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After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, the task of rebuilding a devastated city was far from easy. University of Kentucky lecturer Mike McKay felt the need to go and help with a task that was anything but easy: rebuilding the devastated city. McKay moved to Louisiana for two years to lead the architecture school’s Knoa Studio, a program that tasked studios to develop designs for neighborhoods, restaurants, and the city transit system.

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Jean Nouvel to Design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

French architect Jean Nouvel will design this year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, the London gallery has announced.

Since 2010, the Serpentine Gallery has commissioned world’s most renowned architects to design a temporary structure to host summer events. The list includes Zaha Hadid, Frank Ghery, Rem Koolhaas, Toyo Ito, Daniel Libeskind, Oscar Niemeyer, Alvaro Siza + Souto de Moura, SANAA,  danish artist Olafur Eliasson, and several collaborations with Cecil Balmond and ARUP.

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