CREST work complete 03. June 2011
Work on the tenant improvement of the City of Santa Monica's CREST youth sports and education administration office by Touraine Richmond Architects is now complete. Click here to see more photos of the project and read about the transformation.
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FLOAT House defies nature 23. September 2010
UCLA Today features the FLOAT House and the student design-build team
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FLOAT House on Jeopardy! 16. September 2010
The FLOAT House was a question on tonight's episode of Jeopardy! with a category featuring the Make It Right Foundation
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Hope Floats in New Orleans 01. April 2010
David Sokol's article for Architectural Record features the FLOAT House.
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Newark ArtsPark named Finalist 18. November 2009
The Newark ArtsPark, a collaboration between Ryan Whitacre and Cristina Toma, has been named as a Finalist in the Newark Visitors' Center Competition. The project was one of 21 Finalists out of over 200 entries received by the Emerging Professionals / Young Architects Forum of the AIA Newark & Suburban Architects chapter.
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FLOAT House completed 06. October 2009
The FLOAT House, a prefabricated single family home for the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, marked its completion today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The home was designed and constructed for Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation by a seven-member UCLA student design team in conjunction with instructor Thom Mayne and Morphosis Architects. The affordable, LEED Platinum rated home is designed to float should the area suffer another catastrophic flood event. The event was subject to numerous media reports:

NPR's All Things Considered
KCRW's Design and Architecture
The New Orleans Times Picayune (and a video)
WDSU TV - New Orleans
Architectural Record
Jetson Green
Inhabitat
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