Hosted by Design By Many, the Passive House for New Orleans competition challenged designers to design a single-family dwelling that is sustainable...
New Orleans is a city of neighborhoods, from the leafy live oak lined streets of Uptown to the closely packed shotgun houses and arts and crafts cottages of the Bywater, all radiating out from the hub of the French Quarter, the original imprint of the city. Most first=time visitors tend...
Shotgun Houses are also a favorite subject. Shotgun houses are named for being able to shoot a shotgun shell through the house from the front door to the back without hitting anything along the way. This is because there are no hallways but a progression of rooms. Shotgun homes are gener...
from Creole cottages to shotgun houses, along quiet, narrow streets. What sets the Tremé apart, though, is its history: this is one of the oldest African American neighborhoods in the country, largely settled by free people of color, later housing...
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The best dive bars in New Orleans A sign on a house in the Bywater neighborhood addresses the short-term rental crisis © Bryan Tarnowski / Lonely Planet As houses in the Bywater and other high-demand neighborhoods lay vacant in between weekend rentals, Ciardullo estimated 30,000 families ...
Airbnb and other sites like HomeAway offer up to 4,000 private properties for rent nightly around New Orleans: from former slave quarters and artists' lofts, to Cotton Kingdom-era mansions, sunny Creole cottages and brightly painted "shotgun" houses - narrow homes with rooms connected like rai...
Musings on the renovation of a shotgun single cottage and other adventures of life in New Orleans.
I’ve seen Kasher perform in New Orleans several times since then, and it’s clear his time here has allowed him to hone in on details that would make any local laugh. A more recent joke he did about the ridiculous layout of shotgun houses got a huge response from the room. I think...