The document discusses various projects by the architecture and design firm Graft including commercial towers, residential buildings, adaptive reuse, hospitality design, institutional projects like museums, art installations, master planning, single family homes, interior design for hospitality and retail, and product design. It also lists collaborators on projects like Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation, which aims to rebuild sustainable homes in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward following Hurricane Katrina, and provides updates on their progress in constructing LEED-certified homes and related infrastructure improvements.
40. BRAD PITT
Actor Philanthropist: Initiator and Visionary
TOM DARDEN, III
Director
TREVOR NEILSON
Senior advisor to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation
GRAFT
Curator
CHEROKEE GIVES BACK FOUNDATION
Philanthropic subsidiary of Cherokee, an investment firm specializing in the acquisition,
remediation and sustainable redevelopment of contaminated real estate
WILLIAM MCDONOUGH + PARTNERS / MCDONOUGH BRAUNGART
DESIGN CHEMISTRY
Consultancy for environmentally intelligent design strategies
79. • 8 families have moved home. 9 are under construction, 10 more are being
permitted.
• 6 of the 8 homes already built are LEED Platinum certified, the other two
are in the application process.
• Our goal is to have 100 homes to be built by the end of this y
g y year.
• Of the first 13, all designs with the exception of one have been selected and
are in process of construction.
• We are looking at engaging in Round Two of MIR.
• We have gone under contract with the City of New Orleans to complete a
zero storm water run off street. We will replace four block faces in our target
street
area.
• Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has touted Make It Right “A model for
the Nation”