Press

For over a decade, regional, local, and national press have recognized Small Center and our partner organizations for contributing to a New Orleans shaped by its residents.

2019

PublicationProject
Pilot program aims to update 1960s housing stock in Terrytown
Nola.com
Terrytown Neighborhood Revitalization Study 

2018

PublicationProject
Sites of Resistance Chronicles New Orleans History of Dissent
The Gambit
Sites of Resistance 
Ride New Orleans: Setting the Transit Agenda
Street Films
Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy 

2017

PublicationProject
Sites of Resistance in New Orleans
WTUL 91.5 FM
Sites of Resistance 
New, More Welcoming Respite Spot at Ozanam Inn
Clarion Herald
Ozanam Inn Day Space 
New Custom-Designed Benches Raise Spirits of Homeless Men at Ozanam Inn
New Orleans Advocate
Ozanam Inn Day Space 
Architecture Students Bring Life to Local Shelter
Tulane University News
Ozanam Inn Day Space 
Adam Savage's Maker Tour: Small Center for Collaborative Design
Tested
Ozanam Inn Day Space 
Ace Hotel, Sophie B. Wright School Among Winners of AIA New Orleans Architecture Awards
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Hollygrove Greenline Shade-Water Pavilion 
Teaming up for a healthier neighborhood
BC/BS
Healthy Tremé Housing Research 
Grow Dat Youth Farm, Tulane City Center
The Design Build Studio: Crafting Meaningful Work in Architecture Education
Grow Dat Youth Farm 

2016

PublicationProject
Affordable Housing Exhibit pops up at Tulane City Center
Gambit
The Cost of Home: Local Models and National Policy for Affordability 

2015

PublicationProject
One Year Later: Where Things Stand With The CBD Transit Hub
Ride New Orleans
Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy 
Parisite Ushers in a New Era of NOLA Skate Culture
Antigravity Magazine
Parisite Skate Park 
Parisite Skate Park Officially Opens in New Orleans
Gambit
Parisite Skate Park 
New Parisite Skateboard Park, a $350,000 Project, Opens Saturday in Gentilly
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Parisite Skate Park 
New Orleans Opens First Official Skatepark in Gentilly Neighborhood
WWLTV
Parisite Skate Park 
Mayor Landrieu Opens New Orleans' First Public Skate Park
WWL
Parisite Skate Park 
How Katrina Sparked a Black Skateboarding Renaissance in New Orleans
Vice
Parisite Skate Park 
First Public Skate Park Comes to Gentilly
WGNO
Parisite Skate Park 
Check It Out: New Orleans Opens Parisite Skate Park -- the First Public Skate Park in City's History
The New Orleans Advocate
Parisite Skate Park 
$350,000 Skateboard Park, 'The Parisite,' Opens in Gentilly
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Parisite Skate Park 
After Katrina, Tulane's Architecture School became a Community Builder
NPR
Magellan Street Garden 
New Orleans Street Performer Guide Looks to Protect Musicians, Clarify Law
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Guide to New Orleans Street Performance 
A Tribute to the Big Chief: Donald Harrison Sr.'s Family Turn Their Yard into a Mardi Gras Indian Cultural Center
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Guardians Institute 
Gonsoulin Cattle Ranch meets Grow Dat Youth Farm at picnic-style party
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
After Katrina, Tulane's Architecture School Became a Community Builder
NPR - WWNO
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
City program breathes life into Bayou Road, one of New Orleans’ oldest thoroughfares
The New Orleans Advocate
Façade Renew 
Bayou Road Buildings Get Facade Improvements
Preservation in Print
Façade Renew 
As New Orleans Recovers, Will The Dew Drop Inn Swing Again?
NPR
Dew Drop Inn 
Creating “Permanently Affordable” Rental Housing in New Orleans
Non Profit Quarterly
2739 Palmyra 
As New Orleans Rents Rise, Nonprofit Creates ‘permanently Affordable’ Apartments
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
2739 Palmyra 

2014

PublicationProject
Ride New Orleans Hosts “Day of Action,” RTA Hosts its Own Press Conference
Gambit
Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy 
Ride New Orleans Calls on RTA to Build a Public Transportation Center in the CBD
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy 
Is a permanent transit hub in the CBD’s Future?
Curbed: New Orleans
Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy 
Group Says RTA Bus Stops Not Up to Par
WDSU
Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy 
Demonstration Leads RTA to Reveal Project Plans
New Orleans City Business
Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy 
Demo Aims to Improve CBD Transit Hub
NOLA Defender
Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy 
Busy Canal Street Bus Stop Lacks Infrastructure for Riders
Gambit
Ride New Orleans Transit Advocacy 
This 7th Ward Skate Park Comes with a Water Management Plan
WWNO
Parisite Skate Park 
Parisite Skate Park Plans Are Set to Roll in Gentilly
Curbed New Orleans
Parisite Skate Park 
New Orleans Parisite Skatepark gets City Planning Commission Approval
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Parisite Skate Park 
Ripping the fabric of a neighborhood — and, with it, the spirit of democracy
The Lens NOLA
L9 Visioning Coalition 
Algiers Vietnamese Community Planning Neighborhood Park
The New Orleans Advocate
Hung Dao Heritage Garden 
Out of Desert Dust, a Miracle on a Shoestring
The New York Times
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
Hurricane recovery gave New Orleans reason to band together to offer more healthful food
The Washington Post
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
Grow Dat’s City Park farm yields an Unexpected Crop; Good Jobs for Youth
The Lens NOLA
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
Grow Dat Youth Farm at City Park teaches leadership through growing
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
New Orleans announces $1 million in business-facelift money for blighted corridors
NOLA.com | The Times Picayune
Façade Renew 
Iconic Central City landmark to be resurrected
Louisiana Weekly
Dew Drop Inn 
Dew Drop Inn to reopen
WDSU News
Dew Drop Inn 
Storytelling Project Fosters Neighborhood Cohesion in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Next City
Cornerstones 
Circle Food Store shuttered after Hurricane Katrina reopens
WWLTV, Eyewitness News
Circle Food Store 
Circle Food Store reopens in the 7th Ward with pomp, circumstance and bell peppers
Gambit
Circle Food Store 
Circle Food Store opens again after eight-year struggle to rebuild
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Circle Food Store 

2013

PublicationProject
With Some Help From Tulane, a Community Garden Sprouts Into a Hub for Learning About Food and the Environment
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Magellan Street Garden 
Fighting Floodwater to Grow A Garden and a Healthy New Orleans
Next City
Magellan Street Garden 
Tulane University Builds Big Chief’s Abode
Offbeat Magazine
Guardians Institute 
Urban Oases
Architectural Record
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
Farm to Class
Green Building and Design
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
Best New Architecture; 5 Blueprints to Success
New Orleans Magazine
Grow Dat Youth Farm 

2012

PublicationProject
The Grow Dat Youth Farm & SEEDocs: Mini-Documentaries on the Power of Public-Interest Design
ArchDaily
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
SeeDocs: Grow Dat Youth Farm
Social Economic Environmental Design Network
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
Grow Dat Youth Farm Nurtures Leaders
WWNO
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
An Urban Farm Puts New Orleans Teens to Work
Citylab
Grow Dat Youth Farm 

2011

PublicationProject
Hollygrove Greenline Plots Improvements
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Hollygrove Greenline Shade-Water Pavilion 
Healthy Foundation
Tulane New Wave
Guardians Institute 
Cultural, health, education programs find home with Guardians Institute’s new building
Tulane Prevention Research Center
Guardians Institute 
Grow Dat Youth Farm nurtures young leaders amid planting
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Grow Dat Youth Farm 
Dirty South: Youth farms keep New Orleans teens in school gardens
Grist
Grow Dat Youth Farm 

2010

PublicationProject
Transforma New Orleans 2005-2010
Jess Garz
Storypod 
Saving Circle Food Store
Tulane New Wave
Circle Food Store 
Circle Food Store Owner Presents Plans to City Council
Louisiana Weekly
Circle Food Store 

2009

PublicationProject
URBANbuild: The Fourth Generation
Dwell
URBANbuild 
An Unsentimental Education
Residential Architect
URBANbuild 
Insurgent Architecture: An Alternative Approach to Design-Build
Journal of Architecture Education
CITYbuild Consortium of Schools 

2008

PublicationProject
Tulane Nears Completion on Third New Orleans House
Architectural Record
URBANbuild 
Giving Shelter: Students Scramble to Design and Construct a New Orleans House
The New York Times
URBANbuild 
'Architecture School': Rebuilding New Orleans on Reality TV
New York The Sun
URBANbuild 
"Architecture School" Reality Show Premieres on Sundance
Inhabitat
URBANbuild 
"Architecture School"
Sundance Channel
URBANbuild 
Charting New Orleans Everday Landmarks
NPR: All Things Considered
Cornerstones 

2007

PublicationProject
“URBANbuild II” Exhibition
Ogden Museum
URBANbuild 
URBANbuild Students Bring Hope to New Orleans
Architectural Record
URBANbuild 
Rebuilding New Orleans, Post Katrina Style
New York Times
URBANbuild 
Reinventing New Orleans
DOMUS 905
CITYbuild Consortium of Schools 

2006

PublicationProject
“URBANbuild I” Exhibition
Ogden Museum
URBANbuild 
URBANbuild.designBUILD studio work
Venice Biennale Exhibition
URBANbuild 
URBANbuild Exhibit
Housing Solutions Summit
URBANbuild 
Project New Orleans
African-American Art Museum in the Treme
URBANbuild 
Design for the Other 90%
Cooper Hewitt exhibition and book
CITYbuild Consortium of Schools