Throughout the south of the United States, hundreds of mid-century “equalization schools”—public schools built in the 1950s following Brown vs. Board of Education in a desperate effort to maintain segregated “separate but equal” schools in southern states—sit empty, abandoned, and crumbling.
Lousiana: The Latest Architecture and News
Remnant Schools: Faculty Are Repurposing the Legacy of Jim Crow Across Louisiana
https://www.archdaily.com/948220/remnant-schools-faculty-are-repurposing-the-legacy-of-jim-crow-across-louisianaAnna Marcum
Holy Rosary Church Complex Succumbs to Redesign
https://www.archdaily.com/280035/holy-rosary-church-complex-succumbs-to-redesignIrina Vinnitskaya
Lamar Advertising Headquarters / Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
Lamar Advertising Headquarters, as designed by Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, is a reaction against the standard office environment; it is a collaborative administrative center, a proposal planned to strengthen a culture of openness. This refurbishment of a 1970’s office building reinvented a segmented office plan into a communal arena to connect colleges and contribute to the communicating whole.
More of Lamar Advertising Headquarters after the break.
https://www.archdaily.com/157353/lamar-advertising-headquarters-eskewdumezrippleSarah Edwards