Whether it retains its developmental shape, with that warm, snaky strength of flow recalling the great bends and curves of the Mighty Mississippi itself is yet to be determined. But what is almost certain, even at the design stage, is its future place among the premier developments in the city.
This year Trahan gets to put his lucrative sports stadium work aside in favor of more inventive, design-heavy projects. With the Manship family’s property on River Road, he gets to position yet another strategic domino of modern design downtown.
“The idea is to question whether we as a city have built using the river and the location to inform the architecture,” he says of his dramatic design proposal. “To know that you can walk into a building every day and find a different experience because it has a certain spatial quality, I find that level of mystery exciting.”
