We are pleased to welcome Collin to the office family! A recent graduate of Tulane University School of Architecture and a passionate New Orleanian, Collin’s skills and interests bridge our building design and urban water design practices. He is a native of Boulder County, Colorado. Welcome Collin!

Waggonner & Ball’s additions and renovations to the Sophie B. Wright School were recognized at the AIA National Convention in Las Vegas with a Gulf States Merit Award. From the jury: “A renovation and adaptive reuse that respects the excellent bones of the existing building, revealing its best attributes, and expanding it in a way […]

On Saturday, April 6, The Historic New Orleans Collection will throw open the doors to a $38 million expansion of its museum facilities, offering a significant addition to the French Quarter’s cultural attractions. Located at 520 Royal Street, and made possible in part through generous donations from the institution’s local, national, and international supporters, the […]

Waggonner & Ball is on one of six teams selected for this international effort to tackle the immense climate and water challenges in three cities in Asia: Semarang (Indonesia), Khulna (Bangladesh) and Chennai (India). Our team, “Rising Waters, Raising Futures,” will focus on Chennai. The team is led by our long standing collaborator, Deltares, and […]

Waggonner & Ball is honored to receive an AIA Gulf States Merit Award at the 2018 AIA Conference on Architecture for Green Trees Early Childhood Village at Isidore Newman School. The jury noted “the clarity of diagrams of the context & process of design,” declaring Green Trees “a project that enhances the vernacular of the city.” WBAE […]

Waggonner & Ball was recognized four times at the 2018 AIA New Orleans design awards, with two awards each for the Greater New Orleans Foundation Center for Philanthropy and the Newman School Green Trees Early Childhood Village. The GNOF Center for Philanthropy won the Honor Award for Architecture and the US Green Building Council Louisiana Chapter Honor Award […]

Architectural Record’s latest Innovation Conference focused on ways architecture can improve cities for everyone. Participants included Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic of the New York Times, Rob Rogers, the founder of New York-based Rogers Partners Architects + Urban Designers, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi of Weiss/Manfredi, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, of Los Angeles-based Johnston Marklee & […]

Waggonner & Ball installed “The Garden of Sub-Earthly Delights” for PARK(ing) Day in downtown New Orleans. We focused on a critical but oft-abused and misunderstood piece of shared infrastructure in the urban streetscape: the catch basin. There are 68,092 catch basins in New Orleans, and they are not loved equally. These hard-working pieces of drainage infrastructure […]

Waggonner & Ball created an immersive, site-specific installation called “Ghosts of Net World” for a public performance staged by New Orleans Airlift for the world premiere of New Water Music, composed by Yotam Haber and performed by musicians of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra on a barge and in fishing boats at the Seabrook Boat Launch on […]

Principal David Waggonner was recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Louisiana chapter with the Medal of Honor award at the annual design awards conference in Baton Rouge. This distinction is given to architects who have made a significant contribution to the profession.