As our city spends the next few weeks recovering from Hurricane Ida, Waggonner & Ball is prioritizing the safety of our team and working remotely until our local government determines it safe to return. We are fully operational and digitally accessible to our clients and partners.  The WBAE office managed the storm with minimal damage but unfortunately the […]

Founding Partner David Waggonner has been named a keynote speaker at the American Water Resources Association’s 2021 Annual Water Resources Conference. His lecture entitled In Concord with Nature: planning, building and adapting our coasts, watersheds, and developed landscapes will highlight the firm’s environmental work focused on the infrastructure and spatial identity of water.   More information on the November […]

We’re thrilled to welcome Kaylan Mitchell who joins the firm for the 2021 Fall Semester Design Communication Internship.  Kaylan Mitchell is a Master of Architecture candidate at Tulane School of Architecture in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is currently serving as president of the School of Architecture’s Graduate Government. Kaylan received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Louisiana State University with a […]

Waggonner & Ball’s Ramiro Diaz delivered the keynote at this year’s EPA Region 6 Stormwater Conference. His presentation entitled, In Concord with Nature, Living With Water® in Norfolk, Hampton, Charleston and New Orleans, focuses on the firm’s environmental work, centered on the infrastructure and spatial identity of water. More information on the conference can be found here. Jaime Ramiro […]

We’re thrilled to welcome Natalie Rendleman for a summer internship at WB. Natalie is a rising fifth-year student in the Bachelor of Architecture program at Tulane University. Her architectural interests center on creating equitable spaces and environmentally engaged designs. In her spare time, she enjoys oil painting, gardening, and spending time with her quarantine “pod.”

The Sisters of St. Joseph and Waggonner & Ball’s Mirabeau Water Garden project will be one of the largest urban wetlands in the country, designed to store over 10 million gallons of stormwater runoff to protect Gentilly from flooding. Link: Flood and Sacrifice: How an Old Convent Could Help Save New Orleans

Waterloop is a podcast about water in our lives and on our planet. In this episode Ramiro explains Waggonner & Ball’s Living With Water® approach to design that prioritizes water sustainability, climate resilience, and community livability. He discusses projects including the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, Mirabeau Water Garden, and Dutch Dialogues. Ramiro also […]

Opened last year, the Children’s Museum, completed with Mithun, represents our “Living with Water” concept at the building scale: architecture responsive to climate and water, inspired by landscape and place. The project is sited on a City Park lagoon, part of a water system we are currently analyzing with Batture Engineers to study opportunities for reducing stormwater […]

We’re pleased to introduce Mengning (Xialoan) Lan as the newest addition to our team. Originally from Beijing, Xiaolan is a recent Tulane M.Arch graduate who brings international perspective to our work. Welcome Xiaolan!

We’re excited to share that The Historic New Orleans Collection has received a Louisiana Landmarks Society Excellence in Historic Preservation Award. Congratulations to a visionary client and dedicated team!  2020 Excellence in Historic Preservation Awards