Another home owned by Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation will reportedly be demolished in New Orleans.
The city of New Orleans posted a "Notice of Emergency Demolition" on the vacant home, which is located at 1826 Reynes Street, claiming the building was "in imminent danger of collapse and/or threat to life," NOLA.com reports.
Pitt's Make It Right Foundation is a nonprofit with a focus on providing affordable housing to New Orleans families displaced during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. However, many of the homes have since experienced construction problems, such as leaks and rotting wood, that made them uninhabitable.
The Lower Ninth Ward house scheduled for demolition was designed by British architect Sir David Adjaye, the first Black architect to receive the 2021 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, who is one of several "starchitects" picked by the foundation to design homes in the area. The home was built in 2011 and sold for $130,000, before being vacated two years later, NOLA reports.
The home was lifted off the ground and featured a large rooftop terrace that can be accessed from the second story. Photos shared by NOLA show the building has been boarded up, has siding peeled off or become blackened with rot and has part of its roof sagging due to deteriorated supporting posts.
Another Make It Right home located on Derbigny Street was demolished in 2018 after neighbor complaints, NOLA reports.
Other notable architects who were involved with the nonprofit include Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Shigeru Ban, KieranTimberlake and Alejandro Aravena.
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