WORK STUDIO PRESS NEWS << BACK THE BREWERY Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2007 The Brewery redevelopment captures the working spirit brewed at the Pabst complex since 1844. Being careful not to water down the industrial strength beauty of the historic site on the edge of downtown, the landscape armature accentuates the long cavernous streets while reinterpreting workyards as public parks. Built over time, The Brewery will evolve as a new community, celebrating the industrial heritage of PBR within a contemporary city. The new neighborhood was inaugurated with Zilber Park, dedicated to an icon of Milwaukee’s cultural history. The pocket park is small, but built tough to hold up to the giant grain elevators looming over it. This landscape registers the extremes of the northern climate, the seasons marking the cumulative phases of attracting entrepreneurs to invest in this Great Lakes post-industrial city. CLIENTS + COLLABORATORS Towne Investments Development Corporation and Zilber Ltd, developers; Kapur + Associates, Inc., engineers KUDOS Mayor's Design Award, Spaces & Places, 2010 Please Wait © 2021 D.I.R.T. studio

WORK STUDIO PRESS NEWS << BACK BIG MUD New Orleans, Louisiana 2007 - 2009 Operation Paydirt, conceived by conceptual artist Mel Chin, initiated an interdisciplinary coalition to remediate lead contaminated soil in New Orleans, which poisons children at one of the highest rates in the country. The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina exposed the presence of lead soils, beckoning the charge to rebuild the city, from below the ground up, to provide a healthful foundation for citizens to return to. The Operation doubles its efforts as both a fund-raising campaign, led by Chin, and an action plan, Big Mud, that combines art, science and design to remediate over 86,000 sites across the city. Working across scales of a civic imperative, design strategies activate barges, trucks and wheelbarrows, powered by newly trained job krewes, to distribute information and bioremediation ingredients for the cultivation of safe landscapes and healthy neighborhoods. CLIENT + COLLABORATORS Mel Chin, conceptual artist; Howard Mielke, environmental toxicologist; Andrew Hunt, environmental scientist; Tulane Center for Bioenvironmental Research; Lead Lab; Private New Orleans home owners; University of Virginia School of Architecture students KUDOS Funded in part by Transforma Arts Coalition PUBLICATIONS Steward Pickett, et al. editors, Resilience in Urban Ecology and Design: Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities, (New York: Springer, 2013) Please Wait © 2021 D.I.R.T. studio