appendix 10 part 4

selected photographs

demolition of the rivergate, 1995
by abbye a. gorin

	1. 18 December 1994 The original Rivergate plaque located at entrance No. 2 on Canal Street and Convention Center Boulevard. The building was dedicated 30 April 1968.
	2. 29 January 1995 View of the beginning of the demolition as seen from Canal Street and Convention Center Boulevard.
	3. 19 February 1995 View of machinery chewing into the concrete parapet at Poydras Street and Convention Center Boulevard. Bracing of the building is identical to the support method used during construction.
	4. 19 February 1995 View of the Rivergate stripped of its parapet, Canal Street and Convention Center Boulevard. The illegally destroyed urban park, Place de France, is in the foreground.
	5. 6 March 1995 View of the entrance to the underground parking garage. North Hall has been leveled. The Aquarium of the Americas can be seen in the background; Saks Fifth Avenue in One Canal Place, left.
	6. 19 March 1995 View of the completely destroyed porte-cochere exposing the giant barrels.
	7. 19 March 1995 The cityscape looking down Poydras Street, the Superdome in the far distance. The Rivergate and the Superdome were two anchor points in the city plan, 1960s.
	8. 26 March 1995 Aerial view of the demolition landscape as seen from the high-rise parking garage of One Canal Place.
	9. 2 April 1995 View of the support braces as the giant reinforced concrete barrels are brought down.
	10. 13 April 1995 Aerial view of Louisiana politics of destruction from the high-rise parking garage of One Canal Place.
	11. 13 April 1995 View of the destruction from South Peters Street. The World Trade Center is in the background.
	12. 13 April 1995 View of the final phase of the destruction.
	13. 13 April 1995 Through an opening that was once the Rivergate is a view of the Hibernia Bank Building, once the tallest building in New Orleans.
	14. 13 April 1995 View of the remains of the avant-garde masterpiece.
	15. 18 April 1995 The last remaining vestige of the Rivergate.