A proposal for a New Orleans public school evokes what the designers call the "flows and rhythms" of the neighborhood it would serve. The design, by Charleston, S.C.-based Huff + Gooden Architects, envisions the school as an "urban instrument" to bring the community together.

Flooding from Hurricane Katrina rendered most of New Orleans' nearly 100 public schools unusable, and the U.S. Department of Education estimates as many as 372,000 children from Louisiana and Mississippi are unable to return to their schools.

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