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 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With a brass band accompaniment, developers in this city's devastated Lower 9th Ward celebrated the start of construction Thursday on an environmentally friendly new home, based on the winning design in a competition started by Brad Pitt.
Bundles of hay were used to outline the site of the first house, which will serve as a model home and visitor center while construction of other houses is under way. The first house is expected to be completed in August — around the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
The home will be made with energy-saving materials such as metal roofing and recycled textiles.
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