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Josey Pavilion Honored with Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award

September 2016

The Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion has been honored with the prestigious 2016 American Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. The American Architecture Awards program, now in its 22nd year, is the nation’s highest public award given by a non-commercial, non-trade affiliated, public arts, culture and educational institution. Josey Pavilion was among 75 shortlisted from nearly 400 buildings across varying project types and building scales. In December, 2016, The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies will present a special exhibition of all awarded buildings in New American Architecture at Contemporary Space in Athens, Greece and Instanbul, Turkey. See all of the projects, here.

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UT El Paso Campus Transformation Achieves World's First SITES Certification

August 2016
The University of Texas at El Paso’s Campus Transformation project recently earned the world’s first official SITES Silver Certification awarded from the Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI). The certification recognizes the project for its sustainable achievement, taking into account innovations such as soil, water and vegetation designs, transformation of unusable spaces, and implementation of sustainable landscapes. Lake|Flato collaborated with Ten Eyck Landscape Architects to create pedestrian walkways and greenspaces that knit together campus buildings.  Read the full article.

Salt Lick BBQ Owner to Develop Driftwood Community

August 2016

Lake|Flato will be designing a boutique lodge, spa and winery on a new 540-acre Driftwood Development community 30 miles southwest of downtown Austin that will include 215 acres of open space along two miles of Onion Creek frontage, 80 acres of vineyards, 9 miles of hiking/biking trails, a commercial center, and single-family homes. The Dripping Springs property, where Central Texas Salt Lick BBQ is located, is a longtime family-owned property of Salt Lick BBQ owner Scott Roberts. Roberts is committed to sustainable standards and practices that will help preserve the land for future generations. Read the full article.

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San Antonio Express News Showcases Homes of Lake|Flato Architects

August 2016

San Antonio Express-News peeked inside the private residences of nine local architects, including the homes of Lake|Flato architect Ted Flato and designer Cotton Estes. Older home renovations are a common theme among these local designers, who expend so much of their energy designing clients’ visions from the ground up that they are often more likely to take satisfaction in repurposing and customizing existing structures.

Tour Ted Flato's home

Tour Cotton Estes' home

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NBU Headwaters at the Comal Breaks Ground

August 2016
New Braunfels Utilities recently broke ground on its multi-million-dollar ecological revitalization project in New Braunfels, TX. Designed by Lake|Flato, the project will revitalize the former wastewater station at Headwaters at the Comal, transforming more than 16 acres of asphalt into immersive native landscape and serving as a living demonstration of sustainable practices. The new $23 million facility will include gardens, trails, outdoor classrooms, overlooks wetlands. Read more about the project.

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Architectural Digest Highlights Josey Pavilion for its Sustainable Architecture

August 2016

“Practices like AD100 firm Lake|Flato are leading the charge with comprehensive design philosophies that go beyond LEED certification to answer fundamental questions about how and why we build responsibly. The Texas-based firm perhaps best exemplifies this in its design for the Dixon Water Foundation, the first Living Building Project in the Lone Star State.” Read the full article.

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Dallas TreeHouse Featured in Inc. Magazine

July 2016

TreeHouse’s second retail store, which just broke ground in Dallas, is being heralded by Inc.com for its projected net-zero energy costs—an unprecedented first for a big-box retailer in Texas, as well as for any home improvement store of its kind nationwide. Lake|Flato is leading the design, championing sustainable energy and conservation strategies that will reduce TreeHouse’s power bills to nothing. During the day the 25,000-square-foot building will be lit almost entirely by natural light, facilitated in large part by generous clerestory windows, while solar arrays on a sawtooth roof will maximize energy from the sun. The design ultimately seeks to reflect the same environmentally friendly values and beautiful design TreeHouse encourages for its clientele. Read the full article here.

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MATCH Featured in Houston Chronicle

July 2016

"We wanted the architecture to be a background for unique experiences and diverse tenants." Ryan Jones talks with the Houston Chronicle about the efforts that went into designing The Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston. Funded by a coalition of private and public donors, MATCH serves as a model for a new type of grassroots-led public/private development. Centrally located, the center is designed to foster a “critical mass” of shared creativity between small to mid-sized art groups. Flexible spaces adapt to both practice and performance spaces that accommodate theater, dance and visual arts. MATCH’s adaptability between performance types supports the local art scene by allowing performance groups to rent space on an as needed basis, contributing to Houston’s vibrant and diverse arts culture. Read more about the making of MATCH.

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LC Ranch Featured in Mountain Living Magazine

July 2016
LC Ranch was featured recently in Mountain Living Magazine. Situated between the high rolling hills of native short grass prairie and the lush riparian valley of the Galletin River, the Montana “summer camp” serves as a vacation retreat for friends and family. Crafted from a simple material palette of concrete, steel and wood, LC Ranch pays homage to the history of the region. In the Mountain Living story, Interior Designer Madeline Stuart converses with David Lake about their collaboration on this summery retreat. Read the story.

Lake|Flato Wins Walk & Roll Challenge Award

July 2016

Lake|Flato was awarded 2nd place in the small organization category for the eleventh annual Walk & Roll Challenge. Run by the Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG), the Walk & Roll Challenge is held every May, the second month of the “ozone season” when air pollution typically spikes in the San Antonio area. The event’s goal is to reduce air pollution impact by encouraging residents to drive less and take fewer individual trips in motorized vehicles. This year 2,484 area residents collectively took more than 94,000 walking, biking, busing or carpooling trips to save more than 1.2 million vehicle miles traveled and more than 3.5 tons of “smog” components from the air. The AACOG issued awards to regional businesses and organizations with the most recorded commuting trips taken by employees without being a single occupant in a motorized vehicle.