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Upcoming Ground Breaking for Confluence Park

May 2016

The San Antonio River Foundation will break ground on Confluence Park on Wednesday, May 11th. Designed by Lake|Flato, Matsys Design Studio and Rialto Studios, Confluence Park is the San Antonio River Foundation’s largest individual project to date and aspires to be San Antonio’s largest outdoor classroom. Confluence Park provides a unique opportunity to celebrate the ecology of our region, demonstrate the value of our natural resources, and foster environmental stewardship and education in a traditionally underserved area adjoining the San Antonio River. With education as its core purpose, Confluence is an intricate teaching tool that will inspire our community to become more involved with the river and practice sustainable habits while gaining a greater understanding of Texas ecotypes.

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Ted Flato Speaking at Cal Poly Hearst Lecture Series

May 2016

Ted Flato is on his way to California. See Ted speak on May 6th at Cal Poly as part of the Hearst Lecture Series hosted by the College of Architecture & Environmental Design. His lecture will focus on artful ways to integrate buildings into the landscape while maintaining authenticity of place. Learn more here. 

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Lake|Flato is Honored with Two COTE Top Ten Project Awards

April 2016

Lake|Flato is honored to have two projects recognized with a 2016 COTE Top Ten Project Award by the AIA Committee on the Environment: The Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion and H-E-B Mueller Market, also the first grocery store to ever receive the award. With an achievement of 10 COTE Top Ten Project Awards in the past ten years, Lake|Flato has received more COTE Top Ten Project Awards than any other firm in the history of the awards program. Learn more about this year's COTE award-winning projects.

 

Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion

This is the perfect example of design excellence and sustainability working hand-in-hand. Elegant bioclimatic response to program and site. The vernacular forms fit the site and are appropriate to the Foundation’s mission of sustainable agriculture. We loved that the design allowed much of the program to function without conditioned interior space. Who needs walls? The architects thought outside of the box. The jury particularly appreciated the clarity of thought, the elegance of the parti, reinforced by a simple palette of locally sourced, low-carbon materials. Beautifully detailed. 

- AIA COTE Top Ten Jurors

 

H-E-B Mueller Market

The jury was happy to see this type of program addressed. This prototype store rethought the energy and water use for a typical supermarket. The store replaced display ice with refrigerated cases, made extensive use of daylighting, and created a large entry vestibule that serves as a thermal buffer between the inside and the outdoors—important in a climate such as Texas. 

– AIA COTE Top Ten Jurors

 

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Hog Pen Creek Residence Wins 2016 AIA Housing Award

April 2016
Hog Pen Creek Residence was one of ten projects recently honored with a 2016 AIA Housing Award. Jurors praised the project as a home that “feels very place-based and perfect for its setting in Texas. An artful composition of nicely detailed masses in a fully cohesive design strategy, with water and nature being primary influences.” See the 2016 AIA Housing Award Winners here.

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AIA Committee on the Environment Recognizes Lake|Flato's Sustainable Design Excellence

April 2016

A report recently released by the AIA Committee on the Environment evaluates Top Ten Project Award winners to assess progress toward COTE’s longstanding goal of “making environmental considerations and sustainable design integral to the practice of architecture.” The report findings reveal that Lake|Flato has received twice as many AIA COTE Top Ten Project Awards than any other firm in the past decade. The study also reveals that Lake|Flato is one of only two firms with projects that have received both an AIA COTE Top Ten Project Award and an AIA Institute Honor award, “the profession’s highest recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture,” more than once. By AIA standards, projects that have won both a Top Ten Award and an Institute Honor Award represent excellence in both design and sustainability. This historic run demonstrates Lake|Flato’s longstanding dedication to an integrated approach that marries design and sustainability into an inseparable whole in pursuit of design excellence.

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Big Bend Fossil Discovery Trail Breaks Ground

March 2016

Work has begun on the Big Bend Fossil Discovery Trail in Big Bend National Park, Texas, which is being designed by Lake|Flato as a sequence of interpretative pavilions nestled within the site; each pavilion will interpret one of four paleontological eras. Led by Partner-in-Charge Andrew Herdeg, FAIA, and Project Architect Graham Beach, AIA, the project will reference the surrounding landscape while articulating the diversity and length of Big Bend’s fossil history. Read more about the project here.

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Lake|Flato to Design Delaware Botanic Gardens Visitor Center

March 2016

Lake|Flato was recently selected to design the visitor center entry pavilion to the new Delaware Botanic Gardens on the Delmarva Peninsula, led by Partner-in-Charge Ted Flato, FAIA, and Project Architect Margaret Sledge, AIA. Sited on a 37-acre waterfront parcel in southeastern Sussex County, Delmarva’s first botanical garden celebrates the coastal plain with a sustainable garden preserving the region’s native landscapes.

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Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children Praised for Universal Design

March 2016

Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children in San Antonio, designed by Lake|Flato, has been lauded by Architectural Record as exhibiting true universal design, extending beyond merely addressing accessibility.  A campus of five buildings, the private auditory/oral school for K-5 students provides a harmonious setting conducive to those with hearing impairments through an optimized signal-to-noise ratio amplifying necessary sounds and eliminating extraneous ones. A calm color palette and connections to the outdoors provide respite for students’ other senses so they can focus their energies on sound. The project was awarded an AIA chapter design award in 2015. Read more here.

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Austin Central Library: A Library of the Future

March 2016

The new Austin Central Library, which broke ground in May 2015, is slated to open in the Spring of 2017. Designed by Lake|Flato in association with Shepley Bulfinch, the library will be an urban destination integrated with the local community and its lush landscape, a part of Austin’s commitment to revitalizing downtown and Shoal Creek. The six-story, 200,000-square-foot library will replace and nearly double the size of Austin’s Faulk Central Library, with features including a rooftop garden, outdoor amphitheater, art gallery, restaurant, cooking demonstration area and abundant community gathering spaces. Equipped with the latest technological advancements and highly innovative sustainable strategies, the new facility will truly be a “library for the future.” Read more here.

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Lake|Flato Designing a TreeHouse Store in Dallas

March 2016

Lake|Flato is currently working on the design of a new Dallas store location for the sustainable home improvement retailer TreeHouse. Having first launched in Austin in 2011, TreeHouse is slated to open its Dallas location--featuring a 25,000 square foot flagship store and a 5,000 square foot satellite boutique--in early 2017. The store will embody TreeHouse’s sustainable mission in design details, natural lighting and choice of materials, with its design intended to serve as a prototype for future TreeHouse flagship stores. The design team will be led by Ted Flato, FAIA, as Partner-in-Charge, and Lewis McNeel, AIA, as Project Architect. Read more here.