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