THE DOGRUN/2013
The Dogrun
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Architect and Visiting Professor at UTSA College of Architecture, Javier Sanchez, will present at the CoA's Spring Lecture Series tonight at the UTSA Downtown Campus. His lecture, "Building the City: Architectural Insertions in Mexico City," is based on his work as a founding partner and lead designer of the multidisciplinary Mexico City firm, JSa. According to the CoA's website, as Visiting Professor "Sanchez is leading a studio that examines Colonia Atlampa ("where the water divides" in nahuatl ), one of the last remaining underdeveloped portions in the center of Mexico City, which is near...
As many of you know, Lake|Flato has adopted the 2030 Challenge and joined the AIA 2030 Commitment. We are deeply committed to these programs and oppose any efforts to weaken or repeal the provision in EISA Sec. 433 that requires new and majorly renovated federal buildings to meet incremental targets leading to net-zero energy consumption in 2030. We urge your groups, colleagues, and friends to sign on to this letter in support of federal 2030 targets.
Lakeside Retreat, located in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, earned LEED for Homes Certification today! Sustainable features of the home include healthy alternatives to conventional pest control, efficient framing methods used to reduce wood materials, and an energy reduction of 36% over code. We will post a LEED case study for the project on our website soon with more information on sustainability performance metrics. Please stay tuned!
" Early on I couldn't get Sameer's name quite right. Sameer Rayyan, who I initially thought was Ryan Sameer, worked with me on several developer projects last Fall. Our client, Mark Tolley, would refer to him as my Savent (a person of profound or extensive learning; or learned scholar) - He worked day and night on projects such as the Peanut Factory and Carwash projects. Always pleasant, always willing to take on a difficult task, Sameer willingly and enthusiastically would take on any problem thrown his way. A pretty decent cyclist as well, Sameer peddled his way through a 100 mile day...
Can a bus shelter setting become an engaging public place beyond the purpose of waiting for the bus? UT San Antonio School of Architecture is hosting a 3-day charrette this week posing this question and taking the new Tobin Center for the Performing Arts as the site. Six teams of 2-3 UTSA graduate students will each be paired with a young professional mentor (from Lake|Flato and other local firms) to meet and work over the next three days. The goal of the charrette is to explore elements or programs that can be conceived of as integral parts of place-making through the lens of a bus patron or...
At the office we like to get hands-on with potential building materials for our projects. This desire manifests itself often, ranging from placing samples on the office roof for months to see how they weather in the Texas sun (and sometimes forgetting about them) to ordering lots and lots of samples which later become paperweights and odd pencil holders around the office. This week we tested a potential exterior LED light fixture for the Austin Central Library. For our first test (Test 1) we took the fixture on a fieldtrip to the Fullgoods Warehouse which has a perforated metal scrim with...
Our marketing coordinator, Jessica Vonderau, shared a really cool article with me. The study shows that children who bicycle or walk to school, rather than traveling by car or public transportation, perform measurably better on tasks demanding concentration. Having breakfast and lunch also has an impact on performance, but pales in comparison to having exercised on the commute to school.
Located on a 40-acre river-bottom site, the house reuses the steel frame, stair rails and ventilators of a decommissioned cement plant bought for $20,000. Lake|Flato re-erected the 40’ x 80’ steel-framed building into a “Z” shape around existing oak trees. The Story: The Alamo Cement Company was chartered in 1880 and provided cement for decades of construction projects, including the Texas State Capitol. Development of the site in the late 1980’s into the Quarry Marketplace required the dismantling of most of the existing structures. Our clients purchased the smallest of the steel buildings (...
"Jamie’s spirit animal is the Rabbit: she is good-natured, alert, and spontaneous. While landing a magnificent triple Salchow as a girl, Jamie made the brash decision that an easy road to celebrity via sequins and eyeshadow was not for her. The daughter of a culinary guru , Jamie learned to trust her taste and intuition, elevating the lowliest hoagie to haute cuisine by layering kettle chips between the cheese and tomato. She discovered that you can bypass vocational school, pursue an architecture degree over half a decade, and STILL emerge a master welder . Jamie’s journey away from the call...
Last month Cameron and I traveled to Louisville Kentucky to attend the Cyclocross World Championships, which were taking place for the first time ever outside of Europe. It was an amazing and very cold time standing course-side in our muddy rubber boots watching the junior's, women's, and men's races. The experience was great to be so close to the athletes; so close in fact that Sven Nys, the newly crowned men's world champion, splashed mud on Cameron's jacket. She will never wash it.
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