Projects
600 Congress Lowyard and Highyard
Landing at Keowee Springs
High Meadow Residence
Trinity University Dicke Hall + Business and Humanities District
Hotel Saint Augustine
Cedar Park Public Library
University of Pennsylvania Amy Gutmann Hall
The Saint June
Havens on Fanny Hill
North Fork Residence
2001 Odyssey
The Prow
Canopy Hotel San Antonio
Madrone Mesa Ranch
House Zero
Scottsdale Civic Center
Lavaca House
Austin Central Library
Front Range Retreat
Best Quality Daughter
Hotel Magdalena
LC Ranch
Kiawah Residences
Alexander Vineyards Tasting Room
Pearl Brewery Redevelopment
Indian Springs School
Fall Creek Residence
The Universities at Shady Grove Biomedical Sciences & Engineering Education Facility
San Antonio Federal Courthouse
Make Ready Food Hall
Miller Porch House
The Holdsworth Center
Marine Education Center
Confluence Park
Music Lane Development
Lake Flato San Antonio Office
Penn State University Pollinator and Bird Garden
River Bend Residence
Lone Star District
Trappey Riverfront District
Reel ’em Inn
Equinox Austin
Epoch Tasting Room
Will Smith Zoo School
Georgia Tech West Village Commons
Soho House Austin
The Awty International School
Marfa Ranch
Bridge House
Bluffview
Ryerson Education Facility
Ishawooa Mesa Ranch
Courtyard House
Georgia Tech Krone Engineered Biosystems Building
Montgomery Park
Verde Creek Ranch
Knox College Whitcomb Art Center
Phil Hardberger Park Urban Ecology Center
Park Tudor School
The Lodge at Gulf State Park
Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion
Soto Building
San Antonio Children’s DoSeum
Palmetto Bluff Moreland Village Outfitter Building
Braden Town Center
Poneaux at Inglewood Farm
Canopy Hotel Austin
Bakery Lorraine
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation
Carraro Residence
Medina Community Library Rodney Camp Pavilion
Cornell University Atkinson Hall
Witte Museum & Mays Family Center
St. Vincent Mixed-Use Building
Alamo Beer Brewery
University of Denver Burwell Center for Career Achievement
YETI® Flagship
Portal San Fernando
Briscoe Western Art Museum
Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston
Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children
Francis Parker School
Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School for Girls
1221 Broadway
Blue Lake Retreat
Naples Botanical Garden Visitor Center
Ulery’s Lake Cabins
Hill Country Jacal
River Camps at Crooked Creek
SK Ranch
Mill Springs Ranch
Vibrant Fairview
Texas A&M University Student Services Building
Houston Zoo Cypress Circle Cafe & Wetland
Hog Pen Creek Residence
Margaret Hance Park
Big Bend Fossil Discovery Exhibit
Arizona State University Polytechnic Academic District
Epoch Ascension Winery
New Mexico School for the Arts
Saxum Winery
Hotel San José
Arizona State University Health Services Building
Hotel San Cristóbal
Civic/Cultural
Through our designs, we seek to reinforce how a community uses public architecture to express its unique values and highest aspirations. Our portfolio strives to capture the spirit of a place by expressing the intangible aspects of culture while balancing the tangible goals of building performance with adherence to budget and schedule. Whether a landmark building or a simple utilitarian structure, each of our projects embraces its climate and adapts with ease. Working alongside communities, our design process explores solutions grounded by a reverence for a region’s local building traditions, cultural history, and environmental context.
Eco-Lodging & Communities
Fostering meaningful connections to the landscape that inspire positive change and environmental conservation is at the core of Lake Flato’s work and approach to Eco-Lodging & Communities. We craft nurturing and restorative spaces that serve as gateways to nature, inspire environmental stewardship, and foster communal experiences and vibrant communities.
Higher Education
Through an integrated and collaborative process, Lake Flato seamlessly marries the demanding programmatic requirements of higher education facilities with environmental and campus context to realize unique learning environments. Our designs create cohesive and pedestrian-oriented campuses that foster healthy social and academic communities. We employ sustainable strategies that result in high performance buildings that reflect the unique culture of each institution.
Hospitality
Lake Flato’s designs for hotels, lodges, resorts, restaurants, breweries, and wineries grow from a comprehensive understanding of the local cultural and environmental context of each place. We leverage the natural environment by connecting visitors to landscapes that create unique restorative experiences that refresh the body and mind. In collaboration with our clients, we craft an authentic identity and purposeful connection between a destination and its architecture, interiors, and site.
K–12 Schools
Primary and secondary school education is a transformative time in the lives of students. We welcome our role in creating environments that celebrate and complement this transformation. Lake Flato approaches each school design in unique ways, searching for appropriate solutions that yield a purposeful connection between the school’s pedagogy, campus, and architecture. Our designs balance visceral connections to place and culture with the science of high performance learning environments. By creating more cohesive campus communities, we seek to enhance each’s student academic, personal, and social growth.
Mixed Use
By carefully studying environmental, cultural, and urban contexts, Lake Flato creates walkable, human-scaled urban cores that link back to nature. We create vibrant destinations by designing districts that maximize live, work, play adjacencies and round-the-clock activity. The protection of our natural and historic resources and the adaptive reuse of existing structures form the foundation of our approach to sustainable mixed-use design.
Multi-Family
Lake Flato is committed to designing sustainable places that attract people, feel authentic, are responsive to climate, and use regional materials. Multifamily housing projects create a 24/7 presence in every community. Residents and tenants animate each development and are pivotal to every project’s success.
Office/Workplace
In an era of rapidly changing technology and evolving work models, workplaces should facilitate change and adaptation. Lake Flato’s inspiring workplace designs are responsive to varying working styles and tailored to the specific needs and cultures of each company or organization. We understand how office employees use space effectively today and how to provide flexibility and residual value for tomorrow.
Parks & Gardens
The physical and intellectual pleasure of parks and gardens arises from immersive experiences, alone or in community. Lake Flato offers extensive experience developing projects that are both rational and poetic: places that celebrate the local landscape and culture while providing respite and beauty, all while utilizing cost effective, practical design solutions.
Porch House
Lake Flato’s Porch House represents the merger of efficiency, thoughtful design, and innovative construction techniques for residential projects. The Porch House concept was developed as an alternative to the firm’s custom home practice and leverages pre-designed modules to reach a broader audience through scalable options. Time, energy, and resources are conserved through a process that unites the simplicity of pre-designed, vernacular architectural forms with custom porches and covered connections.
Ranches
Wide open landscapes invite people to fully engage with the land and the seasonal changes in often unconventional ways. To fully appreciate the landscape, outdoor movement between buildings is encouraged with covered walkways, porches, and open paths. Practicality, low maintenance, and a refreshing simplicity are often at the heart of enduring ranch design.
Restaurant/Retail
Lake Flato designs a wide-range of vibrant culinary and retail spaces within iconic mixed-use districts, from authentic local restaurants, wineries, and breweries to experiential retail spaces that reflect the mission of each brand, company, and culinary experience.
Residential
Lake Flato has gained recognition for designing houses that resonate with the inherent nature of each site, respond to the region’s climate, and connect its inhabitants to the natural environment. We listen to each client’s dreams and aspirations and carefully craft a design through an inclusive and collaborative process.
Science & Technology
Science & Technology programs offer unique opportunities for innovation and community building, resulting in dynamic centers of activity around evolving educational pedagogies, technologies, and research initiatives. In the age of rapidly developing technology, Science & Technology spaces should be designed with intentionality, simplicity, durability, flexibility, and visibility as key contributors to their success.
Visitor/Nature Centers
Lake Flato is a leader in the master planning and design of visitor and nature centers throughout the country. Our design process starts with a comprehensive understanding of the environmental and cultural context and employs sustainable strategies unique to each region and site. Our designs seek to mend and enhance the land, to educate the public, and to foster a sense of connectedness between visitors and the natural environment.
Architecture
Lake Flato’s architectural designs respond to the culture and climate of each unique place. Our design ethos evolves from an appreciation for pragmatic solutions to vernacular architecture, the honesty of modernism and the context of our rich and varied landscape. With a palette of regional materials, we create buildings that are tactile and modern, environmentally responsible and well-crafted. By employing sustainable strategies in a wide variety of building types and scales, we design architecture that conserves energy and natural resources while creating high performance buildings.
Interiors
Lake Flato’s interiors are an extension of the firm’s place-based design ethos. Our integrated design process embeds creative collaborations with artisans, artists, local craftspeople, and designers to yield modern interiors that cohesively meld with their exteriors, provide a diversity of scales and spaces, and impart personal connection. Our attention to detail is imbued in our careful study and selection of materials, furnishings, and fixtures. We respond to nature’s patterns and rhythms through biophilic designs that provide a porosity of indoor-outdoor connections, fresh air, natural light, and views—all contributing to the health and wellness of our clients.
Urban Design & Planning
With a dedicated urban design and planning studio, Lake Flato carefully studies environmental, cultural, and urban contexts to create walkable, human-scaled urban districts. The rigor of our place-based analysis ensures the soul and character of a setting, and the voices of its inhabitants, are revealed and upheld over time. By exploring the intimate relationships between community, place, environment, and historical contexts, we create unique environments that possess a compelling authenticity and beauty.
Campus Planning
Campus planning provides a versatile road map for Lake Flato’s campus designs across the country. We begin by providing a careful analysis of the existing campus fabric and advance confidently only after drawing out the unique character of a place. We strive to honor the legacy of the institutions we serve through our efforts to understand and fortify the distinct qualities of their built and natural environments.