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We are pleased to introduce four new L|Fer's who come to us from across the country. Seema Kairam joins us most recently from San Francisco, where she was teaching an architecture studio at UC Berkeley with Deborah Berke. Originally from Pelham, NY, Seema received her MArch from Yale. She recently took a roadtrip from California to Texas, making many stops along her way to Lake Flato. Check out her awesome pictures in her first dogrun post, Destination Lake Flato . Maite Bermudez is our newest architecture intern from University of Texas at Austin. Maite was born and raised in Mexico City...
Wednesday July 10 th , winners will be announced for the San Antonio Low-Impact Development Design Competition with an awards dinner at the Pearl Stable. This competition, hosted by the San Antonio Land/Water Sustainability Forum, serves to draw attention to low-impact development solutions in our hometown, where the population is expected to double by 2050. Entrants were comprised of professional design teams who were given the option of one of three projects on a site in San Antonio including an urban redevelopment at Hemisfair Park, a green roadway on Evers Road, and a multi-family mixed-...
There is always some portion of my brain that is constantly spinning, trying to find opportunities for a good road trip. So after I accepted the job at Lake|Flato, my first thought was, which route are we going to drive? We did the first few hours of the drive on I-5 through California. But after hooking off around Bakersfield, we were not going to see another interstate until I-10 in Texas. I've always loved this drive through the Mojave Desert, nothing for miles. Meet my travel companion, Anya, a friend from SF who I convinced to tag along for the drive (she flew back when we got to Texas...
On August 1st AIA San Antonio will be presenting the 3rd Annual Sustainable Urban Development Luncheon. Chaired by Lake|Flato's own Tenna Florian at Lake|Flato's own Briscoe Western Art Museum. The subject of the luncheon will be Architecture 2030: The Rise of 2030 Districts . The event's keynote speaker will be Architecture 2030's founder and CEO Ed Mazria . Mazria is an award winning architect who is committed to making the field of architecture more responsible and more sustainable. The building sector is, after all, responsible for nearly half of all U.S. energy consumption and greenhouse...
Corey Baby by David Lake (Loosely inspired by Sherry, The Four Seasons) Co oh oh oh reee bay yea beee Coreeeee Leamoneeee you need to work all nite long all nite long NOW Co oh oh ree just do it my way my way,my way, my way Don't give me no lip right NOW Photo pho-to, pho-to shop it out all nite all nite all nite all nite Co oh oh oh ree Corey bay yea bee Coreee Leamoneee We will miss you (Not!) when u is in New York New York staying up all nite all nite working for lesser wanna bees wanna bee greats wanna bee greats OK Won't you work out today won't you work out today do your lunges your...
I recently took a trip home and visited some of the sites that were devastated by May's round of tornadoes. The most talked about tornado struck Moore May 20th, moving about 200 miles per hour and spanning 1.3 miles wide. The day before, a tornado touched ground in Shawnee. May 30th and 31st experienced another round of tornadoes which hit Broken Arrow, El Reno and Oklahoma City. The El Reno tornado was moving at 300 miles per hour and was 2.6 miles wide - the widest tornado recorded in U.S. history. It is a surreal experience to walk around the aftermath of these huge storms. The disaster...
We'd like to introduce two new LFers who have just completed their first two weeks! Josh Nieves , our newest student intern, and Rob Lingo , our newest intern architect, are helping out our residential studio. Josh joins us from Judson University in Chicago, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts and Architecture and will complete his Master's degree in 2015. He is originally from Hopewell Junction, New York. Currently, his favorite Lake|Flato project is 1221 Broadway apartments. One interesting fact about Josh is that he ate a Guinea Pig in Ecuador - he insists the cuisine in San Antonio is...
In case you haven't heard yet, back in April 2013 our very own Pearl Brewery/Full Goods Warehouse was awarded an AIA COTE Top Ten Award. The award is given by the American Institute of Architects to the top ten most sustainable projects across the country. We're certainly very proud to be on the list beside so many names we admire. There was an especially interesting post in Gizmodo about what elements set each winner apart. Some of these elements included Living Machines, 100% on site renewable energy production, energy meters in every classroom, or in our case it was "energy surfing". Yeah...
The San Antonio Book Festival and the Library Foundation will host Alfredo Corchado, author of Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness next Monday, June 24 . The event will be a discussion led by Corchado and author of Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club , Benjamin Alire Saenz. The event will be held at the Central Library on 600 Soledad. Reception and book sales start at 6:00pm, followed by the program at 6:30pm. It is free and open to the public. About the Author: Alfredo Corchado , Mexico bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News , is a...
"While some may be intimidated by Oli’s tattoos or his silent demeanor, his British accent or the way he effortlessly pulls off a pair of new cowboy boots with skinny jeans, we here at Lake|Flato found him to be one of the nicest guys on the planet. We gave him the nickname “sweet angel baby”, and named our kickball team after him. Oli has always been quick to jump to lend a hand, whether helping manage the materials library, staying late to help out with a project deadline, building an arena out of cans for the food bank, or mentoring our high school intern. His enthusiasm for learning new...
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