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“Each day I start my morning routine sitting down to breakfast at a RAD table outside under the giant pecan tree. The table’s beautiful craft and obsession to detail are evident even when groggily crunching on my granola. Ryan Anderson’s work transcends the industrial steel material palette he employs. RAD’s furniture has a lightness and sophistication while still being simple and comfortable. The steel creations are spare and elegant while still being burly enough to stand up to being outdoors in the Texas landscape. Working with Ryan and getting to know his knowledgeable team has been very...
On a recent friday, some of us from the office gathered for what's known as Peanut Gallery for the Baker Preserve residence with Cody Knop. Graham Beach defines the office Peanut Gallery as "Designer Happy Hour". This is everyone's opportunity to get a glimpse of the project and provide feedback to the team as they move forward. While the design conversation is always stimulating, peanuts are a must, and beer is a must. Karla Greer describes the Baker Preserve as located on an untouched site in Austin that has been used by hikers enjoying the cool spring fed creek, wildlife and trails through...
On Saturday April 20 th at 8pm COTE (AIA Committee on the Environment) Cinema will be hosting a free screening of the documentary Deep Green at Lambert Beach in Brackenridge Park. The film focuses on possible solutions to global warming rather than simply diagnosing the problem. So hop on a bus, a bike, or a sidewalk, grab some friends, and some lawn chairs and join us at the park! Food and drinks will be available for purchase from some of San Antonio’s mobile vendors. The screening is following a clean-up of the park’s pump house from 10am-12pm. Contact Carlos Cruz carlos [at]...
Roadcut n. A cut through a hill or mountain for the purposes of building infrastructure through it, rather than over it. I'm not the only member of my family fascinated by roadcuts. On family car trips growing up, my father would stop at roadcuts to scour them for fossils. Sometimes he would successfully return to the car with multi-million year old sea urchins or shark teeth; other times only with disappointment that the formation he was seeking had disappeared under the asphalt at the preceding mile marker. I have always been enamored by the appearance and physical attributes of the roadcut...
"Don't let Matthew's quietness fool you, it must be osmosis from Bill and Rand. His sharp eye for detail and strong graphic sensibility are equally balanced by his smart questions and wonderful attitude. I also love his last name, just say it: Hlavinka!" - Vicki Yuan " Taking cues from James Bond, Hlavinka prefers his martinis shaken, not stirred. He only speaks when it's necessary (unfortunately, not with an English accent). His perfectly manicured beard rivals that of Ron Swanson's moustache. He wears refreshingly distinguishable attire (a splash of color in a room full of architects can be...
Lake|Flato is fortunate to have work at amazing sites around the country (and beyond), and so our project teams often get to bring home wonderful new experiences and discoveries about places, whether visiting for the first time or revisiting them in greater depth. As one of those lucky traveling project teams, Matt Morris and I recently gained a fresh fondness for Louisville, the site of an independent school for which we developed a master plan over the past few months (we’ll blog about the actual design work in a future post—this post is for bourbon, bats, bridges and the derby!). To start...
We'd like to welcome our two most recent transplants, Megan Toma and Cotton Estes ! Megan joins us from North Carolina, where she received her Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees from North Caronlina State University. She loves horses - riding, show jumping, and competing when she has the time. When she is not riding, Megan loves drawing/painting/water coloring/pastels. Seriously, you should see this girl's work! Cotton grew up in Jamestown, Rhode Island, and received her Bachelor degree in Environmental Studies and Visual Art from Bowdoin...
The "Air Barn" was designed to provide a habitat for the client's string of polo ponies; in addition to shelter, each barn provides food and water for up to 12 ponies. The composition of two traditional open “pole-barn” structures, with deep roof overhangs, creates the housing portion of these barns. Solid shed “saddlebag” forms flank each end, which contain tack and feed rooms. Originally there was a single barn, but as construction started the second barn was added, which is how it became the plural “Air Barn s ”. . . "Why build one when you can build two for twice the price"- quote from SR...
I made a recent trip to Clarksdale, Mississippi to stay at the Shack Up Inn and listen to the Blues in the old juke joints in the famed Mississippi Delta. Nearby are the building remnants of Dockery Farms , where over four hundred african-american and sharecropper families worked in the cotton fields. After a hard days work, some would gather to give birth to the Delta Blues. The central figure at Dockery was Charlie Patton who influenced the legendary Robert Johnson, Chester "Howlin’ Wolf" Burnett, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, and David "Honeyboy" Edwards. The wood and corrugated metal buildings...
There were big rumblings in the San Antonio over the last few days as some severe weather moved through the area and for any budding meteorologists there has been plenty to see. The following images are from various hailstones that fell in the Alamo Heights Sunday evening area courtesy of Bailey and Lauren Raike who risked life and limb to retrieve them. As you can see in the attached images the hailstones come in many shapes and sizes from the typical spheroidal pellet to the almost snowflake like structure. Hail forms in strong thunderstorm clouds, particularly those with intense updrafts,...
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