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Big news -- A 10.2 kW photovoltaic array will be installed on the roof of our office within the next week! The PV panels will be installed in a 30' x 34' area on the garage roof, where the solar resource is greatest. The CPS Energy rebates and federal tax credit for the array made the payback really speedy. In addition to a great payback equation, the array will bolster our efforts to earn LEED EBOM certification for the office and will be a great opportunity for us to all learn more about how this technology works and performs.
Third Street Grackle team captains, Brian Comeaux and Rebecca Bruce, unveiled a new cycling kit design at Ocho at Havana last night. Special thanks to all the sponsors, including Lake Flato, for supporting the team. Riders are training hard in this heat and are ready to begin fundraising towards the $50,000 goal for Multiple Sclerosis. Stay tuned for details on how to order your very own kit!
Some of our dapper young* men sported their ties this Tuesday in recognition of the intern who brought it to us: Thomas Johnston. He along with Nathan Geller (yearning for a different tie) and Kristin Walsh are saying their final goodbyes this Friday. We will miss them but are excited to see their successes in graduate school and beyond. Thanks for being great elements of the Lake|Flato team! *young is as one feels, not a number
Say hello to Karla Edwards, previously Lake|Flato intern Karla Wallace from summer 2009-2010 and an alumni of Rice University. She has hit the ground running on Camana Bay. Her favorite Lake|Flato project is Armstrong Oil & Gas because of its cool strategies in adaptive reuse, like removing the enclosure in the middle of the building in order to form a courtyard. Along with architecture, she loves chemistry and once considered going into art restoration. Welcome, Karla!
Lake Flatonians Ashley Heeren, Jamie Sartory, Grace Bowdewyns, and Kristin Walsh recently volunteered their skills to the Lighter! Quicker! Cheaper! community charrette joining teams to design small scale place-making interventions at a number of public sites throughout San Antonio. One of the proposals will be selected for further development and implementation by the city. You can catch a glimpse of the proposals and vote here for your favorite, as well as listen to inteviews with Ashley and Jamie expounding upon their proposals. Projects include a street closure between two parks, a bat...
L|Fers drawing L|Fers... We practiced our drawing skills as well as our modeling skills... strike a pose! Take a look at the masterpieces from this week's drawing session below! Join us next week if you missed out... or else we might make you plank...
Frog Hill, a 3,655 s.f. residence in Washington, Connecticut, has achieved certification under the LEED for Homes Program! This was accomplished through exemplary use of environmentally preferable building materials and pest control alternatives, and a design that is predicted to perform 35% better than code based on energy simulation and diagnostic pressure testing of the home after construction. Among the home's energy-conserving strategies is a warm radiant concrete floor that is also heated through the solar gain of the windows in winter, shown ABOVE Congratulations to the project team...
Last week we had our first life-drawing class here at Lake|Flato! Starting with a longer 8 minute pose, we gradually worked our way down to 10 seconds. The goal of this kind of exercise is to capture the essence and overall gesture of what you see. Below is a sampling of the drawings folks created. We will be doing this every week, space and schedule permitting. Hope to see you next time!
Today at the office we bid a fond farewell to Cameron Smith's 1990 Oldsmobile 98 Regency. The car has been a fixture of retro-grouch coolness in the LF garage for the past seven years. As the car is now older than several of the office interns and the ac recently went out it is time to say goodbye to this flagship of the 1990 Oldsmobile lineup. Take the Farewell Olds Quiz after the images: 1. Cameron was how old when her parents brought the olds home new from the dealer? a. 11 b. 14 c. 25 2. Cameron uttered the following when she first laid eyes on the olds: a. "Awesome car; I love coat of...
Chinese poetry, and the poets that write them, have always held a high level of reverence in Chinese cultural traditions. Inspired by his current visit to the Middle Kingdom, our own inhouse L|F poet laureate, David Lake, takes a shot at this ancient art. His verses from the abstract comes to you...unedited! Tianjin Park Today with Kongjian Reflected self at Tianjin park Saw summer palace yesterday Off to forbidden city tomorrow Great wall Ming tombs Saturday Monday I take train to Suzhou Thursday hanzhou Sunday shanghai Turenscape office Tuesday fly to Seattle And there you go, some profound...
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