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With the help of Tenna Florian, founding community garden manager and fellow Lake Flatonian, a community garden grows in the Beacon Hill Neighborhood with native plants, vegetables and butterfly garden! A pavilion designed and built by the UT San Antonio College of Architecture enhances the community aspect of the garden and serves as a demonstration of storm water collection. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dp32hWNWWmI
It's time to play matchy-matchy! Check out these side-by-side comparisons of concept renderings and construction photos for SK Ranch, located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. Above: Approaching the Main House. Above: The entry walk to the Main House. Above: From entry, a gallery leads to the Great Room and view to the west beyond. Above: The spacious interior of the Great Room. Above: The kitchen with a breakfast table surrounded by wood slat screens. Above: A view towards the kitchen range wall and Outdoor Living Room beyond. Above: The Outdoor Living Room bridges between the public...
In May I was at the Gulf Coast Green Conference in Houston and ran into former intern, David Dewane and his adorable 10 month old daughter Frita (a.k.a. Fritzy - not sure on spelling). After a bit of parent/baby talk, the conversation drifted toward work. He is now at Gensler, which has supported him in helping his thesis project become a reality. He, along with his wife Rachel (also a former intern) and others, have now launched Libraries Across Africa. Check out their website . Founded in 2010, Libraries Across Africa is a non-profit business whose mission is to empower individuals through...
On Saturday, June 16th, a group of Lake|Flatonians traveled to southern San Antonio to help out Habitat for Humanity. We had the pleasure of working with Woody on 6802 Faithful Drive with everything from cabinet blocking to fixing crooked wall frames. The group left in the afternoon all smiles, caked in sweat, dirt, and sawdust.
David Lake has been selected (from an applicant pool of over 800!) to speak at this year's Greenbuild Conference in San Francisco! David will be joined by Bill Shown, Managing Director of Silver Ventures, Inc., and Darryl Byrd, CEO of SA2020 to lead an education session on San Antonio's redevelopment of its downtown, including the role of the Pearl Brewery Development as an anchor of the River North Plan. This session, titled "Dream It, Map It, Do It: Delivering on a City Vision", will look at the Pearl Brewery Development and River North Plan as a response to a city-wide vision of what San...
In recent years, the June event in the Papay's backyard has come to represent the official start of the Lake|Flato summer season. For those of us approaching middle age it also serves as an annual reminder of how bloated and hairy we are becoming.
Good news! We have new arrivals in the form of three interns and one design architect. From the left: Sameer Rayyan joins us from the MArch program at the University of Virginia. After externing with us over the winter, he is back due to his enjoyment of Taco Truck Fridays. Projects like Hill Country Jacal also may have been reasons why he wanted to work with Lake|Flato. Unfortunately he is the odd one out in a group of UT Austin Longhorns. hook 'em horns \m/ Jacqueline Fisher is here for her BArch residency at the University of Texas and appreciates Lake|Flato's awareness of place and...
"Gus drives a Jeep which makes him a little like John Byrd. Gus also wears a hat which makes him a little like Matt Morris. He went to the University of Washington which makes him a little bit like Matt Wallace, and he's a great guy to have on your team...which means he is nothing like Chris Krajcer." -Steve Raike Hometown: Kerrville, TX [K-Vegas - The heart of the Hill Country] Years at LF: [8 months full-time] + [1 year internship] Current Project: Austin Central Library / Kickapoo Porch House Favorite LF Project: Bartlit Residence / Air Barns / Dog Team Too....so many I want to include......
This past school year a team of 6th grade entrepreneurs / venture capitalists formed a strategic alliance with Lake Flato to work on the design of some major new civic architecture that is being called a "game changer" for the AEC industry. The projects on the drawing boards were conceived and masterminded by the 6th graders with design consulting services performed by Lake Flato. The projects include a rotating restaurant up in a tree with toboggan slides and ice skating rink, a subterranean river walk with a medieval weapons gallery, a mobile cooking school and cupcake shop made of train...
Sammy Hightower joins the Children's Museum team this Friday afternoon to supply a dose of creative whim. This is not the first time Sammy has taken over a Lake Flatonian's computer to get things moving... Who will be her next target??
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