2014 Design Awards
SK Ranch by Catherine Gavin
Project SK Ranch, Center Point Client Sara Story Architect Lake|Flato Architects Design Team Brian Korte AIA; Vicki Yuan, AIA; Ted Flato, FAIA; Betsy Johnson, AIA; Cameron Smith, AIA, David Ericsson; Amanda Kronk Photographer Robert Reck Photography
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efined, well resolved, and serene: SK Ranch makes a quick, deep impression. Perched on a 150-acre boomerang-shaped mesa in the Hill Country, it is not your typical ranch. The site, which is part of a larger 400-acre property in Center Point, is marked by four buildings — a tennis pavilion, pool pavilion, guest retreat, and main house — that both nestle into and float above the landscape. Lake|Flato Architects, in collaboration with their client, New York-based interior designer Sara Story, and Studio Outside Landscape Architects, achieve an integrated balance that is at once of its place and inspired by distant lands. Each building is defined by long Lueders limestone blocks on one side, which create heavy facades that give way to light clerestories and thin, flat roofs. Opposite the masonry masses, sheets of glass expose expansive views of the hills framed in black oxidized steel. Details such as operable wall
62 Texas Architect
9/10 2014