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Creating Environments that Enrich Communities and Nurture Life. Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion Decatur, TX 2

The role of public architecture is significant, one which must ensure functional and well-conceived solutions that resonate with the public-spirited nature of its civic purpose. Lake Flato is committed to creating enduring architecture that embodies the intangible aspects of culture and place while delivering practical solutions to building performance, sustainability and systems design.

A civic building should speak to the city around it, embracing the local community and culture. Like any effective public servant, it should work for the good of its mission, striking a delicate balance between public accessibility and security.

Civic Spaces

Austin Central Library AUSTIN, TEXAS Overlooking Shoal Creek and Lady Bird Lake, the LEED Platinum Austin Central Library is a building shaped by light and designed to respond to the context of its place. Aspiring to be the most daylit public library in the nation, the heart of the building is the six-story atrium, which provides daylight for more than 80% of regularly occupied spaces. The unique rooftop butterfly garden and reading porches, inspired by Texans’ love for the outdoors, draw visitors to connect with nature. Serving as the western portal to downtown, the library is a technologically-rich, innovative community hub which establishes a culturally-sensitive, major civic presence and community gathering space in the heart of downtown. Lake Flato - Shepley Bulfinch joint venture Project Size

198,000 sf Recognition

2018 AIA/ALA Library Building Award 2018 ALA/IIDA Library Interior Design Award 2018 AIA Austin Design Award with Sustainability Commendation 2018 American Public Works Assoc. TX Chapter Proj. of the Year 2018 Architizer A+ Awards Special Mention 2018 Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute HONORS Award 2018 ULI Austin Best Project Design Award 2018 Austin Green Awards Project of the Year 2018 Finalist: International Federation of Library Association’s Public Library of the Year

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The library serves as a model for sustainable resource use and library efficiency while promoting visceral connections to collections, history, culture, and place.

The heart of the library is the six-story atrium, which provides daylight for more than 80% of regularly occupied spaces.

The facility is based on flexible, blended spaces including indoor collections and reading rooms, outdoor reading porches, maker spaces, a technology center, café, bookstore, 350-seat event center, art gallery, outdoor dining, demonstration kitchen and rooftop garden.

“The Austin Central Library is a landmark achievement in vision and execution. It’s a textbook example of what’s possible in community building and placemaking. JOHN GILLUM, FORMER FACILITIES DIRECTOR AUSTIN CENTRAL LIBRARY

Cedar Park Public Library CEDAR PARK, TEXAS As the first building within Cedar Park’s new 50-acre Bell District, the Cedar Park Public Library serves as both a civic destination and catalyst for downtown activity. Envisioned as the community’s porch, it creates a welcoming threshold between the city and Bell Park, fostering connection, learning, and civic life. In a city that previously lacked a true downtown, the library has quickly become its civic heart—welcoming over 330,000 visitors in its first six months, with daily attendance two to five times higher than the previous facility. The design responds to the site’s natural features, preserving mature trees, capturing breezes, and maximizing daylight. Two wings organize the program: children, teen, and staff spaces to the north; adult collections, makerspaces, and event areas to the south. A double-height lobby and outdoor porches extend into the landscape, while mass timber, limestone, and glass reflect durability and craft— creating a vibrant public space Project Size

50,572 sf Recognition

2025 ULI Austin Best Public Project Award 2025 IIDA Texas Oklahoma Design Excellence Award 2024 American City & Country Crow Community Award

The lobby features a custom light fixture and an acoustically tuned wood wall crafted from trees reclaimed from the site. Floor-to-ceiling glazing frames sweeping views of the courtyard, park, and the Bell District, allowing visitors to experience the surrounding landscape as they circulate through the heart of the building on both floors.

The children’s book Be a Tree! by Maria Gianferrari inspired the design of the kids’ area, which features a large plywood tree and custom wall coverings adapted from the original illustrations by Felicita Sala. These elements create an immersive environment that encourages exploration, imagination, and a deeper connection to nature.

The building includes makerspaces, event and collaboration rooms, quiet reading and work areas, a tree-shaded courtyard, and a large children’s and family area with indoor and outdoor interactive play and learning exhibits. Two elevated screened porches capture prevailing breezes and provide comfortable outdoor spaces with treetop views for reading, working, and gathering.

San Antonio Federal Courthouse SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS A General Services Administration (GSA) Design Excellence project, the new San Antonio Federal Courthouse is designed to generate civic pride and a dignified presence that captures the cultural spirit of San Antonio through its use of local vernacular and natural materials. The project will replace an outdated courthouse with a modern, state-ofthe-art facility. A key element of the design will focus on an interior courtyard and tree covered plaza that emphasizes the courtyard’s overall connection to San Antonio’s newly developing Civic District. Project Size

304,000 sf

AT&T Center SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS The home to San Antonio’s NBA franchise and annual rodeo, the arena captures the spirit of the South Texas’ blended cultures and takes advantage of San Antonio’s love for informal gatherings by creating celebratory spaces that blur the distinction between exterior and interior. The design reduces the scale of this big sports arena for the San Antonio Spurs basketball team into a series of porches, loggias and silos that welcome visitors and mitigate the effects of the climate. The building is recessed into the ground to reduce the apparent size of the 18,500+ seat arena, and shady porches are added around its perimeter. Hallways and other pedestrian areas are pulled to the outside as much as possible, culminating in corner stairs wrapped in perforated-metal sun-screened silos. Project Size

725,000 sf Recognition

2004 Metal Architecture Design Award 2003 AIA San Antonio Design Award 2003 San Antonio Downtown Alliance, Best Economic Development

Between the arena and the adjacent coliseum, cables holding sheet-metal panels are strung as a sombrilla to shade the “backyard” plaza. Broad overhangs, tall porches and generous loggias all contribute to the feeling of airiness, appropriate to the climate and the sport.

Museum Spaces

Briscoe Western Art Museum SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS A River Walk landmark—the San Antonio Library from 1930 until 1968 and then the Hertzberg Circus Museum until 1996—has become the home for the Dolph and Janey Briscoe Western Art Museum. The new museum celebrates the art, people and history of the great American West, with an emphasis on San Antonio and the South Texas region. The renovation provides state-of-the-art gallery and exhibition areas on four floors, while respecting the building’s historic architecture. Project Size

58,500 sf Recognition

2015 San Antonio AIA Design Award 2013 San Antonio Downtown Alliance, Best Adaptive Reuse Building

A sculpture garden has been incorporated into the adjacent park, and serves as an area for respite as well as events.

“Lake Flato did a wonderful job of creating this conversation between the old and the new. In a way, it’s a metaphor for San Antonio - rooted in the past, but very forward thinking. BRISCOE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, STEVEN M. KARR

Witte Museum & Mays Family Center SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS Located in Brackenridge Park on the bank of the San Antonio River, The New Witte celebrates the people, plants and animals of South Texas with galleries, Live Labs, interactive exhibits and interpretive infrastructure. The museum’s Susan Naylor Center supports an interactive learning environment; dioramas are in highly accessible areas and artifacts appear at all heights to encourage engagement for all ages. Daylight floods open areas through windows and clerestories, visually connecting visitors to the outdoors. The new Mays Event Center is a 12,000 sf adaptable revenue generator for the museum, hosting a variety of large scale events from school programs to corporate luncheons to galas. This multi-purpose space was designed for flexibility, accommodating up to 900 people. Outside seating, dining and event spaces overlook the historic acequia and courtyard space. Project Size

9,000 sf Recognition

2017 AIA San Antonio Citation Award 2021 AIA Austin Design Award of Merit

“The Witte Team is still in admiration every time we enter the new Susan Naylor Center and see the building streaming with school children in the morning, delighted adults and families in the late afternoon, and festive groups in the evening. We too are discovering the... ins and outs of the transformed campus. MARISE MCDERMOTT, WITTE MUSEUM PRESIDENT & CEO

The materiality of the museum thoughtfully creates a design that reflects its natural surroundings and regional context, making the design of the museum reflective of the site and Texas history.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation HOUSTON, TEXAS The new Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation is composed of a series of light-filled studios constructed above an existing parking garage on the campus’s eastern edge, creating a pivotal portal into the campus while complementing the museum’s evolving architectural lineage. Designed to optimize daylight while protecting the artwork inside, the studio bays are oriented East/West and topped with shaped roofs and clerestory windows to flood the studios with indirect natural light. The building leverages an innovative structural strategy utilizing both mass timber and steel structure. The roof’s Dowel Laminated Timber Panels were prefabricated, panelized and lifted into place, resulting in quicker on-site construction. In association with Kendall/Heaton Associates Inc. Project Size

30,000 sf Recognition

2020 WoodWorks Wood Design Award

The four conservation studios — painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and photo/paper — are expressed as distinct volumes that cantilever beyond the edge of the garage and pop up in height to accommodate clerestory windows. Functions that don’t require light are distributed along an interior hallway and between the studios.

The Center is the first installation of Dowel Laminated Timber (DLT) panels in North America and was prefabricated, panelized and lifted into place, resulting in quicker on-site construction. The structure is left exposed as a finish material to lend the warmth and texture of wood and reflect daylight into the building.

Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston HOUSTON, TEXAS The new Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH) is a new community arts complex that provides a centralized home base in Midtown for a broad spectrum of Houston’s leading and emerging arts and cultural organizations. The 59,000 square-foot facility consists of four dedicated theater spaces, two rehearsal spaces/ classrooms, and several gallery spaces, along with back-of-house support and office space. A generous public breezeway acts as a lobby for these arts venues while serving as a gathering place. In association with Studio Red Project Size

59,000 sf Project Size

2017 Texas Society of Architects/AIA Design Award 2017 ULI Houston Development of Distinction Award

SAN ANTONIO CHILDREN’S DOSEUM SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS The San Antonio Children’s Museum relocated to a new campus that supports their vision of being “a premier educational resource, developing innovative thinkers capable of meeting the challenges of the 21st century.” The new 68,000 square foot museum is comprised of a series of three, two-story Exhibit Halls. Between each Exhibit Hall are glass, daylight-filled transitional spaces that connect visitors to the outdoor exhibit yards. Adjacent to Brackenridge Park, it is set in a park where the landscape surrounds the building with meandering pathways that offer a sense of surprise, beautiful gardens that capture the senses, and shady places for families to relax, and school groups to unwind. Project Size

68,000 sf Recognition

2016 San Antonio Air Quality Stewardship Award

“Our new state-of-the-art venue offers innovative exhibits and experiences to get children excited about concepts in science, math, art and literacy and encourages them to take that excitement into the world. VANESSA HURD, FORMER SAN ANTONIO DOSEUM CEO

University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for Art HOUSTON, TEXAS To improve the theatre-going experience Lake Flato created a new front door for the Wortham Theatre. The renovation created a new public reception hall, added two large rehearsal classrooms, and provided a second-story office suite for the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. The design solution visually integrates the School of Theatre into the Fine Arts Quadrangle with bold architectural forms and animates the academic programs. Project Size

11,800 sf Recognition

2007 AIA San Antonio Design Award

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University of Texas at Austin Visual Arts Center AUSTIN, TEXAS Lake Flato’s renovation of the former Blanton Art Museum space creates a community hub for the University of Texas Department of Art and Art History. The new Center has three primary purposes: exhibition space for the display of student and faculty work, administrative offices for the Department, and studios for graduate students in printmaking, digital photography, design, and transmedia. A new entrance, created from an existing loading dock, establishes a compelling entry to the building that faces the adjacent College of Fine Arts. More intimate galleries are created with freestanding walls. Existing interior concrete vaults help to control sound within the space. Project Size

30,000 sf Recognition

2012 Texas Society of Architects/AIA Design Award 2011 AIA San Antonio Design Award

University of Texas at Austin Harry Ransom Center AUSTIN, TEXAS This humanities research library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the world’s finest cultural archives. A 40,000-square-foot renovation transformed the once fortress-like facility into spaces filled with light and open to the outdoors. The design created new exhibit spaces, a 125-seat theater, meeting rooms, and research areas, set within the building’s existing framework. The ground floor public spaces, formerly hidden behind a windowless façade, are now visible through glass walls etched with images and text from the museum’s collection. At night, these glowing windows serve as a beacon for the campus. Project Size

40,000 sf Recognition

2004 AIA San Antonio Design Award 2004 Austin Business Journal Design Award 2003 Austin Builders Council, Commercial Real Estate Award

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Additional Experience

Friends Meetinghouse

Main Plaza & Portal San Fernando

San Antonio, Texas

The site for this meetinghouse is located on a busy intersection just north of downtown San Antonio. It is surrounded by apartment buildings and a commercial strip mall. In order to achieve the goal of silence — paramount in the Quaker faith — the building needed to feel detached from the noise of its immediate context. Therefore, the meeting space is oriented to the back of the site and surrounded by a multitude of trees. Parishioners leave their cars and walk up a winding path that leads to a gate in a thick masonry wall. This gate opens onto a courtyard surrounded by porches. The design was inspired by the early meeting houses, which were very functional, simple spaces for weekly Friends’ meetings as well as gathering spaces for community groups.

The Historic Civic Center River Link is a public park located in downtown that links the Riverwalk with historic Main Plaza and provides a shady respite for downtown visitors. The plaza has broad steps, reflecting the formal nature of the 1700s cathedral nearby and a meandering ramp, evoking the highly informal Riverwalk. The stairs and ramp surround a central plaza framed by cypress trees. Retaining walls of board-formed concrete and large limestone mill blocks form planting areas featuring plants native to various regions of Texas.

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4,800 sf Recognition 2006 Faith & Form Religious Architecture Honor Award 2006 Wood Design Citation Award

Main Plaza is the historical center of San Antonio, having been established in 1731. Since its establishment, the Plaza has remained the center of social, governmental and religious life of the community. Located along the Plaza’s boundaries are some of the most important structures in the city, including the San Fernando Cathedral and the Bexar County Courthouse.

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Firm Overview Established in 1984, Lake Flato designs buildings that respond to the culture and climate of each unique place. We believe in creating environments that enrich communities and nurture life through our work. In collaboration with our clients, Lake Flato creates buildings that are tactile and modern, environmentally responsible and authentic, artful and crafted.

The firm’s designs evolve from an appreciation for the pragmatic solutions of vernacular architecture, the honesty of modernism and the context of our rich and varied landscape. By employing sustainable strategies in a wide variety of building types and scales, the firm designs architecture that conserves energy and natural resources while creating highperformance buildings and healthy built environments for the building’s occupants.

With a staff of 150 professionals, Lake Flato is guided by fifteen partners who create teams that lead each project from beginning to completion. A collaborative process within the office fully engages clients and subconsultants and creates a place in which ideas can flourish. Comprehensive and inclusive design reviews generate fresh ideas and firm-wide ownership of the work.

Lake Flato has received wide critical acclaim. We were recognized by ARCHITECT Magazine as the top firm overall in the 2019 ARCHITECT 50, the American Institute of Architects honored us with its prestigious Firm of the Year Award in 2004, and Lake Flato was the first architecture firm to earn a Texas Medal of Arts in 2009. Fifteen Lake Flato projects have received the national AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Award, the highest recognition for sustainable design. Fast Company recently named us one of the “Ten Most Innovative Architecture Firms in the World” and the LOCUS Foundation honored Lake Flato with a Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, recognizing our architectural approach to addressing the needs of society.

As architects, teachers, environmental stewards and community advocates, we strive to elevate the public’s appreciation of architecture and foster the education of the next generation of architects. 77

Recognition Lake Flato has been recognized with more than 400 international, national and regional awards and featured in over 100 books and 250 publications.

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITIZER A+ ARCHITECTURE AWARDS Alamo Beer Brewery (Honorable Mention: Metal Details) Austin Central Library (Honorable Mention: Light) Bridge House (Special Mention: Residential Private House) Clinton Corners (Architecture+Prefab Jury Winner) Confluence Park (Cultural+Pavilions Jury Winner) Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion (Architecture + Sustainability Jury Winner) House Zero (Architecture + Experimental Design, New Technology Jury Winner) Marine Education Center (Architecture + Climate Change Jury Winner) Penn State University Pollinator and Bird Garden (Sustainable Landscape + Planning Jury Winner) River Bend Residence (Residential - Private House Jury Winner) ARCHDAILY TOP 100 PROJECTS IN THE WORLD ASU Health Services Building Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion CHICAGO ATHENAEUM AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARD Aegean Pool House Canopy Hotel San Antonio (Honorable Mention) Confluence Park Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion Holdsworth Center Hotel Magdalena House Zero Ishawooa Mesa Ranch Knox College Whitcomb Art Center Lavaca House Marfa Ranch Marine Education Center

River Bend Residence San Antonio Federal Courthouse (Honorable Mention)

Achievement (Regional Excellence)

CONGRESS FOR NEW URBANISM GLOBAL CHARTER AWARD Pearl Brewery Redevelopment

AIA ARCHITECTURE FIRM AWARD

LOCUS FOUNDATION GLOBAL AWARD FOR SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE Lake Flato Architects

ARCHITECT 50, TOP U.S. FIRMS Lake Flato Architects - 1st Overall (2019)

INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE HALL OF FAME Lake Flato Architects STEPHEN R. KELLERT BIOPHILIC DESIGN AWARD Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion TIME MAGAZINE: WORLD’S GREATEST PLACES Austin Central Library ULI INSTITUTE GLOBAL AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE Pearl Brewery Redevelopment THE WOOD PRODUCTS COUNCIL WOOD DESIGN AWARD FOR GREEN BUILDING Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion WOODWORKS WOOD IN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion Friends Meetinghouse Hotel Magdalena (Sustainable Wood Design) LSU Hilltop Arboretum Marine Education Center at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory The Soto (Regional Excellence) Trinity University Dicke Hall + Business and Humanities District University of Denver Burwell Center for Career

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Lake Flato Architects

AIA HONOR AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE Armstrong Oil & Gas Carraro Residence Confluence Park Hill Country Jacal Holdsworth Center Hog Pen Creek Residence Lasater Residence Marine Education Center Pearl Brewery Redevelopment World Birding Center AIA/HUD COMMUNITY BUILDING BY DESIGN AWARD Carver Academy AIA COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT TOP TEN GREEN PROJECTS Arizona State University Health Services Building Arizona State University Polytechnic Academic Buildings Austin Central Library Confluence Park Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion Georgia Tech Krone Engineered Biosystems Building Government Canyon Visitor Education Center H-E-B Muller Market Knox College Whitcomb Art Center Livestrong Foundation Headquarters Marine Education Center Pearl Brewery Redevelopment Shangri La Botanical Gardens & Nature Center University of Shady Grove Biomedical

Sciences & Engineering Education Building University of Texas at Houston School of Nursing World Birding Center AIA/ALA LIBRARY BUILDING AWARD Austin Central Library Great Northwest Branch Library ALA/IIDA LIBRARY INTERIOR DESIGN AWARD Austin Central Library FAITH & FORM, RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE AWARD Congregation Agudas Achim Friends Meetinghouse AIA COMMITTEE ON ARCHITECTURE FOR EDUCATION Arizona State University Polytechnic Academic Buildings Awty International School Student Center Carver Academy Cranbrook Kingswood Girls Middle School Francis Parker School Indian Springs School St. John’s College Levan Hall AIA HOUSING AWARD 1221 Broadway Blue Lake Retreat Hog Pen Creek Residence Lake Austin Residence Lake Tahoe Residence AIA INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AWARD House Zero AIA JUSTICE FACILITIES REVIEW AWARD San Antonio Federal Courthouse AIA REGIONAL & URBAN DESIGN AWARD Music Lane Pearl Brewery Redevelopment ASLA HONOR AWARDS Arizona State University Polytechnic Academic District

Houston Arboretum Mill Springs Ranch Phil Hardberger Park Urban Ecology Center Shangri La Botanical Gardens & Nature Center

Broadford Farm Pavilion Dog Team Too Loft & Studio Hacienda Ja Ja LC Ranch River Bend Residence

AIA COLORADO DESIGN AWARD Armstrong Oil & Gas Headquarters University of Denver Career Achievement Center (Award of Merit)

RESIDENTIAL MAGAZINE DESIGN ARCHITECTURE AWARD Fall Creek Residence

AIA GEORGIA DESIGN AWARD Georgia Tech Krone Engineered Biosystems Building Georgia Tech West Village Commons

Armstrong Oil & Gas Headquarters

SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING AWARDS

AIA INDIANA DESIGN AWARD Prindle Institute for Ethics

Arizona State University Polytechnic Academic Buildings

Arizona State University Health Services Building (Additions / Adaptive Reuse)

AIA MARYLAND DESIGN AWARD USG Biomedical Sciences & Engineering Education Building

West Texas Ranch AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION AWARD

Cutting Horse Ranch Government Canyon Visitor Center Triple-S Steel Supply Company BUILDER’S CHOICE AWARDS Lake Flato (Hall of Fame for Design Excellence Award) Miller Porch House (Project of the Year) Mill Springs Ranch (Custom Home Design Award) 1221 Broadway Redevelopment (Design & Planning Award) Hacienda Ja Ja (Design & Planning Award) LC Ranch (Design & Planning Award) Story Pool House (Design & Planning Award) CONGRESS FOR NEW URBANISM EMERGING PROJECT AWARD Montgomery Park Master Plan

Georgia Tech West Village Commons (Honorable Mention) Knox College Whitcomb Art Center (Merit Award) Trinity University Dicke Hall + Business and Humanities District (Honorable Mention) USG Biomedical Sciences & Engineering Education Facility (Merit Award) TILT-UP CONCRETE ASSOCIATION AWARDS Lake Flato Architects (Irving J. Gill Progressive Architect Award) Confluence Park (Achievement Award)

REGIONAL AIA ARIZONA DESIGN AWARD

ECOHOME AWARD Hacienda Ja Ja

Arizona State University Health Services Building

ECO-STRUCTURE EVERGREEN AWARD Full Goods Warehouse

AIA AUSTIN DESIGN AWARD

METAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGN AWARD Knox College Whitcomb Art Building Spurs AT&T Center ARCHITECT MAGAZINE RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECT DESIGN AWARD 1221 Broadway

Austin Central Library (with Sustainability Commendation) Blue Lake Retreat Holdsworth Center Hotel Magdalena Music Lane Witte Museum

AIA MISSISSIPPI DESIGN AWARD + JURY AWARD Marine Education Center at GCRL AIA NEVADA DESIGN AWARD Horizon House AIA SAN ANTONIO DESIGN AWARD (19912025) 1221 Broadway Redevelopment Aegean Pool House Agudas Achim Synagogue Air Barns Alamo Beer Brewery Armstrong Oil & Gas Headquarters AT&T Center (now Frost Center) ASU Polytechnic Academic District ASU Health Services Building Bartlit Residence Bellaire Residence Big Bend Fossil Discovery Blue Lake Retreat Bluffview Porch House Briscoe Western Art Museum Broadford Farm Pavilion Brown Residence Carraro Residence Chandler Ranch House Cibolo Nature Center Clinton Corners Residence Confluence Park

Courtyard House Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School for Girls Cross Timbers Ranch Cutting Horse Ranch Dallas Arboretum Desert House Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion Dunning Residence Epoch Winery Tasting Room Epoch Ascension Winery Francis Parker School Frog Hill Friends Meeting House Full Goods Warehouse Georgia Tech Krone Engineered Biosystems Building (COTE Award) Georgia Tech West Village Commons Goat Mountain Ranch Government Canyon Visitor Education Center Greenhill School Hacienda Ja Ja Hill Country Jacal Hillside House Hog Pen Creek Residence Hotel San Jose Hotel Magdalena Indian Springs School Ishawooa Mesa Ranch Knox College Whitcomb Art Center Lake Austin Residence Lake Tahoe Residence LC Ranch Livestrong Foundation Headquarters LSU Hilltop Arboretum Marine Education Center at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Midtown Arts & Theater Center, Houston (MATCH) Mill Springs Ranch Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Center for Conservation Naples Botanical Garden Visitor Center New Mexico School for the Arts Olmos Park Residence

Leadership In Energy & Environment

Inclusive Collaboration

Lake Flato believes that architecture and sustainability are inseparable, and that buildings should be beautiful and affordable while promoting healthy living. With these goals in mind, we help our clients understand the necessity and attainability of a sustainable approach to design. Since the firm’s inception close to 40 years ago, environmental concerns have been integral to our design approach.

Our Integrated Design Process is a key driver for advancing sustainable design, environmental resiliency and social equity outcomes. This generative process creates meaning and momentum at the very start of a project, driving results that have led to various design performance milestones, including Lake Flato receiving 16 AIA COTE Top Ten awards, more than any other architecture firm. These award-winning projects are located across the country and include various projects, from nature-based education centers to large-scale civic and urban transformations.

National AIA Committee On The Environment Top Ten Green Projects Sixteen Lake Flato-designed projects have received national AIA COTE Top Ten Green Awards, The American Institute of Architects’ highest honor for excellence in sustainable design. USG Biomedical Sciences & Engineering Education Facility

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Confluence Park 2023 Knox College Whitcomb Art Center 2022 Austin Central Library 2020 Marine Education Center 2020 Georgia Tech Krone Engineered Biosystems Building

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Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion

2016

H-E-B Mueller Market

2016

ASU Health & Wellness Center

2014

Pearl Brewery / Full Goods Warehouse

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ASU Polytechnic Academic District 2012 Livestrong Foundation Headquarters 2011 Shangri La Nature Center 2009 Government Canyon 2007 World Birding Center 2006 UTHSC School of Nursing

Living Building Challenge Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion (certified)

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Design Innovation Lake Flato is constantly seeking new and innovative ways to advance building and human performance. The design of the 3D-printed House Zero, for instance, pushes the boundaries of traditional home building methods – revealing innovative ways to provide shelter in the waste-prone home building industry. Another instance of Lake Flato applying new and evolving technology to elevate sustainable design is the firm’s expertise with mass timber. With more than 17 mass timber projects in progress or completed, Lake Flato’s commitment to mass timber construction is a carbon-fighting strategy that celebrates the timeless qualities of beauty, nature, and craft.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion The clients and communities we serve are some of the most progressive and diverse in the industry. We expect no less of ourselves as we strive to create an inclusive atmosphere in our practice and in our collaborations. Attaining rigorous B Corp certification and participating in the International Living Future Institute’s JUST program is an extension of our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. Both programs provide transparent, internationally recognized frameworks for assessing and improving how we operate through an equity lens. By holding ourselves accountable to these high standards of verification and transparency, we aspire to serve as a model for other firms.

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