SELECT WORK
Residential
High Meadow Residence
ASPEN, COLORADO
The High Meadow Residence sits quietly in the refuge of towering pines, looking outward across an expansive meadow towards the mountains surrounding the town of Aspen. A series of wood and stone volumes usher guests into courtyards populated with aspen groves and framed views of the rolling horizon surrounding the site. These volumes of wood and stone gently step down the site, each touching the land to invite their occupants to explore the outdoors.
A large timber pavilion contains the primary living spaces and offers transparency both to mountains to the east and the intimacy of the courtyard to the west. The pavilion links two gables, reminiscent of western homesteads. The Main Bedroom occupies a quiet and monolithic gable assembled of local field stone, while a charred cedar barn contains guest rooms, sleeping lofts and elevated catwalks to explore after long days on the mountain.
This home employs radiant heating, thermal massing and a large solar array to capture the resources of the sun, a welcome guest in the colder winter months.
Ishawooa Mesa Ranch
CODY, WYOMING
Inspired by their interest in sustainable ranching practices, wildlife preservation, and stream restoration, the clients sought to create a modern interpretation of a homestead that responded to the context of its place. The new dwelling connects to the site’s existing ranch infrastructure along the south fork of the Shoshone River while maintaining privacy and embracing the wild parts of their ranch. A stone volume sits on the edge of the wild while a barn faces the ranch, serving as a threshold to the compound. These two forms are connected by a sod roof building, all surrounding a small central courtyard.
Designed to evoke the atmosphere of a camp, the house is crafted to accommodate large gatherings while encouraging interaction. The program is organized into smaller buildings to avoid overscaled spaces while carefully placed windows and dormers ensure stunning views of the surrounding valley. A stone eat-in kitchen anchored by two hearths is the touchstone of the home, reiterating the ranch operation’s emphasis on food, health, and community.
LC Ranch
THREE FORKS, MONTANA
The LC Ranch was designed in response to Montana’s dramatic landscapes and climatic realities so its owners could enjoy its surrounding countryside regardless of the season. The house sits in the transition between rolling hills of native short grasses and the riparian valley of the Gallatin River. One of the spring-fed creeks that feed this river flows parallel to the house and can be seen from every room.
The house finds inspiration from two regional building types - the simple gabled barn and the earthen sodbuster home of the early settlers. To take advantage of the site’s more temperate summer climate, the main barn-like living space can open to the site with a series of large sliding doors that wrap the building.
During the winter, the space can be enclosed using large rolling insulated panels to protect the glazing and provide shelter from the harsh Montana winter. In contrast to this, the more private bedrooms nestle under a sod roof keeping them cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Clinton Corners
CLINTON, NEW YORK
A short, idyllic drive from New York City, the Clinton Corners residence is located in the Hudson Valley. Nestled discreetly in a sylvan lot, the house was envisioned as both a family retreat for weekends away from the city and a gathering space for holiday celebrations and special occasions. Distinct areas for family, guests and entertaining are sited to take advantage of the adjacent lake and surrounding woods.
Prefabrication played a major role in the design and construction process. The house was designed and produced in close collaboration between architect, factory, and contractor. The exposed heavy timber frame and superinsulated wall panels were prefabricated in a climate-controlled facility nearby and delivered to the site for assembly. Off-site fabrication made possible an aggressive eight-month construction schedule in the middle of the New York winter. The precision of the prefabricated components also provided a very tight building envelope resulting in higher energy performance and precise control over indoor air quality.
Front Range Retreat
BOULDER, COLORADO
Sited on a peaceful neighborhood lake, this Boulder, Colorado residence is thoughtfully designed to compliment the landscape of a unique site that bridges a neighborhood and the foothills of the Front Range. A series of retaining walls tuck the house carefully within a gently-sloped hillside, creating a sense of privacy from neighbors and a connection with the adjacent open prairie. A variety of indoor and outdoor living spaces promote an active lifestyle across all seasons.
North Fork
PECONIC, NEW YORK
The North Fork residence, located on Long Island, was designed as a weekend retreat for a couple and their young child. The clients desired a house that felt low-key and subdued, with a strong connection to their waterfront site. Inspired by the feeling of camp, the regional barn building typology, and the concept of the Scandinavian summer house, the project comprises a collection of simple wood gable buildings situated between two ravines.
The slender gable of the main house steps down with the land, maintaining the building’s low-slung form. The double-height great room bridges two landscapes: a domesticated “beer garden” court with trees and the promontory experience looking out over the water. A second barn engaged in the knoll contains a garage, exercise space, and studio loft above with forest and ravine views. An existing carriage house, used for a long time as a guest cabin and renovated for this project, nestles into the other side of the knoll.
Townhouses Condos Multifamily
Ulery's Lake Cabins
BIG SKY, MONTANA
Nestled in the mountains outside of Yellowstone National Park, these small cabins serve as an outpost for active outdoor families. Meant for year-round habitation, the cabins take into consideration connections to the majestic mountain landscape during warmer seasons as well as respite from the more frigid, colder days of winter. Care was taken to minimize disturbance of the surrounding landscape while integrating sound alpine building practices with a modern approach.
client/developer
Lone Mountain Land Company
project size
16 Cabins | Cabin A: 1,534 sf | Cabin B: 1,38 sf
construction cost
$10.4M
Snowmass Havens On Fanny Hill
SNOWMASS, COLORADO
Arranged to maximize the community’s connection and access to nature and the extensive network of outdoor recreational amenities, a series of single family residences are situated slope-side near the base of Snowmass mountain. The site is distinctive as the last developable site in Snowmass base village, located along Fanny Hill and allowing access to the amenities of the mall, base village, and lifts that access the entire mountain.
This project distinguishes itself from other mountain residential developments based on its pedestrian-focused site approach, visually and physically connecting owners to the mountainside setting and celebrating placemaking in the seasonal landscape.
Focused on the pedestrian experience, the project features a modern rustic design and a landscape that unites the site with pathways, meadow landscapes, and groves of aspen trees.
client/developer
East West Partners
size
10 Units; 2,700 - 3,727 sf each
Hospitality Mixed Use Planning
Epoch Winery Tasting Room
TEMPLETON, CALIFORNIA
Epoch Estate Wines new Tasting Room and Production Winery sits delicately upon the historic 143 acre York Mountain property. A full restoration of this landscape reconnects visitors to the origins of the site and maintains the spirit of agrarian structures that are subservient to the landscape.
The design scheme brings new life to the original winery, which was previously damaged in an earthquake, with a full reconstruction of the new Tasting Room incorporating original heavy timber, site fired brick materials, and a new roof system to streamline the massing. Crafted from local materials, the barn’s lofty spaces are inherently flexible and perfect for wine making.
client/developer
Armstrong Vineyards
project size
16,410 sf conditioned
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Soho House Austin
AUSTIN, TEXAS
Tapping into Austin’s history as a magnet for artists and musicians, Soho House offers a variety of settings for creative inspiration and causal glamor. Handmade and artisan-crafted materials were used throughout the project, grounding the spaces in a rich tactile experience unique to the vibrant South Congress neighborhood. Soho House includes three levels of hospitality with a cinema, intimate event spaces, and a rooftop pool/club deck totaling 50,000 sf of interior and 12,000 sf of exterior space. Lake Flato worked in close collaboration with Soho House’s design team to execute the project, coordinating the design of the Soho space within the Music Lane shell building, also designed by Lake Flato.
client/developer
Soho House
project size
49 key hotel
50,000 sf conditioned
12,000 sf unconditioned
Yeti® Flagship
AUSTIN, TEXAS
YETI Flagship is an adaptive reuse project that breathes new life into a neglected historic warehouse at the foot of Austin’s Congress Bridge over Lady Bird Lake. Envisioned as a destination for those faithful to the YETI brand and as an immersive retail experience, the new headquarters for the outdoor lifestyle retailer serves as a catalyst for urban revitalization. The YETI brand’s affinity for celebrating the outdoors guided the project design toward closely examining the relationship between interior and exterior spaces. The result is a dynamic, flexible space that adapts to a variety of uses and events.
client/developer Yeti
project size 8,642 sf
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The YETI Flagship design thoughtfully integrates the re-purposed building’s relationship to Austin’s newly implemented Barton Springs Revitalization Plan. YETI Flagship successfully celebrates the outdoors as well as the shared history of Austin, the brand and its founders.
Aspire At Spanish Peaks
BIG SKY, MONTANA
Aspire at Spanish Peaks is designed to create a welcoming, modern, and attractive community spaces for this family-oriented resort near Big Sky, Montana. Built on a sloping brownfield site with more than 7,000 square feet of space, the facilities are designed to uniquely fit the rugged mountain setting and maximize surrounding views. The program includes and adventure outfitter, indoor and outdoor dining, a gym, pools, indoor and outdoor children's play areas, and fitness facilities. Utilizing a mass timber structure sourced from the Northwest, Aspire is designed to minimize carbon, energy, and water use and maximize passive heat gain and solar power generation.
client/developler
Lone Mountain Land Company
size
23,035 sf
Deer Valley Mountain Resort
WASATCH COUNTY, UTAH
The master plan envisions an outdoor, active lifestyle mountain community, designed to encourage pedestrian, bicycle, and multimodal transportation. This new 20-acre mixed-use community includes 100,000 square feet of hospitality, commercial, and mixeduse elements along with retail, restaurants, a brewery, a grocery store, a multi-modal transit center, town plaza, music amphitheater, and lakeside amenities.
The overall concept was designed around the site’s “green zipper” that brings natural alpine forests and low mountain scrubland through the core of the town center and into residential clusters, allowing for immediate access to greenways for residents. This connective pathway also acts as the primary water quality feature through the site, allowing for on-site stormwater retention and filtration, protecting the reservoir below. Hike and bike trails within the site connect to the larger county network of trails. The community will serve as a public transit hub for the mountain valley bus network.
client/developer
ValueRock Investment Partners
project size
1,070 units | 2,139,205 sf
Mountain Chalet
ASPEN, COLORADO
The Mountain Chalet is a renovation and expansion of an existing wellknown hotel in Aspen, Colorado that was built in numerous phases since its original construction in 1954. The existing hotel features 47,000 square feet of space with 59 guest rooms situated on 15,000 square feet of land. The renovation transforms the property into a luxury resort that pays homage to authentic Alpine chalets and the traditional building forms and materials found in those regions.
The new 70,000-square-foot redevelopment expands and renovates the hotel into a high-end boutique lifestyle hotel tastefully designed for outdoor, adventure, sports, food, design, and art enthusiasts. The project features a new heavy timber framed wing with 18 keys, a full interior renovation of all guest suites and public areas, three new restaurants, a new lobby, a high-end Swiss inspired spa, and a concierge warming hut for arriving guests. The hotel will also feature a roof-top après-ski bar and event space on the fifth floor with views of the mountain and downtown.
client/developer
Aspen Mountain Chalet project size
77 units | 70,000 sf construction cost $81.9M (est.)
Snowbasin Landscape Hotel
HUNTSVILLE, UTAH
As part of a reimagined Snowbasin base village, the design for this boutique eco-adventure hotel envisions a new way of connecting to the land with a unique mountain experience. Anchored by a central gathering hub, the hotel offers guests immediate access to nature, including from their own cabins that fit neatly into the alpine woodland. Nestled into a hillside and adjacent to an existing nature trail, the hotel seeks to fit naturally into the land, supporting a series of intimate relationships that engage the immediate site and frame distant views.
client/developer
East West Partners
project size
100 units | 104,364 sf conditioned | 30,200 sf unconditioned
construction cost
$43M
Schweitzer Mountain Resort
SANDPOINT, IDAHO
Building upon the casual ‘come as you are’ spirit that Schweitzer is known for, this design for ski-in-ski-out residences plus amenities seeks to provide much needed mountain housing while preserving the historic charm of Schweitzer’s Base Village. A steeply sloping site accommodate the ski runs essential to accessing the primary chairlift and creates an intimate mountainside environment for new residents.
client/developer
Schweitzer Mountain Resort
project size
24-32 Resort Residents + Multiple Amenities
construction cost
$28-34M (est.)
Zion Resort
CONFIDENTIAL LOCATION
Surrounded by the soaring peaks and sculpted cliffs of Utah’s red rock desert, Zion Resort invites guests to immerse themselves in one of the world’s most breathtaking landscapes. Designed to connect people to place, the resort embraces the region’s dramatic topography and shifting light, offering an experience that changes with every season and every sunrise. Zion Resort embodies a deep respect for nature, sustainability, and community. Guests are encouraged to slow down, explore, and discover the beauty of the desert.
client/developer
East West Partners
project size
90 units | 98,079 sf conditioned | 36,613 sf unconditioned
construction cost
$72M (est.)
Each structure is thoughtfully placed to honor the land, blending modern comfort with environmentally responsible design.
Clyde Companies Headquarter
SPRINGVILLE, UTAH
In celebration of its 100-year anniversary, Clyde Companies returned its headquarters to Springville, Utah—where it was founded in 1926. Lake Flato transformed a historic 1920s structure into a modern, wellness-focused workplace that reflects the company’s enduring values of innovation and community.
By removing an adjacent parking garage, the design introduces a vibrant four-season courtyard at the heart of the campus—encouraging connection, collaboration, and access to nature. The revitalized 8-acre brownfield site enhances local ecology and water quality, serving as a welcoming gateway to Springville.
client/developer
Clyde Companies
project size
120,000 sf Headquarters | 23,000 sf Event Hall
construction cost
$90M
Inside, open and adaptable workspaces maximize daylight, views, and flexibility for future growth. Mass timber construction celebrates material innovation and craftsmanship, embodying Clyde Companies’ spirit of progress and sustainability.
Education Civic Work
K nox College Whitcomb Art Center
GALESBURG, ILLINOIS
The Whitcomb Art Center creates a vibrant new home for Knox College’s arts programs while uniting disparate campus functions. The facility consolidates the studio art and art history departments in a daylit and cost-effective modern building anchored by a native landscaped courtyard. The design facilitates community and collaboration by opening painting, drawing and multimedia studios, ceramics, printmaking, photography and Senior Studios into a unified warehouse for art. Individual studios use movable and sliding partitions to create visual and acoustic privacy as needed.
Natural daylight floods the facility while creating specific daylighting qualities for each space from even north light to direct southern light respecting different mediums’ studio preferences. Situated at the northern edge of the campus and configured around a new plaza, the building also acts as a new central campus. The project achieved LEED Gold certification.
Client/developer
Knox College
Project size
29,502 sf
Construction cost
$8M
Sustainability
AIA COTE Top Ten, LEED Gold
Cedar Park Public Libary
CEDAR PARK, TEXAS
Located in the heart of the City’s mixed-use Bell District, the new Cedar Park Public Library will be a premier civic destination convenient to all those it serves. The Library was designed to leverage the natural features of the site — mature trees, summer breezes and orientation to capture daylight. The concept revolves around the porch as a welcoming threshold between the city and the park — a place that celebrates and encourages community, civic engagement, and an appreciation for reading and learning.
The two-story building features an iconic sculptural roof and is broken into two main wings. The North Wing houses the young adult collection, teen areas, public-facing maker spaces, classrooms and a large revenue-generating event room. The South Wing houses the adult collection and quiet reading rooms. Areas throughout both wings will include museum quality interactive exhibits. The glass lobby and second floor screened porch nestles between both and connects users to outdoor space including a courtyard, children’s outdoor play area, a pedestrian paseo, and the Backyard green space beyond.
Client/developer
City of Cedar Park
Project size
47,009 sf
Construction cost
$31M
Park City Arts & Culture District
PARK CITY, UTAH
At the time of the study and resulting concept design, the Park City Arts and Culture District included a partnership between Sundance Film Festival, the Kimball Art Center, and the City of Park City. The district’s design transformed an industrial brownfield site, formerly used for the disposal of mining tailings, into a vibrant communitycentric destination focused on film, visual art, dance, performance, and the roles these disciplines play in the evolving identity of Park City.
Sensitive to the scale of the historic city and the industrial context of the region, the district's design created a fully integrated mixed use community featuring artist housing, affordable live/work units, creative studios, performance and exhibition spaces, headquarters for local arts institutions, and retail activating outdoor rooms and plazas throughout the year. The design envisioned a walkable urban district tying together formerly disconnected surrounding neighborhoods, integrating into and completing the city’s extensive bicycle, trail, and transit networks.
Client/developer
Park City Municipal Corporation
Project size
167,000 sf conditioned, 377,000 sf unconditioned
Construction cost
$500M estimate
M
ontana State University
Gianforte Hall School
Of Computing
BOZEMAN, MONTANA
Combining the Gianforte School of Computing with Music Technology, Film and Photography Programs from the College of Arts and Architecture, this new building will be a welcoming hub of diverse, student- focused instructional spaces featuring classrooms, computing and robotics labs as well as recording, mixing and postproduction studios that showcase student projects and research. The proposed facility will facilitate student access to computing heightening the recognition of MSU as a national leader in computing and connecting the power of computing with music, film and performance programs.
Gianforte Hall is organized around the concept of an “Active Edge” housing collaboration and social spaces along its southern and eastern faces that take advantage of natural daylighting and the remarkable views of the surrounding distant landscape. The Active Edge frames, overlooks and connects to a new campus landscape featuring native plant species and housing a variety of instructional, social and performance spaces that extend the music and computing programs within the facility. In association with Hennebery Eddy.
client/developer
Montana State Univeristy
project size
58,072 sf construction
$39.7M
Firm Overview
"We
Believe in Creating Environments that Enrich Communities and Nurture Life"
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
Recognition
Lake Flato has been recognized with more than 400 international, national, and regional awards and featured in over 100 books and 250 publications.
FIRMWIDE
AIA Gold Medal Award
The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Practice Award, Southwest, XL Practice (2025, 2024, 2023)
#1 Ranked Architecture Firm by Architect 50
Texas Society of Architects O’Neil Ford Medal for Design Achievement
National Academy of Design Inductee
Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame Inductee
LOCUS Foundation Global Award for Sustainable Architecture
Cooper Hewitt Finalist for Architecture
Texas Medal of Arts
AIA Architecture Firm Award
INTERNATIONAL
ARCHITIZER A+ ARCHITECTURE AWARDS
Clinton Corners
Confluence Park
Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion
Marine Education Center
Alamo Beer Brewery
Austin Central Library
ARCHDAILY TOP 100 PROJECTS IN THE WORLD
ASU Health Services Building
Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion
CHICAGO ATHENAEUM AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Aegean Pool House
Ishawooa Mesa Ranch
Confluence Park
Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion
Ishawooa Mesa Ranch
Knox College Whitcomb Art Center
Marine Education Center
High Meadow Residence
CONGRESS FOR NEW URBANISM GLOBAL CHARTER AWARD
Pearl Brewery Redevelopment
Montgomery Park Master Plan
Trappey Riverfront District
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
Wood Design & Building award
Marine Education Center at the Gulf Coast
Research Laboratory
Hotel Magdalena
Trinity University Dickie Hall + Business and Humanities District
Soto Building
University of Denver Burwell Center for Career Achievement
Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion
NATIONAL
AIA ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Armstrong Oil & Gas
Carraro Residence
Confluence Park
Hill Country Jacal
Hog Pen Creek Residence
Lasater Residence
Pearl Brewery Redevelopment
World Birding Center
Holdsworth Center
AIA INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AWARD
House Zero
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 Eng. 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
The Universities at 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
Carver Academy
Cranbrook Kingswood Girls Middle School
Francis Parker School
Indian Springs School
St. John’s College Levan Hall
Awty International School
AIA HOUSING AWARD
1221 Broadway
Blue Lake Retreat
Hog Pen Creek Residence
Lake Austin Residence
Lake Tahoe Residence
AIA REGIONAL & URBAN DESIGN AWARD
Music Lane
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
West Texas Ranch
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION AWARD
Armstrong Oil & Gas Headquarters
Arizona State University Polytechnic Academic Buildings
Cutting Horse Ranch
Government Canyon Visitor Center
Triple-S Steel Supply Company
BUILDER’S CHOICE AWARDS
Lake Flato
Miller Porch House
Mill Springs Ranch
1221 Broadway Redevelopment
Hacienda Ja Ja
LC Ranch
Story Pool House
ECOHOME AWARD
Hacienda Ja Ja
ECO-STRUCTURE EVERGREEN AWARD
Full Goods Warehouse
METAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGN AWARD
Knox College Whitcomb Art Building
Spurs AT&T Center
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECT DESIGN AWARD
1221 Broadway Redevelopment
Broadford Farm Pavilion
Dog Team Too Loft & Studio
Hacienda Ja Ja
LC Ranch
Fall Creek Ranch
SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING AWARDS
Knox College Whitcomb Art Center
The Universities at Shady Grove Biomedical
Sciences & Engineering Education Building
U.S. WOODWORKS WOOD DESIGN AWARD
Friends Meetinghouse
LSU Hilltop Arboretum
Montgomery Park Porltand
Leadership In Energy & Environment
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 over 40 years ago, environmental concerns have been integral to our design approach .
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
Inclusive Collaboration
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.
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.
Living
Dixon Water Foundation Josey Pavilion (certified)
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