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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE With a commitment to modern and skillful design, Lake Flato embraces the natural surroundings of each building to craft an environmentally friendly project specific to each client’s needs.
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Lake Flato Architecture by Rachel Goldberg
Lake Flato has been a leading architectural firm since 1984 due to its commitment to sustainable, modern and skillfully crafted designs. They use materials that are not only unique and modern but environmentally friendly and authentic. The company’s keen respect for the environment and emphasis on client collaboration allows them to work closely with their clients to put together projects that are highly responsive to the natural resources in which the site is encompassed. They recently completed work on a LEED-gold rated project at the Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus. The new facilities consist of five academic buildings with laboratory and classroom space for engineering, physics, anatomy and physiology, biology, chemistry, science, technology and math education. They are configured around three courtyards and linked by a series of open-air atriums, portals and arcades. “Through its practical and climatically responsive approach to architecture and concentration on landscape integration, the pedestrian friendly Polytechnic Campus entices students and faculty to stay on campus to interact and learn,” said architect Andrew Herdeg, A.I.A.. In addition to architects, Lake Flato 1. Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, Ariz. This is the conference tower and student porch at the School of Applied Arts. Photography © Bill Timmerman Photography. 4 Architecture Leaders Today
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2 View into the first floor office paddock from the east courtyard of Armstrong Oil and Gas, Denver, Co. Rolling barn doors with translucent panels provide offices with daylight. Photography Š FrankOoms.com. Summer 2010 5
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has 13 LEED Accredited Professionals, as well as a sustainability coordinator. The sustainable strategies they develop for each client have gained them national as well as international recognition. The firm has won 43 national design awards and four A.I.A. COTE Top Ten Green Awards, among others. They won several design awards for their adaptive re-use of a 1900s machine shop to create office space for Armstrong Oil & Gas in Denver, Colo. The office and meeting spaces are organized around a new central courtyard. The new design works within the existing building to create a fun, modern workplace. “The enclosed program was planned around existing elements in place creating generous, sophisticated spaces filled with daylight, natural ventilation and views to Denver’s skyline,” said Brian Korte, A.I.A., the Lake Flato design architect for the project. “Preserving a venerable building not only contributed to the historic nature of its context, but by keeping the existing scale and not building up vertically, the building maintains its relationship with the other vintage buildings on the street and remains a good neighbor.” Through the years Lake Flato has continuously created beautiful designs 3. Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, Ariz. View from the northwest of campus and the desert mall. Photography © Bill Timmerman Photography. 4. Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, Ariz. The student porch and conference room tower is made with a composite wood shade cover at school of agribusiness. Photography © Bill Timmerman Photography.
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DANYSH & ASSOCIATES Danysh & Associates has extensive experience with the varying soil conditions of South Texas; particularly the expansive clays. The firm recognizes the importance of details often overlooked. D&A has honed its skills in designing new structures better able to cope with the active soils while recognizing the economics and performance standards expected by the owner. D&A played a major role in assisting Lake Flato in projects around the South Texas area.
TEN EYCK LANDSCAPE Ten Eyck Landscape Architects’ mission is to connect the urban dweller with nature. With each project they create memorable outdoor spaces with a sense of place – whether it is a residential, public, or hospitality environment. They take inspiration from clients, collaborators and their sites’ region, history, and future. Ten Eyck Landscape Architects sculpt space into creative hardscapes and multi-sensory gardens that have purpose underlying their beauty: air and water purification, climate mitigation, and places for social interaction and human healing. Each client’s desires and site characteristics are woven together to create a unique engaging, restorative place for outdoor living.
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6 by fostering a collaborative open studio environment, which promotes teamwork as well as individuality, with the common goal of each employee being the best architect they can be. Lake Flato is able to promise innovative solutions that take in to account the best ideas presented by both clients, consultants as well as those whom a part of the firm. The firm not only prides itself on the awards and recognition generated by practical design solutions but they put just as much effort into making sure that their beautiful structures are highly energy efficient. ALT 6. The view of Armstrong Oil and Gas from Blake Street, Denver, Co. Lake Flato converted an existing building into a modern, luxurious office space. Photography © FrankOoms.com. 7. A folded steel plate stairwell with white oak plank “runner” in the Armstrong Oil and Gas building, Denver, Co. The stair is the primary vertical circulation for the building and winds around a steel clad volume that encloses the copy area on the first floor. Photography © FrankOoms.com 8 Architecture Leaders Today
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