When the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio shut down in 2001 after 120 years of operation, it left behind a 22-acre, asphalt-covered site in a crime-ridden part of town.
A Prescription for Campus Care: Lake|Flato renovates and expands an outdated health-services facility at Arizona State University, Tempe. Built as two structures in 1953 and 1968, the Health Services'Tempe Building (HSTB) at Arizona State University (ASU) had become inefficient and out of rhythm with the vibrant, growing campus around it. Designed by San Antonio'based Lake | Flato in collaboration with architect of record Orcutt | Winslow of Phoenix, the overhauled, 36,900-square-foot HSTB is light-filled, inviting, and designed for LEED Platinum certification. Its gardenlike environment is a refuge for the campus's 60,000 students when they need medical treatment and guidance. Located
A single-story, 30,000-square-foot headquarters for the Livestrong Foundation, with office space, meeting rooms, a courtyard, a gym, and a resource center for cancer patients. Located in East Austin, the facility is an adaptive reuse of a concrete tilt-up paper warehouse built in the 1950s.
The notion of a camp compound appealed to the project’s client, an active family wanting to be outdoors as much as possible at their vacation home near the north shore of Lake Tahoe, Nevada.