Armstrong Oil & Gas is featured on Architectural Record's web site.

The modern vernacular buildings of Lake|Flato Architects combine ingenuity and craftmanship with new technologies.  Hear our very own Mr. Flato share the firm's work and design philosophy at this year's (okay 2010's) Spotlight on Design on February 2 in DC. Spotlight on Design is an ongoing lecture series featuring architects and designers of distinction from around the world. Since its inception in 1997, the series has presented many of the world's premier design voices in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design.  Past Speakers include Pritzker Prize Laureates Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, and Rem Koolhaas; American Institute of Architects' Gold Medalists Antoine Predock, Santiago Calatrava, and Frank Gehry; and the American Society of Landscape Architects' Medal recipients Richard Haag and Joseph E. Brown.

Lake|Flato Architects picked up two Honor Awards, the highest given by AIA San Antonio, for the company’s design of Armstrong Oil & Gas’ offices in Denver and for the University Polytechnic Campus at Arizona State University in Mesa, AZ. Lake|Flato swept the Merit Awards with the Pearl Brewery’s Full Goods Building and Il Sogno restaurant, as well as the Wyatt Retreat.

The City of San Antonio was awarded an International Dowtown Association's Award of Distinction for Main Plaza. The heart of the City Redevelopment Project recieved the association's award in the Public Spaces category out of 77 award submissions.

Lake|Flato projects have been presented with two national education design awards at the AIA Convention: AIA CAE Educational Facility Awards for Francis Parker School and Arizona State University Polytechnic. Congratulations to all those who worked on these projects.

Best Adaptive Use – Full Goods Building at the Historic Pearl Brewery

Formally known as the “Full Goods Warehouse Building,” this addition to the original structure helped serve to consolidate all shipments out of the brewery. Now a 67,000-sqaure-foot mixed-use office, retail, restaurant and residential complex, with a multitude of inhabitants, the projects boasts an urban aesthetic that compliments the nourishing environment. As a “learning laboratory” for energy efficiency and environmental stewardship, the Full Goods Building is a component of the Pearl’s commitment to adaptive reuse and authentic re-purpose and organically inspires abundant opportunities to learn, discover and contribute.

Best Public-Private Partnership – Private – Solar Panel Installation at the Historic Pearl Brewery

As a public/private partnership between CPS Energy and Pearl Brewery owner Silver Ventures, this solar panel installation atop the Full Goods building has established San Antonio as a leader in solar energy generation in Texas. The $1.35 million project, funded with $950,000 from Silver Ventures and $400,000 from CPS Energy, now generates approximately one quarter of the building’s energy needs. The project aims to educate and demonstrate how to best make a solar energy program work in an economically viable way.

Best Construction Restoration – Smokestack at the Historic Pearl Brewery

Best New Retail – Melissa Guerra Culinary Store at the Historic Pearl Brewery

Check out the "Our Home" page in the "About Us" section of the Lance Armstrong Foundation's web site. See photos, learn why they moved where they moved, get information about the environmental friendliness of their new building, and more. There's even a shout out for the architects! (Guess who?)

For those that are keeping count, this is Lake|Flato's FOURTH Top Ten Green project in three years! The World Birding Center and School of Nursing won in 2006, followed by Government Canyon in 2007.

From theMarch issue of Texas Monthly..."A tour of our greatest architectural masterpieces -- from the Alamo to the World Birding Center..." by Michael Ennis

#10 World Birding Center "...sustainability is rapidly becoming to this century what functionalism was to the last...the best designs of this century will be machines that use far less energy and fewer resources. The World Birding Center completes a circle for Texas architecture, proving that looking back doesn't preclude moving forward with creative panache."