Stunning Lance Armstrong Livestrong Foundation with LEED Gold Renovation

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Located in Austin, Texas, the Lance Armstrong Foundation for many years had been working out of a corporate office building. Now thet want to find their new building design that matched their ideals of community and the environment. The non profit found its home in the 1950′s Gulf Coast Paper Co warehouse in East Austin and completely renovated the building into a beautifully day lit office space, reusing most of the original materials and landing themselves a LEED Gold certification for renovations.

Designed by San Antonio based Lake|Flato Architects in collaboration with The Bommarito Group, this new design expected to get LEED Gold. A large part of the original building was retained or reused and many materials found inside the warehouse were repurposed. The roof decking was taken down and remilled to build the office boxes, which serve as individual offices and meeting spaces creating a dynamic space within.

Existing glulam beams and concrete floors were repurposed into architectural elements, walls, and garden pathways. The old roof was exchanged for a series of gorgeous skylights the pull in lots of natural daylight into the space, reducing the need for artificial lighting. The LAF’s new headquarters were completed in March of 2009 and was awarded with its LEED certification later that year.

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source: inhabitat, livestrong, lakeflato, bommaritogroup

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