Articles by David M. Brown

A Prescription for Campus Care: Lake|Flato renovates and expands an outdated health-services facility at Arizona State University, Tempe.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

As part of a young and fast-growing metropolitan area, Tempe, Arizona, doesn’t have a lot of historic buildings.

The Tempe Center for the Arts, dubbed “our little Sydney Opera House,” opens this weekend. Like its distant Down Under cousin, the $65.7 million performance hall overlooks a body of water: in this case the Tempe Town Lake, a recreational lake created when the long-dry Salt River was reclaimed during the 1990s. Photos: Courtesy City of Tempe Barton Myers Associates and Architekton collaborated on the design of the Tempe Center for the Arts, which opens this weekend. The city’s former mayor Neil Giuliano, who helped get the project going during his term as mayor between 1994 and 2004, dubbed the