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    • Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Oviedo
  • Commercial Projects
    • CenterState Bank, Lake Wales
    • Peterson & Myers, P.A., Lake Wales
    • Stovash, Case & Tingley, P.A., Orlando
    • 145 Lincoln Avenue, Winter Park
    • Polk County School Board, Employee Health Clinic, Lakeland
    • Alexander Discovery Center, Bok Tower Gardens, Lake Wales
    • AVT Simulation, Orlando
    • Florida Joint and Spine Institute
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    • Fire Department, Lake Wales
    • Fire Station No. 2, Davenport
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    • McLaughlin Middle School, Lake Wales
    • Bartow Elementary Academy, Bartow
    • J.D. Alexander Center, Polk State College, Lake Wales
    • Eastside Elem., Historic Renovation and Classroom Addition, Haines City
  • Church Projects
    • First Presbyterian Church, Lake Wales
    • First Presbyterian Church, "The Rock", Lake Wales
  • Industrial Projects
    • Exotic Car Transport, Winter Garden
  • Special Projects
    • Clock Tower, Warner University, Lake Wales
    • Prayer Chapel, Life Enrichment Retreat Center, Leesburg
  • Unbuilt Projects
    • Spook Hill Elementary School, Lake Wales
    • Still Water Family Life Center, Haines City
    • Proposed School 1, Lake Wales
    • Proposed School 2, Lake Wales
    • Lakeshore Condominium, Lake Wales
    • McLaughlin Equestrian Center, Lake Wales
    • Proposed Office Building, Lake Wales
    • Agriculture Complex, Warner University, Lake Wales
    • Athletic Complex, Warner University, Lake Wales
    • School Facade Study
    • Proposed Gymnasium
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Architects - Post-Hurricanes

September 20, 2017

As summer 2017 drew to a close, for the first time in 166 years of weather records, two Category 4 Atlantic hurricanes hit the United States in the same season—just 16 days apart. Each brought its own superlatives: Harvey, the continental U.S.’s wettest storm ever, drenched southeast Texas with as much as 51 inches of rain, while Irma maintained a devastating maximum wind speed of 185 mph over a record- setting 37-hour period. Among Texas, Florida, and the Caribbean, where both storms brutally battered small island nations before making landfall on the continent, more than 130 lives were lost, and early estimates of total damages are approaching $300 billion.

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In some ways, both hurricanes proved less severe than expected. In Houston—the Harvey victim with the highest visibility—most hospitals in the Medical Center and many major cultural buildings (including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which is undergoing a significant expansion by Steven Holl Architects and Lake|Flato) went largely unscathed, apart from the expected flooding of below-grade construction sites and subterranean garages. Inhabitants of residential neighborhoods built on higher ground, located in the upper reaches of watersheds, and equipped with good drainage infrastructure saw significantly less flooding, with little to no water entering buildings.

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