Bank design evolves technology, empowered customers

By: Jan Buchholz Staff Writer-Austin Business Journal Bank design today is moving away from the dark woods, massive facades and deep green carpets meant to convey stability and toward brighter and more open layouts meant to appeal to today’s savvier and choosier banking customers. “Everything is tending away from … that institutional look and to a more [...]

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Amenities for the New Millenials

Design requires tapping into the Millennial zeitgeist for inspiration, which can be found in hotels, spas, restaurants or even a unique shop. By: Jill Lung Director of Interior Design and Shareholder, Sixthriver Architects In the past, student housing consisted of cinder-block walls, linoleum flooring and communal washrooms. Nowadays, student housing amenities and marketing are changing [...]

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W&C Architect Profile: Jeff Langham

      Sixthriver Architects is a full service architecture firm and the largest corporate interiors firm in Austin, Texas. The firm strives to demonstrate that inventive and elegant design is achievable, even within strict economic parameters, by respectfully listening and responding to the client’s needs and desires. The company started in 1994 in Austin [...]

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Buyer in place for high-profile Sixth and Congress property

By Shonda Novack, American-Statesman Staff     One of downtown Austin’s most high-profile sites is about to get a new owner — who plans to create new top tier office space on Congress Avenue. Stream Realty Partners has a contract to acquire a prime block on Congress Avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets, Lance Sallis, [...]

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Sixthriver ahead of the curve in Shareholder gender Equity

February 15th, 2013 By: Jan Bucholz, Staff Writer  (From left, Monia Katarina Villasenor, Jill Lung and Katie Farkash, Shareholders of Sixthriver Architects)  Sixthriver Architects named Katie Farkash as one of its principals, bringing the number of female shareholders in the firm to three and making it one of the more progressive local firms in terms [...]

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Texas Firms’ Newly Sleek Offices Take Cues from Tech Startups

By: Natalie Rodriguez, Law360, New York (January 04, 2013) When it’s time for an office redesign, some Texas law firms are taking cues from the local tech companies springing up in Austin, Houston and their client rosters by going with sleeker, wired and more space-efficient spreads — and the movement is just starting, experts say. [...]

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Sixthriver flows with steady stream of architecture, design work

Student housing, office projects mainstays of local firm By: Shonda Novak, American-Statesman Staff Coming soon to Congress Avenue: a new headquarters for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, renovations for the landmark Scarbrough and Littlefield buildings, and announcements about two more significant projects for Austin’s premier avenue. All the projects will bear the stamp of Sixthriver [...]

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Character Development

EDC Magazine Article by Sixthriver Shareholder, Eric Herron An increasingly aware culture now requires architects and designers to utilize creativity and best practices to success with renovation projects. Sustainable building isn’t just a progressive option for eco-conscious clients anymore, but rather the commercial development expectation of an increasingly aware culture. Responding to society’s growing collective [...]

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W&C Architect Profile: Eric Herron

Walls & Ceilings Online Architect Profile: Eric Herron November 30, 2012 Sixthriver Architects is a full service architecture firm and the largest corporate interiors firm in Austin, TX. The firm strives to demonstrate that inventive and elegant design is achievable, even within strict economic parameters, by  respectfully listening and responding to the client’s needs and desires. The [...]

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Prominent architect partners with Sixthriver in Austin

by Jan Buchholz, Staff Writer Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012, 9:08am CST Houston architect Ed Reh has joined Austin-based Sixthriver Architects as Director of StudioReh within Sixthriver Architects. Reh will split his time between the two cities and maintain his StudioReh practice. Reh’s designs during a 30-year career include a number of prominent Austin structures, including [...]

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