At first glance, Make Ready Market feels truly modern — a bright, open gathering space filled with conversations and delectable fast casual dining choices. But beneath that energy is a carefully layered story of adaptive reuse. Located in San Antonio’s River North district, Make Ready Market officially came to life in late 2023, transforming a…
Historic Brick Building Is Transformed into Modern Offices Built in 1928 as a furniture showroom, The Allen is a striking, historic brick building with intricate stone detailing, located in the Monte Vista Historic District of San Antonio, Texas. Once home to Allen’s Flowers & Antiques, this preservation effort restores the building to its former glory, safeguarding its…
Make Ready Market & Idle Beer Hall recently won a 2025 Best Projects Award from Engineering News Record – ENR Texas & Louisiana region in the Best Renovation/Restoration category. An ENR Best Projects Award is considered one of commercial construction’s most prestigious and coveted honors. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the teams who created the…
Check out one of our projects in the San Antonio Business Journal! Ridgemont Properties, Inc., a returning client of Studio8, is bringing two food and beverage concepts and a neighborhood office space that champion the evolution of the City of Alamo Heights’s pedestrian experience and built environment. Working with much of the existing structure and…
Retrofit Team Architect, Interior Design: Studio8 Architects, studio8architects.com Design Architect: Overland Partners, www.overlandpartners.com Collaborators: Architexas, architexas.com and Hutson Gallagher, hutsongallagher.com The Retrofit Nestled in Austin’s urban core, ACC’s historic Rio Grande Campus represents an educational legacy, having served the community for more than a century. The overarching challenge was to transform the building into a…