(L-R) The LPA team accepting the awards: Project Designer Katie Cavazos, Project Interior Designer Cecilia Gutierrez and Design Coordinator Hannah Oppelt.
LPA Celebrates Three Wins at IIDA Texas Awards
Interior design team recognized for achievement in education, community and civic projects.
LPA Design Studios recently received three honors for excellence in design at the International Interior Design Association, San Antonio City Center’s (IIDA SACC) annual awards event.
The recognition at the Imagine That 2025 Spotlight Awards included the Best in Center award for overall contribution to interior design, and awards for excellence in education and community & culture interior spaces.
IIDA awards recognize outstanding contributions “from achievement in innovative techniques and furnishings to originality, form and function, and extraordinary design solutions.”
LPA earned the local IIDA chapter’s top award in the Education category for the design of Casis Elementary, a new campus in Austin, Texas, with learning environments shaped around collaboration spaces and flexible work areas.
Casis Elementary School, Austin, TX
In the Community and Culture category, LPA was honored for work on the expansion of the Wimberley Village Library, which doubled the size of the existing library, creating new youth and teen spaces and reading areas, a craft lab and demo kitchen, and a free access multi-purpose room for community use.
Wimberley Village Library, Wimberley, TX
“We are grateful to IIDA San Antonio for celebrating design that makes a difference,” said LPA Project Interior Designer Cecilia Gutierrez. “We couldn’t do this without the partnership of clients and communities.”
