Featured Projects

Designed to appeal to the senses and evoke the natural environs of northern Michigan, the new Turtle Creek Casino and Hotel stands as a stunning example of modern architecture gone green. The 336,000 sq. ft. casino and hotel complex opened to rave reviews in June 2008. Walsh Bishop Architects of Minneapolis, MN, designed the new $80 million complex to sustainable standards. Featured on its exterior is approximately 75,000 sq. ft. of Reynobond Aluminum Composite Material, manufactured by Alcoa Architectural Products.

Tustin Legacy Magnet School in Tustin, CA, is a TIDE (technology, innovation, design, entrepreneurship) focused 6-12th grade campus. The campus has iconic neighbors, the historic U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Air Station (M.C.A.S.) North and South blimp hangars, which were constructed in 1942. After a careful product search, the design team selected Dri-Design Painted Aluminum Panels for the cladding to mimic the design inspiration.

While construction setbacks delayed the opening of the Tuttle Avenue School in Eastport, NY, the wait was well worth it for 450 students, many of whom had been attending classes in portable buildings behind another nearby school. The $28 million, 60,000 sq. ft. facility has achieved LEED gold certification, thanks in part to the incorporation of an Englert Series 2500 metal roof in its design.

The Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center - also serving as the Minnesota Vikings Team Headquarters and Practice Facility - exemplifies the team’s spirit, unity, and resilience. Through its design, it also nods to ancient Viking history, culture, country of origin, and forms including longships and their intricate jewelry. CENTRIA’s Formawall® high-performance building envelope was deemed the ideal product to fulfill Crawford Architects’ vision.

Insulated metal panels from Metl-Span – in a variety of profiles and colors – helped the Twin Rinks Ice Center at Eisenhower Park in Long Island, NY, achieve the architect’s desire for state-of-the-art durability, functionality and aesthetics.

A 6,500 sq. ft. addition to Two EE's Winery in Huntington, IN was completed in August 2019 by CME Corp., a Varco Pruden Builder located in Fort Wayne, IN. The project was selected as the winner in the Agricultural category of the 2020 Varco Pruden Hall of Fame Awards.

The proprietors of TWO-EE’s Winery, its board and community members broke ground in April 2012 for a 6,000 square-foot winery near Roanoke, Indiana. The result is a beautiful facility featuring products from Varco Pruden Buildings.

Everyone notices curves and everyone will notice the seven barrel roofs on the new Tyler Fire Station #5 in Tyler, Texas. They were created with the help of metal roofing panels from McElroy Metal of Shreveport, LA.

About half way between Dallas and the Louisiana border lies the growing community of Tyler, Texas. As the city continues to invest in the future, both in the private and public sectors, the Tyler Fire Station #5 provides a great example for what’s to come. It is topped with a curved metal roof from McElroy Metal, featuring panels finished with a premium Sherwin-Williams paint.

The very first thing that travelers now see when entering the United States in Champlain, NY is stunning etched metal fabric from Cambridge Architectural. Two different Cambridge mesh systems lend aesthetic appeal and functionality to the U.S. Land Port of Entry’s primary inspection booths and two processing facilities.

While not permitted to reveal the project’s location, Panel Built Inc., a Blairsville, GA-based manufacturer of prefabricated, relocatable structures, is nonetheless excited to share the highlights of an interesting project it completed for the United States Navy.

The U.S. Olympic Museum, showcasing the innumerable accomplishments of American athletes at the Games, opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado on July 30, 2020. Lorin anodized aluminum panels were chosen for the project because of their durability, low cost, malleability, environmentally friendly qualities, and color and finish.

Mother Nature has a big influence on construction scheduling, especially in Alaska. With the cold months of winter approaching fast, the general contractor charged with keeping the University of Alaska at Anchorage’s Alaska Airlines Center project on schedule wanted the building envelope to be closed-in as quickly as possible. By utilizing KarrierPanel™ and KarrierRail™ systems from Kingspan Insulated Panels, that goal was met quickly and easily.

Located in Denver, CO, Übergrippen Indoor Climbing Crag is a full-service climbing facility that offers a variety of indoor climbing challenges, youth programs, fitness areas, locker rooms, a pro shop and an outdoor patio. The facility features Rigid Frame construction by Varco Pruden Buildings.

Architect CannonDesign was tasked with designing the 41,000 square foot expansion of the University of Cincinnati (UC) Medical Center to increase its capacity and patient flow. As the growing region’s only Level I trauma center for adults, speed of build was of utmost importance. That's one of the reasons the architect opted to go with insulated metal panels (IMPs) from Kingspan Insulated Panels for the exterior envelope.

Banker Wire worked with ZGF Architects LLP to create a custom mesh railing infill for the South Tower building on UCLA’s Center for the Health Sciences (CHS) complex. The 443,000 sq. ft. building underwent a seismic upgrade and renovation to convert nine of the former hospital’s 12 floors into research lab space.

Coated metal panels create a wave-like scrim around the exterior of the University of California-Riverside's newly expanded Student Recreation Center. The panels were fabricated from aluminum plate and post-painted with a Bright Silver XL shade of Valspar’s Fluropon® premium paint.

The University Of California, San Francisco’s Helen Diller Family Research Building is a state-of-the-art research facility that provides a home for scientists investigating cancer’s basic biological cause. The building was designed to accommodate the work of researchers and clinicians who are dedicated to laboratory and clinical research, as well as patient care. The five-story building - featuring metal wall solutions from CENTRIA - was built according to LEED guidelines.

The Ultimate Soccer Arenas Complex's enormous size is not the only feature that sets this 267,000-square-foot arena apart from the rest. It was constructed, from the first beam to finishing exterior touches, in just 88 days. The speedy construction process can be attributed to the use of pre-engineered metal framing. The structure was built by Michigan-based Wolverine Steel Erectors, Inc. with materials supplied by Varco Pruden Buildings, one of the nation's largest providers of metal building system and a division of BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc.

More than 1,400 Dri-Design panels containing 3.3 million perforations were utilized to create an abstract design for one side of the new University of Massachusetts Lowell North Campus Parking Garage in Lowell, MA.