Featured Projects

Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia is a study in conservative Protestant history. From the outside, the red brick Tudor Revival buildings reflect their historical surroundings while the interiors reflect growth, change and development. The Presbyterian institution has been redefining and transforming some of its buildings. One of those subject to recent transformation is the Spence Library. To help turn it into a state-of-the-art environment for teaching and worship, Glavé & Holmes turned to GKD-USA.

With the backing of the world’s largest coffeehouse chain behind it, no efforts were spared to ensure the Washington, DC Union Station Starbucks location was inviting. But given the high traffic volume, its finishes also had to be durable. Seeking a reliable and aesthetically pleasing finish for both the interior and exterior walls, the in-house designers at Starbucks employed ALPOLIC ACM panels for a much-desired clean and modern look.

United Bank’s branch and corporate office has been a staple in Grand Rapids, MI, for years. Bank executives recently wanted to improve the banking experience and its headquarters functionality at the dated site with an exterior and interior renovation. Citadel Architectural Products’ Envelope 2000® metal composite material (MCM), installed using the RainScreen (RS) attachment system, was selected for the exterior.

United Therapeutics is a biotech company focusing on innovations in the fields of cardiovascular medicine, infectious diseases and cancer. The company’s research and development facility is nestled away in the tall white pines of North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. Reflecting the high-tech nature of the activities within, the building’s exterior is a mix of aluminum composite metal wall panels and glass. Altech Panel Systems of Carterville, GA, fabricated the sleek metal wall panels from ALPOLIC aluminum composite material by Mitsubishi Chemical FP America Inc.

The Ben White Branch of the University Federal Credit Union (UFCU) in Austin, TX uses curved panels from Kalzip to create a unique but highly functional element of this dynamic green building. The facility actually has two of these unique cylindrical aluminum sheaths. One encircles a cistern that is part of the building’s rainwater collection system and the other is a sign that replicates the cover on the cistern.

The new University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio is a $298-million 432,000 square-foot medical center which includes both a seven-story 144-bed hospital and a three-story outpatient medical building. The hospital is designed with a seven-story curved curtain wall filled with glass and accent bands fabricated from Alucobond® Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) by 3A Composites USA. Alucobond also clads a large portion of the medical center’s exterior walls, as well as other exterior and interior surfaces.

The University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro is one of the most technologically-advanced, environmentally-friendly hospitals in the country. Every design decision for the $523 million, 636,000-square-foot building was based on the New Jersey facility’s ability to promote healing, patient comfort and safety. A variety of metal products from CENTRIA are featured on the hospital.

Chapman Sisson Architects of Huntsville collaborated with Banker Wire, a worldwide leader in the manufacture of wire mesh for architectural and industrial applications, to design attractive and unique mesh panels for the front of a new parking structure at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The material selected for the panels was Banker Wire’s M13Z-145 architectural woven wire mesh, a heavy, large scale, and rigid cable weave design.

Stainless steel fabric and a modified attachment system by Cambridge Architectural of Cambridge, MD, were among the products used to create a unique shade structure for the rooftop courtyard at the University of Arizona’s newly constructed Medical Research and Thomas Keating Bioresearch buildings. Featured on the project were 240 Solar pattern metal fabric panels. They were mounted using a modified version of the manufacturer's Railway attachment system.

The striking new Sixth Street Residence Hall at the University of Arizona in Tucson features a dramatic application of Dri-Design’s new Ombrae™ Imaging Technology. Ombrae was developed by artist and Hollywood set designer Roderick Quin and uses an advanced computer software system to cut three-dimensional pixels in Dri-Design panels.

The University of Calgary’s Child Development Centre is the largest project in Canada to achieve LEED Platinum certification. The 125,000 sq. ft. facility focuses on supporting organizations working together for the benefit of children. With the University mandating that all new capital projects be built to a high level of sustainability, options for the building's north and south exterior facades were eventually narrowed to 1.2mm RHEINZINK® zinc panels. Approximately 25,000 sq. ft. of the Preweathered Graphite Grey horizontal reveal panels were utilized on the four-story building.

The largest planned net zero energy community in the United States features more than 40,000 total linear feet of metal wall, roof and canopy panels from Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation. The University of California, Davis West Village community comprises 205 acres with 662 apartments, 343 single-family homes, and commercial and recreational facilities.

Thom Mayne, founder of Morphosis and the 2005 Pritzker Prize Winner, in association with KZF Design, Inc,. is one of the innovative minds behind this extremely complex facility. The University of Cincinnati Campus Housing and Recreation Center is designed as five buildings in one—an athletic core, six electronic classrooms, housing, restaurants/dining, and stadium grandstands comprise the 350,000 square foot complex. A key element of the design CENTRIA’s Formawall® Dimension Series® wall panels.

Designed by renowned architect Peter Eisenman, and opened in 1996, the Aronoff Center linked together the previously existing Alms, DAAP and Wolfson buildings to form the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning. When the original EIFS façade failed, Overly was selected to design a rainscreen panel system that could meet the structure’s performance challenges while maintaining the architectural integrity of the original design.

A Dri-Design Wall Panel System has helped turn the 1700 South Patterson Building on the University of Dayton's River Campus into a stunning academic and research building. While interior renovations transformed the structure into usable university space, the building’s exterior was reclad with metal panels from Dri-Design in two phases during 2012 and 2013, with work finishing in October 2013. This renovation added an earthy, inviting feel to the building while eliminating safety concerns.

In May of 2009, the University of Hawaii’s Biomedical Sciences building in Honolulu underwent a $1.1 million facelift and remodel. Included in the work, was a metal-over-metal retrofit utilizing approximately 18,000 square feet of new standing seam metal roofing. The new roof was installed over the existing vertical rib metal roof using Roof Hugger’s patented sub-purlins.

The University of Houston baseball program has a new 20,645-square-foot clubhouse facility, complete with a locker room, training room, batting cages, players’ lounge, video area, observation deck and kitchen … all right next to the Cougars’ field. Insulated metal panels from Metl-Span cover the walls of the new Baseball Player Development Center and Clubhouse, providing an energy efficient shell for all seasons.

When the University of Illinois decided to continue with its ongoing renovation projects to include a new Memorial Stadium Performance Center, the school looked to Schweiss Doors to supply bifold designer doors for the upper floor.

No stranger to the University of Iowa campus, architect Steven Holl’s new Visual Arts Building provides 126,000 sq. ft. of loft-like space within a beautifully crafted envelope. The structure presents an industrial aesthetic with RHEINZINK-clad, poured-in-place concrete walls, used in conjunction with perforated stainless-steel panels that rest 7 inches from the RHEINZINK cladding.

James & Taylor’s award-winning façade for the University of Manchester’s biosciences building in Manchester, UK, was created using four different anodized finishes that coated both mirror polished and highly-etched Senses aluminium (aluminum) tiles. The stunning result on the Michael Smith building was due to a close collaboration between the façade specialist and architects Sheppard Robson. It features a ‘random’ pattern that ensured the different finishes were distributed across the elevation to give a cohesive façade.