Featured Projects

INS Bank expanded its reach in Tennessee with the recent opening of another branch in Brentwood, a Nashville suburb. The new location has a strong professional appearance with the addition of VMZINC® Series Panels by Dri-Design. The design team at MJM Architects, Nashville, worked with the owner’s initial design concept for the building.

More than 5,000 linear feet of Flex-C Arch™ and Flex-C Trac® from Flex-Ability Concepts were used to bring to life the unique architectural theory utilized in designing the interior office space for Intech’s headquarters in West Palm Beach, FL. Intech, an institutional money management firm, has taken the top two floors of the new City Place Tower. The 18-story building offers 300,000 sq. ft. of Class A office space. Intech’s 50,000 sq. ft. of space was designed by Jalali Design, Los Angeles.

“God is in the details” is a phrase often attributed to the great modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and it certainly seems to apply to a recently transformed derelict printing plant into Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Integrated Architecture’s new headquarters. Of particular note is the care installers of the building’s exterior PAC-CLAD metal cladding took in creating the structure’s bespoke corners.

Integrated Medical Systems International (IMS) moved one of its repair facilities into a newly renovated, 55,000 square-foot operations center in Birmingham, AL. The new facility features offices, conference and training space, and space for technicians to perform lab work. Its exterior is adorned with Sunset Red and Slate Gray metal wall panels from Laminators Inc. of Hatfield, PA.

SAF Metal Fabrication designed and fabricated the 5,000 sq. ft. of .125" aluminum plate wall panels that wrap the columns and beams of a monumental canopy outside the entrance to Boston's recently completed Intercontinental Hotel. The hotel was designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects of Boston, and the panels, which feature a custom Atlantic Silver PDVF paint finish by PPG, were installed by Karas & Karas Glass of South Boston.

Sited for maximum visibility from the North Texas Tollway and George W. Bush Turnpike, the $30 million International Business Park XV opened to corporate tenants in January 2009. NOW Specialties of Carrollton, TX, fabricated and installed the project’s 2,000 sq. ft. of Reynobond Aluminum Composite Material, featuring a 4mm PE core and a Champagne Metallic paint finish, and 8,500 sq. ft. of Reynobond Natural Brushed Aluminum ACM, featuring a 4 mm PE core and a #4 polished finish, for the entrance rotunda.

Brilliant splendor describes New York’s newest skyscraper, the 34-story International Gem Tower, which opened mid-2013 on West 47th Street in the heart of the Diamond District. Inspired by its setting and diamonds themselves, the building’s design features angular geometry and a faceted exterior rendered in stainless steel supplied by Contrarian Metal Resources of Allison Park, PA.

The new International Magnet School for Global Citizenship – featuring metal roofing from Petersen Aluminum - has opened in South Windsor, Conn. As part of the Capitol Region Education Council, the school will foster the education and development of 530 students from pre-K through fifth grade. CREC is a non-profit, regional educational organization serving 35 public school districts in the greater Hartford, Conn., area.

Visitors to the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, NE will immediately notice a different kind of fabric – architectural mesh – draping the expansive windows of the venue and dividing the space within. Cambridge Architectural’s Solucent™ metal mesh interior application is suspended in tension parallel to the museum’s windows inside the building. The mesh shades the sun and eases the light gradually as patrons walk through, while Cambridge’s LandscapeInteriors™ system fashionably divides the interior space. Each Cambridge system employs lustrous woven metal fabric – complementing the building’s theme perfectly.

No one would be surprised to learn that the new Interstate Batteries store in Waco, TX was designed and built using a metal building system. The dark green metal roof, the tan-colored R-panels and even the building’s overall appearance are pretty good clues. What might raise a few eyebrows, however, is that the stone base and stucco-like walls wrapping the front of the building were also off-the-shelf products offered by the project’s metal building manufacturer, Rigid Global Buildings of Houston.

On Chicago’s Northwest Side, Intrinsic Schools’ new 58,000-square-foot Belmont Campus transforms a former lumberyard into a contemporary educational facility. The public charter school building showcases a distinctive, patterned facade with multiple components finished in Valspar’s Fluropon® 70 percent polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) resin-based exterior coatings. Among them were insulated metal panel systems from Kingpan Insulated Panels.

Four ice rinks are key components of the 179,550 square foot INVISTA Centre in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The facility features a variety of metal construction products from American Buildings Company, based in Eufaula, Alabama. This project used tapered column, rigid frame metal building framing by American Buildings, along with the company’s Standing Seam 360 roofing system and Architectural III wall panels.

After literally two decades in the planning, the new Iowa City Fire Station #4 is complete and providing improved service to the northeast section of Iowa City, Iowa. Located on a high-visibility site, the LEED Gold facility - featuring roof, wall and soffit panels from Petersen Aluminum - establishes a prominent visual presence for the fire department in the center of the service area.

Creating unforgettable culinary experiences is what the Iowa Culinary Institute at Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny does well. Students and staff at the institute now do this in an expanded space with an unforgettable façade created by Dri-Design Shadow Series Wall Panels and Aluvium finish wall panels.

A Fabricoil™ architectural coiled wire fabric system again “got the part” when iPic Entertainment incorporated it into a luxury cinema location that opened in late 2014 on Wilshire Boulevard in the Westwood section of Los Angeles.

An unorthodox curvature of architectural mesh–supplied by Cambridge Architectural of Cambridge, MD–gives the new Iron Horse Trail Pedestrian Bridge in Contra Costa County, CA an unconventional design while providing safety for people on the bridge and those in cars passing underneath.

The new Ironclad mixed-use development in Minneapolis stands out in the historic Mill District’s cityscape with a unique metal-clad angular design that is equal parts historic inspiration and contemporary urban chic. Aluminum composite material cladding was supplied by 3A Composites USA.

Ironstone Bank’s Memorial Drive office in Oklahoma City, OK, reflects the institution’s desire to have its quality of customer service be represented by the quality of its facilities. Ironstone, a subsidiary of First Citizens BancShares Inc., has 58 offices in 12 states and the bank regards its buildings as physical symbols of the company’s stability and strength. Flex-Ability Concept’s Flex-C Trac® and Flex-C Arch products helped frame the impressive bank lobby rotunda and provide a signature look for the facility.

One of the vestiges of Beloit, Wisconsin's industrial roots is the Beloit Corporation steel-making plant. Ultimately closing in 1999, the old industrial complex stands not as a symbol of Beloit's decline, but rather its resilience. Renamed Ironworks, the property is now a vibrant, multi-tenant commercial campus. Where new walls have gone up and interior spaces transformed, Cor-Ten steel panels from McElroy Metal have become a familiar sight.

The Irwin Seating Company is an audience-seating manufacturer located just east of Lake Michigan. Irwin’s seats grace theaters and stadiums all around the world from Carnegie Hall in New York City to Dewan Filharmonik in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The fourth-generation family company planned to expand one of its top-selling product lines, which also required a facility increase - calling for architectural metal products from CENTRIA.