Featured Projects

After more than five years of planning within an unusual public-private partnership, a spectacular new village administration building has been completed in Mundelein Village, Ill. Featuring metal products from Petersen, the two-story, 32,000 sq. ft. structure, which achieved LEED Gold status, replaces an aging building that served as the town’s headquarters since 1929.

Situated atop a silty bluff where aboriginal hunters once stood to look toward the Alaskan range, the Alaska Museum of the North at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks makes a stunning visual statement. Visible for miles in every direction, the building was designed to convey a sense of Alaska with innovative lines & spaces evoking images of alpine ridges, glaciers breaking up on the Yukon River and the Aurora. It was designed by Hammel, Green & Abrahamson of Minneapolis, MN, in partnership with Anchorage-based GDM, and is skinned entirely in Reynobond® ACM by Alcoa Architectural Products.

The Museum Residences, part of an urban spatial composition anchored by the new Denver Art Museum expansion, are wrapped in transparent and opaque glass and accented with dramatic diagonal RHEINZINK® panels. Designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind, New York, and Davis Partnership Architects, Denver, the $32 million, 126,000 sq. ft. project includes 55 luxury condominiums that offer “gallery-inspired living.”

Founded in 1983, Musician’s Friend has grown rapidly to become the world’s largest direct marketer of music gear. Their vision is to give musicians the best prices and selection available, along with superior service to help musicians achieve their goals in music. A new 64,800 sq. ft. Wildeck® mezzanine now stands in the middle of their 700,000 sq. ft. distribution center in Kansas City, MO to help utilize the vertical space and manage the 36,000 products Musician’s Friend carries.

Anodized aluminum from Lorin® was selected for a pivotal role in the construction of the new Muskegon Museum of Art. This strategic partnership underscores Lorin’s commitment to excellence in material innovation and the museum’s vision of establishing a cutting-edge cultural landmark.

Size mattered when planning one of Michigan’s newest, most technologically advanced dairy plants. But so did speed of construction, which is why two types of insulated panels from Kingspan Insulated Panels - North America were utilized for the construction of the new 400,000-square-foot MWC dairy processing plant in St. Johns.

For more than 100 years, Denver’s Washington Park has been treasured as an urban oasis for outdoor recreation. Now, the new My Block Washington Park Apartments offer a nearby luxury living option that is also a convenient gateway to the nightlife, entertainment and cultural venues of downtown Denver. Adding to the project's upscale urban vibe is a creative and sophisticated façade anchored by RHEINZINK architectural zinc.

The $129 million Myrtle Beach airport expansion project is a 274,000-square-foot addition that includes a new ticketing lobby, baggage claim, baggage handling, TSA screening and a new five-gate concourse and connector bridge to the existing concourse. CENTRIA architectural metal products played a significant role in the design.

The new Myrtle Beach Middle School in Myrtle Beach, S.C., offers a vision of the future, in both its eye-catching design and award-winning performance. The school, like four other new elementary and middle schools opened in less than two years by the Horry County School District, is engineered to be net-energy positive. A bold color scheme was created with broad expanses of PAC-CLAD Precision Series metal panels from Petersen.

When commercial contractor Nabholz Corp. decided its Rogers, Ark. campus needed a way to bring disparate teams together, they turned to longtime collaborator Modus Studio for the design. The result is a light-filled cube with a distinctive exterior notable for its minimalist blending of concrete, glass and ribbed metal wall panels from Petersen.

Rigid Frame metal building systems by Varco Pruden Buildings are prominently featured as part of the Nacarato Volvo facility in La Vergne, TN. The 80,270 sq. ft. truck sales and service center is comprised of two buildings. The main building - housing sales, parts and service operations - measures 56,750 sq. ft., while a 23,520 sq. ft. body repair and paint shop building is also situated on 12 acres of paved area.

Expectant parents have several options when it comes to delivering a healthy baby. Those choices are now under one roof at Nash Women’s Center in Rocky Mount, NC. The state-of-the-art birthing center features the latest technology and trends in healthcare. This concept is reflected by its exterior design with the use of metal wall panels from Dri-Design.

The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County undertook an aggressive plan to replace six aging Tennessee fire stations and provide more functional and energy efficient buildings to better serve the community. The six stations are seeking or have received LEED certification and all were clad with Petersen Aluminum’s Snap-Clad aluminum panels.

The 115,000-square-foot Concourse D at Nashville International Airport opened in July 2020 with six new aircraft gates for domestic travelers. The new terminal has the latest traveler amenities but that's only the half of it. The terminal is also LEED® Silver certified, thanks in part to the use of insulated metal panels from Kingspan Insulated Panels North America for its construction.

Metal building systems offer the flexibility to blend in with virtually any environment, as evidenced in the construction on the Nason Medical Center in North Charleston, South Carolina. This facility was designed with vigilant consideration to four large oak trees that were to remain undisturbed. Metal building systems by Metallic Building Company played a prominent role in the construction.

Opened in 1972, the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum had honored the military sacrifice of local veterans in Long Island’s Nassau County and served as home to the one-time American Basketball Association’s New York Nets and the National Hockey League’s New York Islanders as well as hosted major events and concerts. The facility was extensively renovated and reopened in 2017 with a new look that features aluminum composite material from 3A Composites.

The Natalie L. Haslam Music Center is the newly constructed home of the University of Tennessee School of Music in Knoxville. The facility houses technology-enhanced classrooms, practice rooms, performance studios/academic offices, an organ studio, a recital hall, a music library and much more. CENTRIA products were featured in the facility’s design.

A Cambridge Architectural MeshDefense™ mesh solution defines the boundaries of the exterior dining area for the National Archives Southeast Region in Morrow, GA, complying not only with the building’s contemporary design, but also with National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) security regulations. Although the contents of the building are historical, the design of the new, $22 million, 117,000-square-foot Southeast Regional Archives facility has a forward focus.

The 160,000 square foot laboratory building in Frederick, MD, for the National Biodefense Analysis And Countermeasures Center (NBACC) is distinguished by the fact that it is also the first security compartmented information facility (SCIF) - biocontainment - in the United States. Metal panels from CENTRIA played an important role in the creation of this unique facility.

The design of National Metal Sales’ significant expansion of its headquarters facility in Romulus, Mich., has been described as achieving “a classy look in its industrial setting.” NMS, a full-service sheet metal distribution and fabrication center, selected Petersen Aluminum’s Precision Series Horizontal Wall Panels to get the look it wanted.