Featured Projects

It is a special thing to have a private airstrip in your backyard. Don Smith Jr. knew he wanted a similarly special hangar on his Pennsylvania property to go along with it. Featuring a custom designed hydraulic door from Schweiss Doors, the hangar is exactly what Smith had in mind.

When speakers at the groundbreaking ceremony include the sitting President of the United States, you know the building is important. And so it went when President Barack Obama stepped to the podium to commemorate the beginning of construction on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. The building is special and so is the Valspar Corporation's multi-layer paint system that finishes the building's custom aluminum cladding.

The design of this 20,204 square-foot Social Security Administration office in Brownsville, Texas, was influenced by several governmental regulations calling for office staff to work in cubicles. As a result, the project required flexibility in the design of the interior—so, in order to avoid obstructive columns, clear span construction was the obvious choice. Overall, the pre-engineered metal building by Metallic Building Company was chosen because of its durability and ability to withstand strong winds in inclement weather.

Solar Atmospheres of California (SCA), located in Fontana, CA, provides state-of-the-art vacuum thermal processing services. In response to the challenges of California’s energy market, SCA commissioned and installed the state’s largest commercial solar + energy storage system. Products from Colorado Springs, CO-based S-5! played a key role in helping bring the project to fruition.

Solar Innovations’® new 155,000 square foot facility in Pine Grove, PA, showcases the specialty glass enclosure manufacturer’s products complemented by a state-of-the-art, custom-designed manufacturing facility constructed by Hoover Building Specialists, LLC, a Ceco Building Systems authorized builder since 1992.

Solis is no ordinary apartment building. Located in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, the project is the end result of efforts by designers, visionaries and artisans to create a one-of-a-kind building targeting Passive House Certification. Not surprisingly, the doors marking the building's grand entrance are one-of-a-kind too. Featuring ornate custom grilles, they were manufactured by Fairfax, MN-based Schweiss Doors.

SOLO On Chestnut sits at the corner of 43rd and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia. The 250,000 sq. ft., 7-story multi-use building features over 280 luxury apartments and various retail stores, offering state-of-the-art living in the epicenter of University City, just blocks away from the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. Featured on the exterior are Omega-Lite® ACM panels from Laminators Incorporated.

An all-too-typical problem had surfaced in the Somerset Independent School District in South Central Texas: the junior high school built in 1986 for 350 students now housed 600. Enter a $13 million bond issue, Gamma Construction, OCO Architects and Ceco Building Systems, and now the students are comfortably housed in a spacious, extremely striking metal and glass facility.

Soraa, a leading developer of solid-state lighting products, was established on the principles of revolutionary product research and development. It’s only fitting that the company’s new, 82,500-square-foot manufacturing facility showcases the industry’s most modern, high-performance building envelope technology by Metl-Span.

Sometimes it’s the little things that count. Case in point is the Sorensen Station Parkade and Transit Terminal in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. The design of the three-story parking deck was elevated significantly by the incorporation of a relatively small amount of 4mm-thick Prismatic-finish ALPOLIC/fr aluminum composite material (ACM). Burnt orange-colored Prismatic-finish ACM panels trim the structure’s curved rooftop canopy while multiple colors of Prismatic-finish panels adorn the parking structure’s sidewalls.

The leaders of the Soul City Church on Chicago’s west side sought help with plans for expansion to meet the needs of a growing congregation. The project evolved into a 29,000 square foot addition and 20,000 square foot renovation of the existing building, complete with insulated metal panels from Metl-Span.

Among the more than 175 diplomatic missions in Washington, D.C., few stand out more than the South African Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue’s Embassy Row. Marked by its iconic Nelson Mandela statue, the embassy’s twin Dutch Colonial buildings are now joined in the middle by a new glass atrium shaded with a striking Cambridge Architectural wire mesh façade.

Metalwërks® provided design assistance and materials for highly-customized, vertically-oriented exterior louver fins for the South Boston Waterfront Transportation Center. Located in the dynamic Seaport District of Boston, MA, and partially spanning the existing I-90 tunnel structure, the new facility covers 650,000 square feet and contains around 1,500 parking spaces across nine levels.

Originally built in 1978, the South Florida Community College (SFCC) Theatre for the Performing Arts received a complete renovation, reopening in 2010. Now seating 1460 people, the interior glows with the contrast of brass architectural mesh panels–created with woven mesh by Cambridge Architectural–against red velvet trim and upholstery.

The South Seattle (Washington) Transfer and Recycling Center has been transformed into a more advanced transfer station, thanks to the hard work of PHI Construction Inc., an American Buildings Company authorized Builder. As a result, PHI Construction received Building of the Year honors in the 2013 American Buildings Company Excellence in Design Awards competition.

The South Shore Bone and Joint Center is one of the latest improvements to the South Shore Hospital Health System. A joint venture of the South Shore Hospital and South Shore Orthopedics, this new outpatient facility will serve more than 700,000 residents in the southeastern Massachusetts region. Architectural metal products from CENTRIA played a key role in the facility’s design.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the South Street Seaport was revitalized as an entertainment and retail destination for Manhattan locals and New York visitors. Within this re-emerging East River waterfront community, Pier 17 rises as a beacon of shops, restaurants and public spaces. The 300,000-square-foot building showcases an attractive, resilient four-story façade featuring wall panels made with RHEINZINK prePATINA® zinc.

It was built in hopes of encouraging students to stay and utilize resources on campus. If the building’s appearance plays any role in such decisions, then surely the goal has been met. Clad in brick, the North Academic Classroom building on the McAllen campus of South Texas College is made more inviting by the presence of colorful Thermolite ACM panels from Laminators Inc.

South Texas College officially opened its Technology Campus expansion in McAllen, Texas, in January 2018. The $9.3 million 72,000-square-foot STC Technology Campus expansion features offices and classrooms as well as computer, training and robotics labs and sits adjacent to the current campus.The project features 15,200 square feet of Alucobond® aluminum composite material by 3A Composites USA.

The South Texas Research Facility is the newest addition to the University of South Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. The length of approximately three football fields, this $150 million facility provides an additional 200,000 square feet of medical research space. Featured in the design are architectural metal products from CENTRIA.