Featured Projects

Opened in the spring of 2018, The Forge, a 272-unit luxury residential tower on Long Island in New York, features a façade of copper-colored anodized aluminum cladding. Designed by FXCollaborative, its distinctive, artistically inspired, industrial-influenced exterior is composed of Dri-Design's aluminum wall panel system finished by Linetec. The project is pursuing LEED® Silver certification.

If there's a right balance between style and affordability, the developers behind The Forge On Broadway in Buffalo, NY, seem to have struck it. Conceived to provide affordable 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom units for tenants meeting income caps, the 159-unit, three-story project offers plenty of amenities and boasts curb appeal to boot, thanks in part to the incorporation of Omega-Lite ACM panels from Laminators Inc. into the design.

The Gathering Church’s new sanctuary in St. Louis, Missouri, is a 26,000-square foot building with a contemporary, modern look that is nothing short of eye-catching. The church utilizes 7,000 square feet of Kingspan’s BENCHMARK Designwall 2000 Architectural Wall Panels in bright colors that allowed for a lot of creative freedom and an overall healthier building.

David Prescott is founder of the Prescott Foundation and CEO of The Hangar at 743, home of the Wardbird Factory in Latham, NY. Offering maintenance and restoration services to ensure vintage WWII aircraft continue to fly safely for years to come, his living museum also provides opportunities to educate and inspire. A vintage-looking hydraulic door from Schweiss Doors plays a role in the hangar's function and its value as a unique event space.

As the tallest passive-house building in the world, The House at Cornell Tech has earned international renown for its innovative, high-performance building envelope. Yet, few realize the PPG metal coating that protects and beautifies that intricate assembly also is the result of novel invention.

Some projects call for just the right product and just the right installer. For the re-roofing of The Inn at The Colonnade in Baltimore, Drexel Metals and Tecta America East teamed up for a safe, successful, attractive and watertight installation.

What was once a concrete warehouse in East Watertown, MA is now The Linx, a contemporary commercial office complex. The design firm behind the $60 million adaptive reuse architectural marvel used a mix of materials that included aluminum composite materials from Arconic and 3A Composites, and perforated metal panels from Morin, a Kingspan Group Company.

Adaptive reuse serves as a way to ensure the integrity of an otherwise unused or even condemned structure. The recently completed residential building, The Lucas, in Boston, MA, transformed a former 19th century German Trinity Catholic Church into 33 contemporary livable spaces. The project features metal cladding fabricated by CEI Materials.

The Lydian is the newest addition to Washington, DC’s Mount Vernon Triangle District. Part of a two-building development that includes the Lyric, it has sought-after amenities and features. As a nod to its modernity and style, the 14-story structure is accentuated with a metal fin clad with ALPOLIC® aluminum composite panels and finished with a prismatic paint formulated from LUMIFLON® FEVE-based resins by AGC Inc.

The Mastlight at Union Point, a LEED Silver Certified apartment building, contributed to the transformative redevelopment of the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station, in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. ATAS International's Versa-Lok metal panels in two colors, Titanium and Classic Bronze, manufactured in .040 aluminum, were selected for use on the project.

Armed with an expansive color palette at a competitive price point, Citadel Architectural Products was selected to supply the wall panels for a high-end apartment complex outside our nation’s capital.

As the first new residential project in Burlington, Vermont’s Downtown District in over 15 years, The Nest now serves as an iconic landmark not only for its strikingly modern design, but also for its green building practices throughout the construction process. Central to the project's success both aesthetically and from a green building perspective was the integration of insulated metal panels from Kingspan Insulated Panels for its design.

Terra Verde Discovery School in Norman, Oklahoma, has been steadily growing since it was founded in 2010. To accommodate the expanding needs of the school, “The Nest” event center – featuring metal building products from Star Building Systems – has been designed to allow for small group instruction.

It’s Clemson. It’s Tigers. It’s Metal. At Clemson University, Clemson, SC, the west end zone of Clemson Memorial Stadium has a statement piece that is clad in Dri-Design panels. Known as the Oculus of the WestZone Complex, the iconic structure serves as the center of the Clemson Athletic District.

The best designs have a specific direction right from the start. The Pablo Center at the Confluence in Eau Claire, WI, was constructed to fit into its site where the Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers meet, using traditional and practical façade features, including insulated metal panels from Metl-Span.

The Park at OWA in Foley, Ala., combines an amusement park with two themed shopping and entertainment districts. Drawing on classic Southern coastal architectural themes, designers opted for PAC-CLAD metal roofing panels from Petersen throughout the new complex.

Completion of The Parkside at Craig Ranch apartments and townhomes marks the third phase of the Craig Ranch development, a nationally acclaimed master-planned community in McKinney, Texas. Highlighting The Parkside is an interesting palette of material based around more than 11,000 sq. ft. of Petersen standing seam wall panels finished in the new PAC-CLAD Weathered Steel finish made from a 70% PVDF Kynar formula manufactured by Sherwin-Williams Coil Coatings.

Interest in college hoops is at an all-time high. At the University of Mississippi, a new $96.5 million multi-purpose facility - dubbed The Pavilion at Ole Miss - is home to the men’s and women’s basketball programs and host to myriad other events, including graduation ceremonies and concerts. The new arena is topped with a curved metal roof, finished with an architectural paint coating by Valspar.

In Mankato, MN, one business is going to the dogs, literally. The Paw is an innovative pet care facility that offers a whole host of services. In addition to being a pet daycare, it offers medical care, rehabilitation, grooming, exercise programs and organizes and hosts social events. Helping the business operate safely and efficiently is a one-of-a-kind liftable divider door from Schweiss Doors.

Located in the SoFA (South of First Area) arts district near downtown San Jose, CA, The Pierce has all the amenities today’s city-loving apartment hunters are looking for. And thanks to the colorful array of Laminators Incorporated aluminum composite panels featured on its exterior, it has the looks to match.