Featured Projects

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.”

When the project team started planning the Bachelor Enlisted Quarters (BEQ) at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe, Hawaii, they sought a design that would complement existing buildings on the Base while combining aesthetics with construction economies. A Met-Tile aluminum “tile panel” roofing system from McElroy Metal provided a similar look to the existing clay and concrete tile roofs at a significantly lighter weight, while also delivering the many performance benefits associated with metal roofing.

Located in Bloomington, MN, the new home of Motorwerks BMW & Mini is a two-story, state-of-the-art showroom and service center with an attached four-story enclosed lot. It was designed by Phillips Architects & Contractors of Minneapolis to reflect the sophistication of the automobiles on display. To that end, the 200,000 sq. ft. building is clad predominantly with Alcoa Architectural Products' Reynobond aluminum composite metal wall panels. The material use was carried over to the interior spaces as well.

The architectural firms involved in the design and construction of Brookside Elementary School in Indianapolis, IN, both agree that it took some effort to convince the school board to go with a contemporary design for the new 90,000 sq. ft. facility. David Franklin, principal with Domain Architecture, the associate firm on the project, acknowledges “pushing for a contemporary design” and claims the new school is “by far the most interesting of the ten new schools funded by the bond issue.” A highlight of the design is two prominent canopies wrapped with Citadel Panel 20 MCM panels.

Wanting the look of smooth metal wall panels without the potential drawbacks related to caulked joints, Nashville, TN-based Everton Oglesby Architects chose Dri-Design panels for the exterior of the new East Park Community Center in that city. The project required 14,000 sq. ft. of the .050”-thick aluminum panels, finished in White, Patina Green and Orange. The 9,000 sq. ft. of metal wall panels needed to complete the project were installed by JWC Specialties, Nashville.

Like most restaurant chains, Chipotle Mexican Grills have a look. But counter to the norm, that look is not necessarily the same from one location to the next. Within an overall design parameter and using common elements, each restaurant is designed to be unique. And so it goes in Littleton, CO, where the exterior of a newly completed Chipotle location features Laminators Inc.'s Omega-Lite aluminum composite metal wall panels. The restaurant was designed by MJ Cassutt Architects while Sondrup Sheet Metal handled the panel installation.

The beauty of Contrarian Metal Resources’ InvariMatte-finish stainless steel is evident in the design of a curved concourse at the Education and Conference Center of Fletcher Allen Health Center in Burlington, VT. It features approximately 60,000 sq. ft. of the exterior wall panels and standing seam roofing formed from the material. The concourse was constructed as part of the Fletcher Allen Health Center Renaissance Project, under the direction of Tsoi/Kobus & Associates of Cambridge, MA, and Freeman, French, Freeman of Burlington, VT. Kalkreuth Roofing & Sheet Metal of Wheeling, WV, fabricated and installed the panels.

Searching for a perfect material to cover the roof and walls of the new Earl of Derby and Lord Sefton grandstands at historic Aintree racecourse in England, a British design firm put its money on Corus Building Systems' new Kalzip XT aluminum standing seam. The Building Design Partnership (BDP), used the 165'-long stucco-embossed aluminum panels to reach from the base of each structure to its peak, curving around the eaves as they made the transition from wall cladding to roof. The panels were designed using 3D CAD technology to ensure the correct twist as they followed the curvature of the gutters and fascia.

For its design of a new parking structure at the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects wanted to use architectural metal mesh as an exterior cladding material. The challenge to find a product that provided the desired level of screening and the necessary amount of open area was met through the specification of a Facade mesh system from Cambridge Architectural of Cambridge, MD. The selected system features Cambridge's Scale pattern mesh attached in tension with custom Eclipse hardware. The Scale pattern features a 62% open area while providing the security, safety and visibility design team members wanted.

Architect Dave Richards admitted he “went nuts over the RHEINZINK Diamond Tiles” when he first saw them. Richards, president of Dave Richards Architects, Salt Lake City, was in the early stages of designing a new headquarters facility for his client, Chelated Minerals International of Salt Lake City. As luck would have it, the owners of Chelated Minerals happened to travel to Europe while Richards’ design recommendations were still being considered. After seeing numerous RHEINZINK applications in Germany, the owners were convinced. “‘It’s amazing’ they said,” according to Richards. “After that, the design was a done deal.”

Christina Crescent is the name given the project that saw a multi-parcel brownfield site along Wilmington, DE’s waterfront replaced by a 270,000 sq. ft., six-story office building and stand-alone five-story parking garage. The two structures are joined by a park plaza with a sunken garden spanned by a pedestrian bridge. Among the products utilized as part of the bridge's construction was galvanized steel grating from Ohio Gratings Inc. of Canton, OH. The chosen product features a close spacing pattern and below-surface anchor blocks, making it ideal for an office setting.

Counting barn restorations as one of its areas of specialization, Eight Hundred Roof of North Berwick, ME, fabricated and installed the 30,000 sq. ft. of metal roofing that now tops the Grafton Dairy Barn in North Haverhill, NH. Sheffield Metals of Sheffield Village, OH, manufactured the Slate Gray-colored, Kynar 500-coated, 24-gauge steel coils used to produce the roof panels. They were distributed by Admiral Building Products of Lewiston, ME.

The first phase of the Emergency and Critical Care Center at Sharp Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa, CA, features a high-tech appearance, with its gleaming exterior cladding of Alucobond® and Alucobond® Plus materials in Champagne Metallic finish. The five-story addition utilized more than 25,000 sq. ft. of the aluminum composite materials (ACM) manufactured by the Benton, KY, plant of Alcan Composites USA Inc. The materials were distributed, fabricated and installed by Center Glass Co. of La Mesa, CA, which also handled the glass work at the hospital. The Alucobond materials were attached using the System CGD-2000 dry joint system by Center Glass Co.

With its pleasing appearance and superb durability, Contrarian Metal Resources’ InvariMatte-finish stainless steel was deemed the ideal product for the exterior of the new student union at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. As designed by Goody Clancy and Associates of Boston, MA, the 45,000 sq. ft. dining and meeting hall—dubbed The Commons—features both roofing and flat lock wall panels formed from the architectural-grade metal. A&M Roofing and Sheet Metal of Andover, MA, fabricated and installed the 21,000 sq. ft. of roof and wall panels.

Seeing the impressive nature and beauty of his nearly-complete 10,000 square foot hillside home in West Vancouver, British Columbia, an undeterred homeowner decided to recreate the design after the original structure was tragically destroyed by fire. Like the original, the re-build features approximately 2,000 sq. ft. of RHEINZINK 0.7mm/24 gauge Double Lock Standing Seam roof panels and 2,000 sq. ft. of RHEINZINK 0.8mm/22 gauge S-Lock wall panels. Both systems were finished in Preweathered Pro Blue Gray. They were installed by TV Metals, Coquitlam, British Columbia. Michel Coutya of Vancouver designed the home.

Coinciding with the institution’s 30th anniversary, the new home of New York City’s New Museum of Contemporary Art is set to open on December 1, 2007. The building is the first fine arts museum ever to be constructed from the ground up in Manhattan. And if that alone were not enough to make it special, its exterior cladding combines extruded aluminum wall panels with an expanded metal mesh covering. The system used was developed exclusively for the project, with M.G. McGrath of Maplewood, MN, assisting in the design and handling the installation.

More than 36,000 sq. ft. of Metl-Span CF Architectural wall panels were installed in a horizontal configuration to provide a modern look for Takao America Corporation’s new manufacturing facility in Canton, MI. Takao is a major provider of die manufacturing, pressing and welding for the automotive industry. The panels were finished in two custom colors, Ascot White and Silversmith, and were highlighted with contrasting painted accent striping running the length of the building. The building was designed by GHAFARI Associates of Dearborn, MI, with SDI Exterior Systems of Farmington Hills, MI, handling the insulated metal wall panel installation.

With all due respect, Akron, Ohio is about the last place you’d expect to find a provocative piece of modern architecture. Yet the Akron Art Museum’s John S. and James L. Knight addition is just that. The 63,000 sq. ft. addition was designed by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU of Austria and represents the celebrated firm’s first public project in the United States. The addition represented a first for the museum too. After having operated out of existing buildings since its inception in 1922, the addition is the museum’s first purpose-built space. One of the addition's eye-catching features is its 327'-long cantilevered canopy. Framed with steel, it is covered with an egg crate aluminum screening produced by Ohio Gratings Inc.

Cambridge Architectural, Cambridge, MD, employed its unique design-build approach to outfit the exterior of a newly constructed Massachusetts parking garage in glistening woven metal fabric. The structure is at Reservoir Woods, a 120-acre, $16 million office complex in Waltham, MA. Spagnolo Gisness & Associates, Inc. of Boston, MA, designed the garage, which uses a combination of Cambridge's Scale and Mid-balance products. They were attached using the company's Eclipse tension attachment hardware.

The first-ever Cambria Suites hotel has opened in Boise, ID. What’s noteworthy about this project from a metal construction standpoint is that it utilizes approximately 12,000 sq. ft. of Citadel Architectural Products’ Envelope 2000 metal composite material panels on its exterior. Cambria Suites is a brand of Choice Hotels International, which franchises more than 5,300 hotels throughout the United States. The look for the new chain was developed by Minds Eye Architecture of Charlotte, NC, and is being repeated at approximately 50 other locations throughout the country.