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Posted: Aug 31, 2017

Chemeketa Community College Building 20

Building 20 at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, OR, has created a haven for its technical education program. The structure, designed to LEED Gold guidelines, has an exterior that reflects the building’s technologically driven purpose with a high-tech feel created using Dri-Design Wall Panels.

Posted: Aug 28, 2017

Valravn Roller Coaster Station

With a name based on a supernatural raven from Danish folklore, Cedar Point's Valravn in Sandusky, Ohio is the tallest (223 feet), fastest (75 mph) and longest (3,415 feet) dive roller coaster in the world. The Valravn Roller Coaster Station design incorporated several aluminum panel profiles in three colors from ATAS International.

Posted: Aug 24, 2017

Milton & Catherine Hershey Conservatory

Hershey’s chocolate is one of America's most iconic products. And the legacy of Milton Hershey is alive and thriving in Hershey, PA, the town that bears his name. Tourists flock to Hershey for many reasons, including to visit the historic Hershey Gardens. A new conservatory at the Gardens is built to the same quality as those that preceded it. It is topped with a metal roof whose longevity and good looks are assured thanks to a premium Valspar paint finish.

Posted: Aug 23, 2017

Radisson RED

Art, music and fashion serve as inspirations for the new Radisson RED lifestyle select brand developed by the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, which opened its first U.S. location in Minneapolis in November 2016 as the brand’s first new build and prototype design. Aluminum composite material panels from 3A Composites USA are featured.

Posted: Aug 21, 2017

Streetscape Developments Offices

Streetscape Developments Inc. of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada chose insulated metal panels from Metl-Span to achieve its goal of constructing a unique new office building that would not only appropriately reflect the company’s building philosophy, but draw other businesses to want to lease its additional storefront spaces.

Posted: Aug 17, 2017

Logan High School

There’s more than one way to deliver roof panels. Morin, A Kingspan Group Company, has recently introduced an onsite roll forming process that runs panels to the eaves, where they are gathered and stacked for installation. A perfect example of the process can be seen at Logan High School in Russellville, KY.

Posted: Aug 14, 2017

Cobalt Stables

A new four-building project, utilizing metal systems from Star Building Systems, consists of one large clear span metal building with three smaller buildings which form the shape of a cross. Owned by Morgan Horse LLC, the Cobalt Stables buildings in Kansas City, KS, feature metal components, composite roofing and wood in a functional and seamlessly integrated living space for humans and horses.

Posted: Aug 10, 2017

71 France Apartment Complex (Housing A, B & C)

The 71 France Apartment Complex, sporting attractive metal wall cladding from CENTRIA, offers its residents both luxurious and comfortable living quarters with its convenient location just minutes from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Posted: Aug 07, 2017

Dearing Elementary School

The 20th and newest elementary school in the Pflugerville Independent School District opened to rave reviews from students, teachers and parents alike. Dearing Elementary School in Texas, which creates more energy than the building consumes, was lauded for its net-zero design. The school features metal rainscreen panels from Petersen.

Posted: Aug 03, 2017

Airglades Airport Hangar

Imagine walking out to your hangar to see its 74-foot door lying on the ground in a twisted heap. Tom Vaughan, a manager at two Florida municipal airports, recently experienced this headache while on the job at the Airglades Airport in Clewiston. After discovering the old door's inferior hinges were the culprit, his next call was to Schweiss Doors.

Posted: Aug 02, 2017

Florida Hospital Center Ice

Hockey and ice-skating enthusiasts in Florida can skate in style when the right building materials are selected. Insulated metal panels from Kingspan added aesthetic appeal and insulation value for a stable interior temperature at the five-rink Florida Hospital Center Ice in Wesley Chapel, FL.

Posted: Jul 31, 2017

Tisch Art Barn

Whether it’s an “art barn” as he likes to call it or a “mini-museum” as others refer to it, the new 4,500 sq. ft. art and entertainment structure on the residential estate of billionaire Steve Tisch in Beverly Hills is a stunner. Part of the building's design success is owed to its exterior being wrapped entirely with titanium zinc from RHEINZINK America Inc.

Posted: Jul 27, 2017

Provo Power

J & M Steel Solutions, a Nucor Building Systems Authorized Builder, earned the 2017 Building of the Year honor from the Metal Building Contractors & Erectors Association for their work on the Provo Power project in Sandy, Utah. The project is comprised of a 17,500 sq. ft. pre-engineered Nucor building used as a maintenance facility attached to a structural steel building serving as administrative offices.

Posted: Jul 26, 2017

Indigo

There are numerous reasons why the stunning Indigo apartment complex won Silicon Valley’s 2016 Market-Rate Residential Project award, including its remarkable beauty, immense size, attractive location and array of high-end amenities. Covering a majority of the complex's exterior are Omega-Lite ACM panels from Laminators Inc. of Hatfield, PA.

Posted: Jul 24, 2017

Genesee Water Treatment Facility

The new Genesee Water Treatment Facility in Golden, CO is going to be hit with an average of 84 inches of snow annually. To keep employees and the general public safe from falling snow, a snow retention system from S-5! was installed on the building's metal roof.

Posted: Jul 20, 2017

Blount Community Church

The growing Blount Community Church of Maryville, TN was in need of a new facility, including areas for worship, daycare and classrooms. The affordable solution was to erect metal building framing from A & S Building Systems, topped with standing seam roofing from MBCI and clad with insulated metal panels from Metl-Span.

Posted: Jul 17, 2017

Hilton Garden Inn Chicago North Loop

Situated along the Chicago River and just minutes from the upscale retail, restaurants and museums of Michigan Avenue's Magnificent Mile, the new Hilton Garden Inn Chicago/North Loop offers 191 rooms and nearly 100,000 square feet of space to visitors of Chicago's booming North Loop neighborhood. The hotel features insulated metal panels in multiple hues from CENTRIA.

Posted: Jul 13, 2017

Varina Area Library

Choosing building materials reminiscent of the agricultural structures common to the region, the design of the Varina Area Library in Henrico, VA, blended wood and stone, as well as metal roofing and wall panels from Morin, A Kingspan Group Company.

Posted: Jul 12, 2017

A1 Al's Pheasant Ranch

A hunting lodge as grand as A1 Al's Pheasant Ranch requires a roof that is equally as stunning. A standing seam roof using steel from Coated Metals Group completes the rugged aesthetics of this resort located in Emery, South Dakota.

Posted: Jul 10, 2017

Knox College Academic Art Building

The Knox College Academic Art Building features 29,950 sq. ft. of space situated on two floors for the studio and art history departments. Situated at the northern edge of the campus and configured around a new plaza, the building develops a new connection between central campus and downtown Galesburg, IL. Metal systems from Star Building Systems figured prominently in the facility's construction.

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