Featured Projects

Philadelphia artist Nancy Blum created the art portion of the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit West Bank Station, titled “Immigration/Migration”, using stainless fabrics from GKD. The station is located in Minneapolis, MN.

For most businesses, success spurs growth. The Maui Brewing Company is no exception. To meet the surging demand for its locally brewed craft beers, the award-winning company recently expanded into a newly constructed 42,000 square foot facility in Kihei, HI. Utilized for the building's construction were insulated metal panel systems from Kingspan Insulated Panels.

The Village at Santa Monica is the first major residential development to be built on Santa Monica’s prime Ocean Avenue in the last 20 years. The project combines 158 luxury condos and 160 apartments with shops and restaurants. Tall by Santa Monica standards, the mixed-use development rises to 10 stories and includes 20,000 square feet of retail space plus walkable plazas and gardens. Accenting its exterior is RHEINZINK titanium zinc.

Direct Metals, an international steel service center with locations in Kennesaw, GA and Waukegan, IL, provided custom aluminum perforated metal in the construction of the Tunica Riverpark & Museum in Tunica, Mississippi.

Silicon Valley may have to watch out for Ames, Iowa. Workiva, a cloud-based software company, just opened a sprawling two-phase headquarters near the Iowa State University campus. Dri-Design Wall Panels were used to bring high-tech class to the two buildings that span 120,000 square feet in the ISU Research Park.

The City of Indianola’s pool house was a place for the community’s children to enjoy the summer months, but as the facility deteriorated over time, the pool was forced to close. Ultimately, it was decided to refurbish the existing building, with the help of metal panels from MBCI.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation supplied its 7/8” Corrugated Wall Panels for use on the healthy homes of Grow Community - Phase 1, a new urban neighborhood on Bainbridge Island outside Seattle, Washington.

The owner of the The Brooks hotel wanted a unique structure, an inviting facility with a high-end look that stood out from the many other ordinary hotel chain buildings along the roadway. The ProCore panel from Citadel Architectural Products offered a clean contemporary look while assisting the owner with meeting his budget.

Located on the historic East Central College campus, the newly renovated Buescher Hall - featuring metal products from CENTRIA - previously served as the institution’s library. Established in 1968, East Central College is a two-year institution that serves a wide variety of students in the Union, Mo. area.

Far from the soaring glass towers of the waterfront, Long Island City is experiencing a surge in residential development. One such development, 46-09 11th Street Apartments, is drawing the area’s population farther inland. Standing 6 stories, this 65,000 sq. ft. development features a 200 ft., block-long façade bisected by a perforated aluminum screen wall, engineered and fabricated by MetalTech-USA.

The new 100,000 sq. ft. Gateway Medical Office Building in Orlando is anchored by Florida Hospital and the University of Central Florida’s Pegasus Health physician practice and clinic. The facility is located in the Lake Nona master-planned community and complements an array of medical services offered in the area known locally as Medical City. Petersen Aluminum panels complement the facility’s design.

In the annals of Irish history, the tale of the Nine Fine Irishmen is the stuff of legend. It's fitting then that a Las Vegas pub bearing the same name should be something special too. The bar enjoys a destination reputation for its authentic food, spirits and entertainment, as well as for its incredible décor. Not to be overlooked is the establishment's ornately designed patio bar. It functions with the help of attractively styled hydraulic doors from Schweiss Doors of Fairfax, MN.

Seeking a replacement system for the home's aging roof, the owner of a 1926 lakeside cottage in Erie, PA turned to VMZINC, the international brand name of rolled zinc products from Umicore Building Products USA of Raleigh, NC.

Aluminum composite materials are considered first and foremost as an exterior building product, but they've been shown to work just as well in interior applications. Laminators Inc. of Hatfield, PA offers proof in a pair of recently completed outlet mall storefronts for Columbia Sportswear, one in Las Vegas, NV and the other in Milpitas, CA.

Localized repairs had worked to a point, but the owners of a 100+ unit apartment building in London, Ontario, Canada were looking for a permanent solution to the deterioration they were seeing in their structure's exterior. And with the KS Granitstone insulated wall panel system from Kingspan, that's exactly what they got.

An opportunity presented itself to streamline Milwaukee's Department of Transportation by putting many divisions under one roof. In doing so, a renovation and expansion of the existing Central Shop building, previously used by the Fleet Management and Highway Divisions, was necessary. The Dri-Design Tapered Series Wall Panel System was used on the expanded area of the new headquarters to create a sense of movement, symbolizing the transportation department's function.

Back in the day, most families had a globe in their home. That's not the case today, but even if it were, it's a good bet none would be as big or as accurate as the one now sitting in front of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. That globe is 70' in diameter and skinned with stainless steel panels fabricated by Overly Mfg.Co.

Tinker Federal Credit Union recently opened a new branch in Oklahoma City. Architectural firm Trinity Group Architects, Oklahoma City, took a prototype and further developed it to make a standard banking branch something to notice - with the help of curved framing products from Flex-Ability Concepts.

The checklist for what makes a project successful will almost always include staying at or under budget. The new packaging facility and adjacent office project for Forest Pharmaceuticals in Cincinnati was able to stay on budget with some help from Citadel Architectural Products.

PPG Industries, with global headquarters in Pittsburgh, announced that its Sungate® passive low-emissivity (low-e) glass, Starphire Ultra-Clear™ glass, Coraflon® powder coatings and PPG Paints™ products were used on The Tower at PNC Plaza, which opened in October 2015 in Pittsburgh. The project was designed to be the world’s greenest office building.