Featured Projects

AEP Span’s Prestige Series® architectural metal panel is featured on the Residence Inn Marriott project, the first hotel in Portland’s famous Pearl District. Located in a revitalized area of the inner city that has earned a worldwide reputation for urban renaissance, the 223-room hotel is LEED Silver Certified. The metal panels not only contributed to the recycled content points, but from a design standpoint offering a broad color choice was essential.

While construction setbacks delayed the opening of the Tuttle Avenue School in Eastport, NY, the wait was well worth it for 450 students, many of whom had been attending classes in portable buildings behind another nearby school. The $28 million, 60,000 sq. ft. facility has achieved LEED gold certification, thanks in part to the incorporation of an Englert Series 2500 metal roof in its design.

Designed by Eric Owen Moss Architects, the 16,663 sq. ft. Pterodactyl office building in Culver City, CA is as unique as they come. Perched atop a four-story parking garage, the project 17 years in the making is comprised of a series of zinc-skinned boxes arrayed in a seemingly random pattern. The cladding material for the boxes—nine in all—was RHEINZINK titanium zinc by RHEINZINK America Inc.

Children's Hospital Colorado is regarded as one of the leading pediatric facilities in the nation. When plans began for the hospital's new South Campus in Highlands Ranch, there was a desire that the new facility share some of the visual characteristics of the hub in Aurora. Stainless steel panels fabricated by MetalTech-USA Inc. of Peachtree City, GA, helped make that desired connection.

For over forty-five years Nobility Homes Inc. of Ocala, Florida has been building quality manufactured homes for the Florida market and beyond. With over 50,000 homes built to date, this company stands high in the rankings of their industry. Since 2012, Roof Hugger Inc. has been supplying Genesis Construction & Management of Ocala with engineered structural sub-purlins for re-roofing projects at Nobility Homes’ manufacturing locations.

The elegant lines of the new Park Place Lexus dealership building in Plano, Texas, embody the high-performance, luxury styling of the vehicles showcased inside, thanks in part to the Reynobond® aluminum composite materials and products by Kawneer—sister company to Alcoa Architectural Products—that form the building envelope. The $10-million-plus, 170,000 sq. ft. dealership houses new and pre-owned car showrooms and service facilities.

Anything worth doing is worth doing right. The five-story parking garage at 112 East 5th Street in Austin, Texas was treated with custom colors on perforated façade panels from McElroy Metal. The install required a little extra care to ensure the color pattern was right.

There are reasons why California is known for producing some of the world's finest wines. And there are reasons why insulated metal panel systems—like those available from Kingspan Insulated Panels—are go-to products when it comes to wine storage and production facilities.

Choosing a color for your new home can be a difficult decision. Selecting one single pigment to represent you and your home takes time and consideration and when the Esers were faced with this decision in early 2015, they turned to Valspar for help.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation provided more than 13,000 sq. ft. of its TDR-6 deep ribbed metal wall panels for a new apartment tower, known as LPM Apartments, in the Loring Park neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Westin is part of a master plan to create the Uptown Entertainment District at the existing Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex, home to performing arts theaters, signature dining, 220,000 square feet of meeting space and the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. In concert with the city’s vision for the entertainment district, the hotel’s bold design – featuring metal products from CENTRIA - leaves a lasting impression of luxury, sophistication and excitement.

The new Ricky Rocket’s Fuel Center in Hoffman Estates, Ill., generates head-turning looks with its signature “rocket man” perched atop the 8,200 sq. ft. building. The facility includes a high-tech car wash, convenience store, food outlets and, of course, fuel service. Adding to the attention-getting design are bright yellow and red fascia and soffit panels provided by Petersen Aluminum.

Lincoln Park Centre, a 61,000 sq. ft. shopping center on Chicago’s north side, has undergone the kind of major changes in just a few short years that have made it a real-estate investment company’s dream venture. The project features aluminum composite material cladding from 3A Composites USA.

The design goal for the 620 Veterans Boulevard Radius Apartments was to present a luxurious residential community through the use of a variety of products, including metal wall panels from Morin, A Kingspan Group Company.

Hot on the heels of several other notable airline industry projects, Varco Pruden Builder™ Lemartec announced the completion of two pre-engineered hybrid steel airport hangars at the Opa-Locka Executive Airport, a former military training airport gaining popularity as a full-service station for private jets.

An old church dome in Orange, Texas was returned to its former glory and the building it tops given a new lease on life, thanks to new ownership and the products of Peachtree City, GA-based MetalTech-USA. The company fabricated the shingles and roof panels used in the iconic dome's restoration, using RHEINZINK titanium zinc from RHEINZINK America Inc., Woburn, MA.

On the grounds of the Granite Falls Municipal Airport, in his hometown of Granite Falls, MN, entrepreneur Ron Fagen established the Fagen Fighters World War II Museum. The museum boasts an impressive collection of World War II aircraft and artifacts housed inside two hangars, each of which is outfitted with Schweiss Liftstrap Bifold Doors from Fairfax, MN-based Schweiss Doors.

The Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar is impressive by any measure and distinctive for many reasons, including being the largest stainless steel roofing project in the world. Installation of the 3.8 million square feet of roofing material began in 2007 with the specification of InvariMatte, the signature stainless steel product of Contrarian Metal Resources, Allison Park, PA.

The "Building Hope" expansion of the Seattle Children's Hospital was designed with family needs and operational efficiency in mind. One of the objectives of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, the project's architect, was to create a look for the building that was both soothing and inviting. That was achieved in part through the use of custom wall panels on the exterior. They were fabricated from VMZINC®, a product of Umicore Building Products USA.

Kankakee Community College recently completed construction of its North Extension Center, (NEC) north of the main campus in Kankakee, Illinois. The two-story, 18,350 sq. ft. building cost $5.5 million and anchors the college’s new satellite campus in downtown Bradley, Illinois. The building envelope, which was the determining factor for NEC achieving a high LEED rating and certification, was made with Kingspan insulated metal panels.