Featured Projects

In Iowa, the new Cedar Rapids Public Library is a vibrant, multipurpose destination with spaces for the community to mix and collaborate. Commissioned to replace the previous library lost in flooding that devastated the city in 2008, the unique architecture makes a statement that heightens the building’s presence while being easily identifiable as a library. Helping to distingush the building is Reynobond ACM cladding from Arconic Architectural Products.

“Freedom within limits” is one of the characteristics of a Montessori education, and the design of Fayetteville Montessori Elementary School in northwest Arkansas is a perfect example. Situated near a creek, the triangular structure cuts a modern and exciting figure that few would guess is the result of extreme constraints. Noteworthy about the project from a metal construction standpoint is the use of corrugated metal panels in its design. They feature a Fluropon paint finish from Valspar.

Hmong College Prep Academy’s (HCPA) mission is to provide the best integrated, most challenging, and well-rounded educational experience to students in grades K-12. Located in St. Paul, Minnesota, HCPA is a charter school that retrofitted a former health club into an educational facility. Metal products from CENTRIA played a key role in the exterior design of the 78,300 sq. ft. academy.

Informally dubbed “The Building in the Trees,” the new Biological Sciences Building at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Ga., is located on a major campus pedestrian way that brings students through a wooded area to reach the 158,000 sq. ft. structure. The LEED Gold building, featuring metal products from Petersen Aluminum, is the first in a new precinct of the campus largely devoted to the study of coastal plains biology and ecology.

There are a variety of considerations for specifying architectural building products on any project, everything from aesthetics and structural integrity to cost and environmental friendliness. For the construction of the Stack House Apartments in Seattle, metal composite material (MCM) from Citadel Architectural Products Inc. helped meet these goals and was able to play a role in the project receiving LEED Platinum certification.

Successful firms tend to have high expectations when it comes to the companies they do business with. When the decision was made to expand its tank fabrication operations in New Prague, MN, Chart Industries involved a pair of Minnesota firms who are demonstrated leaders within their respective fields: Greystone Construction Company of Shakopee, and Schweiss Doors Inc. of Fairfax.

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.