Featured Projects

The extensive restoration and expansion of the landmark 28th Street YMCA in Los Angeles, CA brings the valuable neighborhood organization back to its roots as an empowering community center with safe, affordable housing. The new design by Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Los Angeles, adds a slim steel-and-wood-framed building. Adorning it is a custom-designed perforated aluminum screen by CR Laurence and U.S. Aluminum.

It’s one thing to talk about the benefits of your metal roofing products and how those products can serve as a host for photovoltaic panels. It’s quite another thing to re-roof your manufacturing facility with your panels and add photovoltaic panels. But that's precisely what McElroy Metal did at its Peachtree City plant.

Contractor and homeowner Alan Kanner wanted his house to respect its hilly, wooded surroundings in Takoma Park, Maryland while also being creative, cool and fun. Playing a prominent role in the home’s design are metal wall panels from ATAS International.

The Porsche of Tacoma auto dealership was built with the finest workmanship and technology, like a Porsche itself, by Accrete Construction LLC, an American Buildings Company (ABC) Authorized Builder.

Kalzip’s FC rainscreen and aluminum standing seam systems were specified by HLM Architects for Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service’s rebuilt and eye-catching Rathfriland Fire Station in Co Down, Ireland. Peter O’Hare Ltd was the main contractor for the imaginatively-designed building and both Kalzip systems were installed by approved Teamkal contractor, LA Ltd.

The new Wolfe Center For The Arts at Bowling Green State University provides a space on campus where the arts can flourish and robust interdisciplinary collaborations can take root. Rising dramatically from a flat site, the building’s metal panels – supplied by CENTRIA - and tilted geometry have introduced a completely new aesthetic to an otherwise traditional group of campus buildings.

In October 2013, construction was completed on the Carizma Motors used car dealership in Lubbock, Texas. The walls of the new facility feature metal cladding from MBCI.

In many of Europe's major cities, it's quite common to find zinc roofs that have been in service for more than 100 years. Famed German architect Karl-Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) used zinc extensively for roofing and building ornamentation on several historical buildings and palaces that still stand today.

Rigid Frame metal building systems by Varco Pruden Buildings are prominently featured as part of the Nacarato Volvo facility in La Vergne, TN. The 80,270 sq. ft. truck sales and service center is comprised of two buildings. The main building - housing sales, parts and service operations - measures 56,750 sq. ft., while a 23,520 sq. ft. body repair and paint shop building is also situated on 12 acres of paved area.

The Village Links, Glen Ellyn, IL, is a premier municipal golf course. The course has hosted 42 USGA and PGA Tour qualifying events. A $5.3 million renovation of the highly-ranked course and clubhouse facility is the most extensive the club has ever undertaken. The project included a 7,500 sq. ft. addition and the renovation of the existing 8,000 sq. ft. building, featuring metal roofing and soffits from Petersen Aluminum.

Starbucks stores and facilities are widely known and highly regarded for their sustainable and sophisticated designs. The newest Starbucks flagship store at Oak and Rush in Chicago, IL, which features wire mesh from Banker Wire, is no exception.

A Metal Sales™ roof system was chosen to top an ambitious Net-Zero building. Rhonda and Nigel Farrar chose to work with Metal Sales on their new 3,000-square-foot home in Escondido, CA. The home, commonly referred to as the Farrar Green Home, overlooks beautiful Lake Hodges and was designed to be a model for green design by utilizing the latest commercially available green building products.

Insulated metal panels from Metl-Span proved to be a perfect component for the renovation and conversion of a 1940s masonry warehouse to an energy-efficient office facility.

The engaging graphics at the street level of the new parking garage at the Franciscan Medical Building at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, WA provide a warm welcome to arriving patients and visitors. The garage is linked to the new five-story medical office building by a skybridge. The larger-than-life people images and graphics on the exterior of the 819-stall garage were created using Dri-Design’s Perforated Imaging technology.

B & D Dairy Farms in Pound, Wisconsin has a new rotary milking parlor to add to their extensive dairy farm, thanks to Keller Inc., an American Buildings Company (ABC) Authorized Builder. The new parlor enhances the speed of the milking process for the large herd of cattle, as well as gives the employees extended office space and a new mechanical room.

St. Lucie County, Florida was in dire need for a shelter to accommodate the area’s increasing stray animal population, so they turned to Richard K. Davis Construction Corporation and the cost efficiency of pre-engineered metal. The resulting 13,000-square foot shelter showcases a Ceco Building Systems rigid frame metal framing system as well as metal wall and roof panels.

Over 1,800 sq. meters of Kalzip aluminum standing seam panels and a similar quantity of Kalzip liner and decking sheets have been installed on Mansfield, UK’s impressive new bus station and link-bridge. The Kalzip roofing sheets together with Kalzip planking for the soffits and an array of bespoke Kalzip aluminum fabrications were all installed by Teamkal contractor, Met-Clad Contracts Ltd.

Under the premise that public housing projects deserve the same level of architectural attention as any other, the new Richardson Apartments in San Francisco is as visually interesting as they come. Featured on its most visible elevation are titanium zinc panels from RHEINZINK American in two of the company’s most popular finishes.

Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, The Rapid (Interurban Transit Partnership) is a growing transportation authority that serves the Grand Rapids metropolis and surrounding regions. The new Wealthy Street Transit Operations Center, which is LEED® Silver certified, is the city’s latest project in its sustainable transportation system initiative. CENTRIA architectural metal products are featured on the facility.

On gameday, when the University of Southern California Trojan men’s and women’s basketball teams battle it out at the Galen Center, upwards of 10,000 fans pack the arena to cheer them on. In between games at this recently opened multi-use facility, located on the campus' west side, volleyball, concerts and many other major events are held. They too draw large crowds.