Featured Projects

The Heart of the City Health Center serves as the new home for the Ferguson Adult Health Center and Grand Rapid Pediatrics. A consolidation of three separate healthcare providers, this joint venture will provide primary healthcare services to an additional 8,000 low-income individuals in the area annually. CENTRIA products are prominent elements of the facility’s design.

In Ontario, Canada, near downtown Toronto, a contemporary home pours out its unique beauty. But it’s more than large windows, tall ceilings and gorgeous wood floors that lend to the home’s beauty. The connected outdoor living spaces are as equally impressive and are enhanced through the use of woven metal mesh from W.S. Tyler’s Architecture and Design Division.

It’s out with the old and in with the new for Furniture Row Companies. The parent company of Denver Sofa Mart, Oak Express, Denver Mattress, and Bedroom Expressions is getting rid of the weathered wooden planks used around the entrances at many of its stores and replacing them with sleek, modern metal composite panels. The supplier of the aluminum composite panels used in multiple locations so far is Laminators Inc. of Hatfield, PA.

The new sanctuary at the Iglesia Bautista Bethel in Hialeah, FL, will safely weather the severe tropical storms prevalent in South Florida, with the assistance of a building envelope protected by Reynobond® with KEVLAR® and Reynobond Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) by Alcoa Architectural Products. It was designed by Jerry Clawson Architects of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL, in collaboration with architect/interior designer Ignacio Gonzalez of Miami, FL.

Metal Building Company (MBC), an authorized American Buildings Company (ABC) Builder, built a residence for the Mossman-Nguyen family, diverging from their conventional metal building structures. In five months, MBC and the general contractor, KS Design Build, combined the traditional pre-engineered design with custom residential features.

The interior design for a new Steak ‘n Shake restaurant in Oklahoma City, OK relies heavily on prominent radiuses and dramatically curved interior elements. The curves were created with products from Flex-Ability Concepts.

When the new James M. Bennett High School was constructed in Salisbury, Maryland, it was designed to meet the current needs of a growing student population. At the same time, the selection of standing seam metal roofing from The Garland Company Inc. reflects the school district’s focus on sustainability that will carry on into the future.

Lewisville School District’s oldest - but newly renovated - school now features Banker Wire stainless steel wire mesh. The company provided sleek and durable infill panels for Lewisville High School’s stairways and hallway balconies.

While sustainability ranks high on the list of qualities architects seek, durability is equally important. It’s great when building materials are green, but it doesn’t matter if they aren't also able to withstand wear and tear. The fabricators at Byrne Metals knew that wouldn’t be a problem at San Jacinto College, where ALPOLIC aluminum composite panels had been chosen for the school’s new allied health and natural sciences building.

The Frank H. Mazza Pavilion is a senior living community in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania that includes 30 apartments, a private outdoor courtyard and communal space in the main lobby area. This facility was designed to improve the quality of life for its senior citizen and disabled residents. The building’s exterior, highlighted by products from CENTRIA, was designed to blend with its surrounding neighborhood.

A 19,000 sq. ft. addition to the Science Building at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, MI provides much needed space for the school’s science department. The expansion includes four new laboratories and two new classrooms. Incorporated into the addition’s exterior design is 13,000 sq. ft. of DRI-DESIGN rainscreen wall panels, fabricated from 1mm-thick VMZINC® Anthra Zinc® and Quartz Zinc®.

Prevot Design Services, APAC, with offices in Shreveport, LA and Houston, TX, utilized McElroy Metal Mega-Rib metal wall panels in its design of the office/training center for BHP/Petrohawk in Shreveport.

Like many community ice arenas across the country, the New Hope Ice Arena in New Hope, Minnesota, needed some major renovations. The facility, built in the 1970s during a nationwide boom in the construction of community ice arenas, still had its original ice rink. As part of the renovations, the facility is now covered with a new standing seam roof system from The Garland Company Inc.

That it sits dockside is one of the things that makes Manhattan’s newest firehouse unusual. But what makes the 8,500 sq. ft. exceptional is its design. The iconic-looking structure is clad with 15,000 sq. ft. of RHEINZINK titanium zinc, manufactured by RHEINZINK America Inc.

Buncombe County Schools in Asheville, NC sought to relieve overcrowding in eight existing schools with the simultaneous construction of two new intermediate (grades 5-6) schools. The twin 107,000 sq. ft. facilities are identical in design and offer students a unique sense of discovery. Eblen Intermediate School utilizes a colorful variety of PAC-CLAD profiles from Petersen.

Three sisters and a veteran local chef have combined to create one of the most ambitious restaurant projects that Oklahoma has seen in years. Located in Norman, OK and known as Local, the 10,000 sq. ft. restaurant offers a farm-to-fork concept with a unique emphasis on family dining. The facility features curves created by products from Flex-Ability Concepts.

Situated on the shores of the Oklahoma River, the Devon Boathouse and Chesapeake Finish Line Tower – featuring architectural metal products from CENTRIA - provide world-class river sport facilities to the residents of Oklahoma City and the surrounding region. Over the past decade, the river has become a first-rate destination for competitive river sports, attracting Olympic hopefuls and river sport enthusiasts with its training facilities, race course and pristine waters.

Health Services Inc.’s new River Region Health Center in Montgomery, AL, presents two distinctly different faces to the public with a little help from Reynobond® Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) by Alcoa Architectural Products.

In April 2012, Igloo Erectors finished their work as fabricators and installers of the ALPOLIC aluminum composite material (ACM) panel system on the new Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada. The new state-of-the-art facility replaces a 47-year-old structure approximately one-third the size. The ACM to which the new health care facility owes its good looks was manufactured by Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America of Chesapeake, VA, and supplied by VICWEST.

A metalcasting plant in Central Ohio was the site of a different kind of roof retrofit in late 2012 when TopHat Framing Systems’ new Quik-Clip system was employed to facilitate the installation of a new Metal Sales metal roof over an old corrugated transite deck.