Featured Projects

The new Clark Middle School is located on an urban-oriented 23.75 acre site in the Mt. View section of Anchorage, Alaska. The area had experienced hard times in recent years, but is now an integral part of the city's revitalization program, situated in an up-and-coming arts and cultural district. Playing a key role in the design of the new school were architectural metal products from CENTRIA.

Santiago Canyon College is one of the newest community colleges in California. Located in Orange, CA, the college serves approximately 10,000 students in a state-of-the-art learning environment. The college’s new 60,000 sq. ft. science center combines traditional lecture spaces, faculty offices and high-tech laboratories for chemistry, biology, physics and other sciences. The two-structure building is clad with two types of metal panel systems from Citadel Architectural Products.

As part of The State University of New York, Stony Brook University on Long Island’s north shore, is part of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive state university system. When new residence halls recently were required to meet the needs of Stony Brook’s fast-growing student population, both budget and time constraints played important roles in the buildings’ architectural design. Alucobond® Plus Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) by 3A Composites USA was ordered in bold colors and installed as exterior cladding on an interconnected series of three buildings.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation, a premier nationwide provider of metal panels for the building and construction industry, brings a fresh new look to the Town and Country Foods complex in Bozeman, MT. The facility, which also houses corporate offices, a lounge, restaurant/bar area, and retail space for Bling Wireless, a communication and satellite equipment store, is outfitted with 9,377 square feet of Metal Sales T6-A wall panels in a bright Antique Patina color.

Anthropologie is a specialty retailer that offers a distinct assortment of women’s apparel, accessories, home furnishings and decorative accessories and is owned by parent company Urban Outfitters, Inc. Like its sister locations, the new store in New Orleans capitalizes on an aesthetic that is modern and eclectic with hints of traditional elements. Its sturdy wooden and steel staircase, with a sweeping steel cabling suspension system, serves as a fittingly eye-catching centerpiece. Ronstan Tensile Architecture supplied a complete cable system to uphold this unique suspended staircase.

MetroMix Atlanta is a restaurant, nightlife and events guide with its finger on the pulse of what’s hot, hip and trendy in Atlanta, GA. It recently recognized the Flip Burger Boutique for serving up the city’s best burger. The restaurant is trendy looking too. It is clad with ALPOLIC ACM panels featuring an unusual graphics treatment. The panels were fabricated by Altech Panel Systems.

Bonny Slope Elementary School, located in Portland, Oregon, began a renovation project in 2008 that would improve the learning environment, as well as the building’s energy efficiency. Because of the steep sloping of the site, a two-story classroom wing was designed to take advantage of the natural light that permeates through the building, along with L-shaped classrooms that create a flexible learning environment. CENTRIA products played a significant role in the project.

The new Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier, a $28 million cruise ship terminal at the Port of San Diego, is the second major building to feature color-shifting Duranar® VARI-Cool® coatings by PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG). Saul Suarez, an architect with Bermello Ajamil & Partners, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., specified Duranar VARI-Cool coatings in blue-green Polar Flare and Jamaican Reef colors for the two-story, 52,000 sq. ft. terminal.

Students do not typically look forward to returning to school after Christmas break, but 6th-8th graders in Columbus, Mississippi, were anxious to hit the books in early 2011; they were excited to move into their newly-constructed, state-of-the-art school. Perhaps what they weren't expecting, however, was the level of technology and the fun, casual atmosphere they would find when they stepped into the 150,515 -square foot facility that involved custom-designed metal construction from a hometown company, Ceco Building Systems.

Brooklyn is enjoying a renaissance of rediscovery thanks to artists, retailers, ambitious contractors and creative designers like Andre Kikoski Architect. The Manhattan-based firm just completed the renovation and conversion of two empty warehouse buildings at 22-28 Wyckoff Ave., transforming those once-abandoned structures into The Wyckoff Exchange, the Bushwick neighborhood’s newest mixed-use development. Helping secure the development's new businesses are horizontally opening bifold doors by Minnesota-based Schweiss Doors.

The opening of the Chalmette High School's new Cultural Arts Center is another Katrina comeback story for the residents of St. Bernard Parish in New Orleans, LA. Designed for both public and school use, the center celebrated its grand opening on March 18, 2011. Featured prominently on the building's exterior are overlapping metal wall shingles. Overly Manufacturing fabricated them from Contrarian Metal Resources' InvariMatte® stainless steel.

The Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values is one of the newest structures at the University of Tampa. Early in the design process, stainless steel was considered for the 15,000 sq. ft. building’s roof as a reference to the stainless steel minarets that grace the University’s historic Plant Hall. But RHEINZINK zinc was ultimately used instead because of its visual softness and ability to diffuse light as required by the design. In addition to being used for the roof, RHEINZINK is featured on the building’s fascia and soffits.

Buildings at prestigious universities often take on iconic status, as many provide literally 100-plus years of service to make them key focal points that define the campus. Such is the case with Duke University in Durham, NC. When it came time to restore the copper leaderheads on Few Quad at Duke, it’s certain that the selection of replacement materials was not taken lightly. Ornametals Manufacturing, LLC stepped in to provide exactly what was needed for this historic restoration, in the form of copper leaderheads that matched the existing ones.

The 650 residents of the small farming community of Hamel, Ill., 30 miles northeast of St. Louis, had not enjoyed the convenience of a local grocery store in over 10 years. To remedy this problem, four local couples joined together to finance and build D.K.'s Market (named after the initials of the owners' children) and chose as contractor R.W. Boeker Company, also of Hamel, a Ceco Building Systems builder since 1987.

While not permitted to reveal the project’s location, Panel Built Inc., a Blairsville, GA-based manufacturer of prefabricated, relocatable structures, is nonetheless excited to share the highlights of an interesting project it completed for the United States Navy.

Located on a high-traffic, signature intersection in Taylorville, IL, Palmer Bank sought a timeless design that would visually represent its strength and stability to the community. Approximately 12,000 sq. ft. of 24 gauge, 16” Petersen Snap-Clad panels and 2,200 sq. ft. of PAC-850 Soffit Panels were utilized to meet the design objectives. Design for the design/build project was provided by The Redmond Company, Waukesha, WI.

A custom stainless steel metal fabric ceiling system from Cambridge Architectural smartly drapes between lighting fixtures, creating a clean and modern overhead surface for the newly renovated Louisiana State University (LSU) Student Union Theater lobby in Baton Rouge, LA. Originally constructed in 1965, the LSU Student Union Theater is the largest theater venue on the school's campus.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation, a premier nationwide provider of metal panels for the building and construction industry, covered the new Lafayette Library and Learning Center in Lafayette, CA with 31,000 square feet of vibrant and durable roofing panels. The Vertical Seam 24 gauge panels, coated in a cool Mistique Plus color, provide a complementary design aesthetic as well as sustainable functionality. The project team consisted of Killefer Flammang Architects, Santa Monica, CA, and installer PetersenDean, Newark, CA.

Located on the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, NC, the David H. Murdock Core Laboratory features a beautiful copper standing seam roof that is the perfect complement to the facility’s brick exterior. The focal point of the laboratory’s roof is a majestic copper dome topped by a 10’-high copper finial, created from copper supplied by Ornametals.

With decorative appeal in mind, The Preston Partnership of Falls Church, VA, designed the buildings of the new North Tract Loft Apartment community with a variety of exterior cladding materials, including 85,000 square feet of Bright Silver Omega-Lite aluminum composite panels, manufactured by Laminators Incorporated. Omega-Lite panels contain a total of 70% recycled content which can contribute to achieving LEED points.