Featured Projects

The Connecticut Science Center engages everyone who walks through its doors, capturing the excitement and wonder of science, as well as embodying the region’s commitment to education and cultural enrichment. Located in Hartford, CT, the 154,000-square-foot structure is part of the Adriaen’s Landing development, which includes a new convention center, a major hotel and several public attractions along the Connecticut River. Metal panels by CENTRIA played a key role in the science center's design.

Diamond Jo Casino is a state-of-the-art casino and entertainment facility located at the Port of Dubuque in Iowa. The complex includes almost 1,000 slot machines, a bowling alley, restaurants, bars, retail stores, an entertainment theatre and parking ramp. The casino features 35,000 square feet of 24-gauge UNA-CLAD™ UC-4 no-clip standing seam metal roofing, soffit panels and trim stock. All the metal was supplied with a Hemlock Green paint finish.

The Timberline Learning Center is the new childcare facility designed to provide affordable, quality care for 60 full-time children in the town of Breckenridge, CO. Since a nearby childcare center was closing soon, scheduling became a top priority for everyone involved with the project. Other project priorities included safety and security, sustainable design and budget. With the project priorities in mind, Omega-Lite, an aluminum composite panel manufactured by Laminators Inc., was selected as one of the exterior cladding materials for the facility.

One of the amenities of the renovated Constitution Center office building in Washington, DC is a one-acre garden courtyard designed to provide relaxation space for tenants. A focal point of the courtyard is a 4,300 sq. ft. compound-radius wall clad with RHEINZINK® Flat Lock Panels. The 1mm, 20-gauge Pre-weathered Blue-Gray panels were fabricated by MetalTech—USA, Peachtree City, GA, and installed by Prospect Waterproofing, Sterling, VA.

Architect Bayne Collins was thumbing through a book on old Cuba when he spotted the picture of a 19th Century Cuban cigar factory that would ultimately become the inspiration for his design of a new oceanfront restaurant building in Panama City, Florida called the Shrimp Boat. Among the materials used for the building's construction was jobsite-rollformed Englert metal roofing.

St. Joseph Mercy Health Center in Canton, MI has opened the Center For Advanced Medicine & Surgery. The 53,000 sq. ft. outpatient facility offers a variety of advanced services - some of which are normally found only at full-service hospitals. Several Petersen panel profiles were selected to meet the design objectives for the $20 million project.

In 1959 the Milwaukee Housing Authority built Convent Hill, a public housing complex for low-income senior citizens. Today, on that same site stands the new Convent Hill, a 10-story complex of 120 apartments, two retail spaces on the ground floor, a neighborhood computer lab and a Milwaukee County meal program open to those who live in the Milwaukee, WI, urban neighborhood at which Convent Hill is the center. Featured on the new facility are architectural metal products from CENTRIA.

The new Nebraska Public Power District Operations Center in Norfolk, NE consolidates four previously separate locations into one highly sustainable, green facility. The 87,000 sq. ft. building has achieved LEED Gold certification. Featured on the building's exterior are 15,000 sq. ft. of Dri-Design rainscreen metal wall panels. Most of the panels were fabricated from zinc while the remainder are aluminum.

The Maryland Port Authority recently completed a metal-over-metal retrofit of their Port Of Baltimore Cruise Terminal facility. The 65,000 square foot building, located at the Port of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland, accommodates passengers embarking on vacations booked with Royal Caribbean, Celebrity and Carnival Cruise Lines to exotic ports of call. The project features metal roofing by Metal-Fab Manufacturing (Met-Fab) and factory-notched sub-purlins supplied by Roof Hugger, Inc.

Triangle Park is a calm oasis among the hustle and bustle of Downtown Pittsburgh, PA. It features handsome benches under a stainless steel canopy to provide shade and protection from rain and snow. The park, which opened in late 2009, is the result of donations by two Pittsburgh area companies, Contrarian Metal Resources in Allison Park, and ATI, Downtown.

Adjacent to the Providence Amtrak Station and tied directly to the Riverwalk pedestrian system, the Capitol Cove Condominium development boasts 750,000 sq. ft. of mixed-use residential, office and retail space in the heart of the Capital District in Providence, RI. Among the products used to create the building's modern, aesthetically pleasing look were Dove Grey Omega-Lite metal wall panels from Laminators Incorporated.

A major addition on the Southfield Campus of Oakland Community College in Southfield, MI, provides much-needed classroom and administrative space. To blend the new construction with an existing building, the project's architect finished the exterior of the addition with 28,000 sq. ft. of Metl-Span CF30 Architectural Flat panels. The 2" panels, installed horizontally, were finished in Regal White and Cool Metallic Silver.

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.