Architekton

Posted 06/23/2011

Over the last two months, the Metal Architecture editorial staff spent hours pouring over past issues, trying to identify our favorite projects. While picking favorites was no easy task, we enjoyed re-experiencing the variety, excitement and beauty of the projects that have graced the pages of the magazine over the last 25 years. Finalizing our list involved significant debate, and we are proud to present our favorite projects in celebration of Metal Architecture's 25th Anniversary.

SPORTS & REC                                                                                                 Scottsdale Community College Fitness Center, Scottsdale, Ariz.                  Posted 06/9/2011

Although cost was a major reason behind the decision to use a metal building system for the new fitness center, the facility's appearance is enhanced through the treatment of the framing system as an architectural element. The 26,500-square-foot structure's reverse haunch CB-4 framing system was manufactured by Varco Pruden Buildings. The building is 195 feet long by 138 feet wide with 30-foot eaves. Varco Pruden also supplied the horizontally oriented ribbed panels, vertically installed flush panels and the SSR standing-seam metal roof panels.

Metal building, roof and wall panels: Varco Pruden Buildings, Memphis, Tenn., www.vp.com
Originally published: August 2001
Architect: Architeckton, Tempe, Ariz.
General contractor: TelStar Construction,
Albuquerque, N.M.
Erector: Arizona Building Systems, Phoenix

SPORTS & REC
Rio Vista Recreation Center, Peoria, Ariz.

Posted 06/9/2011

Located at the heart of the Rio Vista District Park, the $10 million, 51,376-square-foot Rio Vista Recreation Center embraces its surroundings, evoking its environment and the neighboring lake. Featuring a dramatic entry porch with bridges and cantilevered decks, the recreation center is situated on an existing peninsula at the park's entry, where it is the focal point that everything radiates from and its design ties in with the park's concept. The multigenerational recreation center features a game room, racquetball courts, climbing wall, gymnasium, aerobics studio, walking/jogging track, dance studio, fitness equipment, nursery, multipurpose room, conference rooms, classrooms, locker rooms, kitchen and more. The two-story facility combines masonry, structural steel and concrete with azure glass, perforated COR-TEN steel and metal roofing. Interior finishes include hand-placed sandstone, ground concrete and steel ceilings.

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp. supplied 3,000 square feet of 22-gauge solid nonperforated ribbed COR-TEN steel panels and 15,500 square feet of 18-gauge perforated ribbed COR-TEN steel panels. United States Steel Corp. supplied the COR-TEN steel, and Diamond Perforated Metals Inc. perforated the panels. The perforated panels were used on the large front signage wall, while the nonperforated panels were used on the soffits and as an exterior skin for some of the building's walls. Additionally, the project featured structural steel fabricated from Maricopa Steel; approximately 10,000 square feet of the Arcadia curtainwall system from Aluglas LLC; a variety of interior ceiling and wall panels from Alpro Acoustical Systems, and approximately 27,000 square feet of Zee-Lock metal roof panels from Berridge Manufacturing Co. The metal roof panels were rollformed on-site by Total Metals.

Originally published: July 2009
Building owner: City of Peoria
Architect: ARCHITEKTON, Tempe, Ariz.
Design-build contractor: Haydon Building Corp., Phoenix
Interior ceiling and wall panel supplier and installer: TP Acoustics, Phoenix
Metal wall and roof panel installer: Total Metals, Chandler, Ariz.
Structural steel distributor: Smith Pipe and Steel, Phoenix
Structural steel fabricator: Maricopa Steel, Apache Junction, Ariz.
Perforator: Diamond Perforated Metals Inc., Visalia, Calif., www.diamondperf.com
Ceiling and wall panels: Alpro Acoustical Systems, a division of Gordon Inc., Bossier City, La., www.gordon-inc.com/acoustics
COR-TEN steel: United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, www.ussteel.com
Curtainwall: Aluglas LLC, Chandler, Ariz., (480) 752-0523
Metal wall panels: Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp., Louisville, Ky., www.metalsales.us.com

Metal roof panels: Berridge Manufacturing Co., San Antonio, www.berridge.com

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