Photo: Mike Sinclair
Metal Architecture is proud to present the winners of the 2022 Metal Architecture Design Awards. This year’s winners represent a variety of great projects in the metal construction industry and showcase exciting uses of metal that take design to the top of the class.
Metal Architecture would like to thank all of the nominees and our three judges for their hard work.
Click on the headlines to read more about these exciting projects.
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| Lee Calisti, AIA, principal of lee CALISTI architecture + design, Greensburg, Pa. |
Rand Elliott, FAIA, president of Rand Elliott Architects, Oklahoma City |
Mark Roddy, FAIA, principal of Mark Roddy Architects, Sacramento, Calif. |
Photo: Mike Sinclair
Grand Award Winner
Lone Oaks Farm Hunter Education Center, Middleton, Tenn.
The 2022 Metal Architecture Design Award judges were so impressed with the overall project, they named it the Grand Award winner. “It’s just so elegant and beautiful,” says judge Mark Roddy, FAIA, principal of Mark Roddy Architects, Sacramento, Calif. “It’s a beautiful take on a vernacular, and I think the simplicity and just this simple elegance of that textured metal is so beautifully contrasted with the wood liner on the inside of it. It’s just super elegant; it’s beautiful.”
Photo: Tim Griffith
Metal Roofing
County of Santa Clara Animal Services Center, San Martin, Calif.
The dynamic gabled metal roof on the County of Santa Clara Animal Services Center in San Martin, Calif., is its stand-out feature. With its five gabled roof forms, the metal roof blends in with the surrounding landscape, while bringing attention to the new animal facility. The Design Award judges were so taken by the center’s metal roof, they named it the category winner for Metal Roofing.
Photo: Ken West Photography
Ribbed Metal Wall Panels
Advanced Technology Center at Delgado Community College, New Orleans
A composition of cladding rich with smooth, corrugated, vertical, horizontal, solid, perforated and curved metal panels on Advanced Technology Center at Delgado Community College in New Orleans earned it esteem among the judging panel for the 2022 Metal Architecture Design Awards.
Photos courtesy of Ryan Lahiff
Smooth Metal Wall Panels
Maspeth Squash Court, Maspeth, N.Y.
“The choice of metal was the natural result of its location in a steel fabrication facility and the abundance of available steel laborers,” says Sari Chang, principal at Jacobschang Architecture, New York City. Because of the steel court’s popularity, it has become a model for what could be successfully utilized in a public setting. Pros who have used the Maspeth Squash Court say it plays ‘true’ in squash parlance, in that the surface is consistent with no seams—the steel panel joints have been grinded smooth—and playing outdoors adds a new dimension to the sport.”
Photo: Kristian Alvero
Metal Buildings
Woodinville Whiskey Co. Processing Facility, Quincy, Wash.
In naming the project the winner in the Metal Buildings category, the Design Award judges called the project authentic. Lee Calisti, AIA, notes the honesty shown in its structure and skin, calling it a “tectonic clarity to it that is just really nice.” Rand Elliott, FAIA adds that the project is inspiring. “It doesn’t have to be just a metal building. It can have integrity, it can have good proportions, it can have a relationship to what goes on inside of it. This would be a great example for anybody. If all the metal buildings built today had this kind of quality to it, the world would be a better place.”
Photo: Aaron Dougherty Photography
Interiors
Seventeenth & Madison, Kansas City, Mo.
From the moment someone approaches the entrance to the Seventeenth & Madison building in Kansas City, Mo., until the time they leave, they encounter metal elements that act as a wayfinding system. Furthermore, the metal applications form a strong relationship between the existing masonry building and its new, modern, renovated state.
Renovations & Retrofit
EJ Basler, Schiller Park, Ill.
Since the steel structure was in good shape, Amstadter Architects’ solution was to redo the metal building system, adding new cladding with insulated metal panels (IMPs). That renovation caught the eyes of the Metal Architecture Design Award judges, and they honored the project with the award in the Renovation and Retrofit category.
Natural Metals
Private Retreat, Lake Huron, Ontario
Along the shore of Lake Huron, a private retreat blends with nature in both its sustainable practices and its design motif. There are many things that caught the judges’ eyes and why they named it the Natural Metals category winner in the Metal Architecture Design Awards. “There’s a very humble restraint,” says judge Lee Calisti, AIA. “The purpose, the place. This isn’t somebody trying to show everything they can do. They just had real simple forms that are elevated. They had one detail for the eave and the corner and they just ran with it.”
Photo: Mohammad Ashkanani, www.mohammadtaqi.com
Sustainable
College of Life Sciences at Kuwait University, Kuwait City
Perforated aluminum screen walls create dramatic, sweeping veils in front of curtainwalls on two buildings that comprise Kuwait University’s College of Life Sciences in Kuwait City. The judging panel for the 2022 Metal Architecture Design Awards praised the simple, creative and innovative use of metal to respond to the desert environment with stunning facades and overall design.
Judges Award
Bayview SAFE Navigation Center, San Francisco
Among many details, it is that space that caught the judges’ eyes. “It surprised me,” says judge Rand Elliott, FAIA. “Using metal building parts like they should be used. Taking the parts, rearranging them, using them for what they do best, which is simple volume, structural integrity and that sort of thing and making a space that is friendly. That’s human. This could be a brewery someplace. This could be a great restaurant someplace or any number of things, using a standard kit of parts and raising it to a whole other level. Even the paint color is soothing. It looks like a place you’d hang out with your friends.”
PHOTOS: MICHAEL ROBINSON PHOTOGRAPHY, COURTESY OF SAPP DESIGN ARCHITECTS
Judges Award
MCPL Colbern Road Library, Lee’s Summit, Mo.
Most libraries aren’t normally considered “elegant.” But the exterior of the MCPL Colbern Library Center in Lee’s Summit, Mo., is, according to 2022 Metal Architecture Awards judge Lee Calisti, AIA. “Normally, you don’t get this kind of elegance in a library; [it] would get value-engineered out. This entire gesture falls on this crinkling of metal. [It’s] almost like it was crushed up in your hand, then pulled out, then stretched out and wrapped around the fascia. It becomes the identity of the building. This project is all about this singular gesture.”
Judges Award
Awards judge Lee Calisti, AIA, says its detail is impressive saying, “The fact that they had this detail all the way up the building really says something. One problem with 20th century tall towers is they don’t have any detail beyond ground level as our predecessors did. There’s no ornamentation at the Seagram’s Tower or pick any other tower out there. But this architect convinced his client to replicate these panels all the way to the top and so kudos to that. There’s an elegance to that.”