The Metal Construction Association, Glenview, Ill., recognized its 2009 President’s Award winners at its Annual Meeting in Naples, Fla., in late January. The President’s Awards are an annual designation given to outstanding building projects involving MCA members. The awards honor innovation and creativity while showcasing how MCA members’ products help achieve unique building designs.
Each year, winners are selected from project submitted by MCA members to Metal Architecture magazine’s annual Design Awards program. MCA board members chose winners in five categories: Overall Excellence, Roofing, Commercial-Industrial, Municipal-Institutional and Residential. The MCA President’s Awards are presented to representatives of MCA member companies as well as architects, contractors and fabricators involved in each project.
The projects that received their respective MCA President’s Awards for 2009 were:
Overall Excellence: Central Los Angeles Area High School #9, Los Angeles
Roofing: St. Aloysius of Gonzaga Church, Jackson, N.J.
Commercial-Industrial: ISPC Corporate Offices, Tampa, Fla.
Municipal-Institutional: Benicia-Martinez California Toll Plaza, Martinez, Calif.
Residential: MuSh Residence, Los Angeles
Overall Excellence
Central Los Angeles Area High School #9, Los Angeles
Central Los Angeles Area High School #9 is a new high school project with an emphasis on the visual and performing arts and the Los Angeles Unified School District wanted a campus that would reflect the creativity of its students through the architecture of its buildings. The 238,000-square-foot (22,110-m2) complex on a10.26-acre (4.2-hectares) site is comprised on seven unique buildings.
Gray Velvet ACM was installed using theR4-300 system on all academy and art building facades. Reynobond Natural Stainless Steel Composite from Alcoa Architectural Products, Eastman, Ga., was selected for aesthetic as well as practical reasons and installed using the R4300 system on the exterior of the lobby, lobby canopy and pop-out windows. Reynobond Natural Brushed Aluminum Composite was installed using the R4-300 system on the skylights and at miscellaneous locations. The rainscreen system allow for very clean joint detailing (visually open and thin joints), and has no exposed fasteners; also the separation of building layers allows each layer tobe more intact relative to its function.
Riverside Group, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, was the metal fabricator on the project and Custom Metal Fabricators Inc., Herington, Kan., installed more than 73,000 square feet (6,782 m2) of metal panels. PCL Construction Services, Glendale, Calif.,was the general contractor on the project. COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, Vienna, Austria, was the design architect and HMC Architects, Los Angeles, was the executive architect.
Roofing
St. Aloysius of Gonzaga Church, Jackson, N.J.
Philadelphia-based Erdy McHenry Architecture LLC,the designated architect for this project, did extensive research into the life and ministry of St. Aloysius of Gonzaga Church that led to their design featuring delicate soaring roof lines evoking the concept of simple worship, anchored by four massive piers at the corners providing the foundation to the building.The standing-seam, hyperbolic parabolic roof structure serves as a distinguishable image for the church. The architect chose a Series 1300, 17-inch(432-mm), 24-gauge standing-seam panel from Englert Inc., Perth Amboy, N.J., for the roof material.
Excell Roofing, Whiting, N.J., installed the more than 37,000 square feet (3,437 m2) of Dove Gray Galvalume metal covering the roof.
Commercial-Industrial
ISPC Corporate Offices, Tampa, Fla.
Building owner ISPC Financing required a strong image in their corporate office building design which embraced the team oriented work ethic that has allowed the company to grow over the past 25 years. Metal facing provides a sleek, strongly vertical surface to convey stability and strength. Aluminum composite material from Alcan Composites USA, Mooresville, N.C., is composed of 0.020-inch-
(0.5-mm-) thick aluminum facing (interior and exterior) with a 0.2-inch- (4-mm-) thick polyethylenecore. The 7,200 square feet
(669 m2) of facing was installed by Kistler-McDougall Corp., Woodstock,Ga., and was coil coated in a copper penny color. Four- by 2-foot (1 by 0.6-m) panels were attached using the rainscreen method.
The architect for this project is ROJO Architecture,Tampa, and Bollenback Builders, Oldsmar, Fla., is the general contractor.
Municipal-Institutional
Benicia-Martinez California Toll Plaza, Martinez, Calif.
The new Benicia-Martinez toll plaza was designed to replace an original toll plaza built in 1962 that no longer could meet standards for efficient toll collection. To incorporate both the unique curvilinear forms and a changing color scheme in the design of the plaza, approximately 55,000 square feet (5,110 m2) of Alucobond ACM from Alcan Composite USA in the 0.16-inch (4-mm) thickness and Copper Metallic color and 6,000 square feet (557 m2) of Alucobond in the 0.16-inch thickness and Shimmering Teal color were used to clad the building walls and canopies. The panels were fabricated by Elward Systems Corp., Lakewood, Colo., and installed byC/S Erectors Inc., San Ramon, Calif.
Both the architect and general contractor on the project is the California Department of Transportation.
Residential
MuSh Residence, Los Angeles
Aesthetics, durability, flexibility of application and ease of installation were the reasons that metal was chosen for the unique MuSh residential project. Two separate structures on a typical subdivision infill lot include a garage, art studio within one structure and the main house as the other. A custom patterned rainscreen was designed and detailed by Los Angeles-based Studio 0.10 Architects, and provided by Umicore Building Products USA Inc., Raleigh, N.C. The interlocking panels had never been used in short, non-continuous vertical runs before but the manufacturer was able to minimize the scale of the joints found in larger scale buildings while still satisfying panel expansion throughout the daily cycle and also to roll form differing dimensional panels to yield.
Priority Sheet Metal, Chino, Calif., installed approximately 5,000 square feet (465 m2) of Charcoal color rollformed VM Anthra Zinc interlocking panels.
Bonomo Development, Los Angeles, was the general contractor on the project.