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The Hyde Park Bank building, located in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, was the largest bank building outside of the city’s Loop business district when it opened in 1929, and it remains a landmark today. A 2005 renovation of the bank’s immense, marble-lined banking hall by Florian Architects of Chicago won a National Honor Award from [Read More]

Stratford Landing Elementary School has been an anchor in its Alexandria, Va., neighborhood for decades since it first opened its doors in 1964. While renovations had been made over the years, administrators with the Fairfax County Public Schools determined the facility was ready for a major makeover in 2015. Construction on the $25 million project [Read More]

When schools embark on making capital improvements, ensuring those projects won’t come with ongoing maintenance bills is a big concern. Getting a bond issue passed or receiving another significant form of one-time financing can be easier than adding another ongoing expense to an already tight budget. This is why many schools turn to metal roofing [Read More]

Electric utilities and their line workers depend on a range of vehicles to keep power flowing and to return service to customers when outages occur. This means the buildings used to store and maintain those vehicles can be critical to operational efficiency. As a new purpose-built maintenance facility for Gulf Power’s Panama City, Fla., operations [Read More]

The otherwise flat roof of the Lawrenceville Senior Center in Lawrenceville, Ga., features two sweeping arches – one over each of the building’s two wings – that act as a counterpoint to the building’s highly angular façade. A desire to maintain the arches’ sleek, streamlined appearance was critical in the architects’ selection of Petersen’s Tite-Loc [Read More]

Libraries designed and built today have a mission that extends far beyond book lending, as the recently opened Madison Public Library in Madison, Ala., proves. This new 25,000-sq.-ft. facility offers room for events ranging from musical performances to makerspace demonstrations, and it’s sized to serve the expanding community of 55,000 residents located in the Huntsville, [Read More]

Staff members at Randolph Health Medical Group, serving residents of Asheboro, N.C., and the surrounding area, pride themselves on a creating a personal connection with their patients – and that human touch shows through in the design of their new Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine facility. The building’s low lines and overhanging eaves are topped [Read More]

Marco Island, Fla., offers a tropical climate, a gorgeous coastline and picture-postcard sunsets, among many other treats for the senses. However, this barrier island located off the coast of Naples, Fla., also can find itself in the crosshairs of approaching hurricanes. That was certainly the case on Sept. 11, 2017, when Hurricane Irma made landfall [Read More]

More than 18,000 sq. ft. of Petersen’s Tite-Loc Plus roof panels in a distinct Marquis Orange finish help emphasize the angled gables topping the Greater Latrobe School District’s new Latrobe Elementary School in Latrobe, Pa. The 22-gauge panels, along with 3,800 sq. ft. of .032 gauge PAC-CLAD 750 soffit, complement the classic terra cotta-toned brick [Read More]

When the growing Church at War Hill organization based in Dawsonville, Ga., embarked on an addition and renovations at one of its four churches, it also opted for PAC-CLAD panels to both protect the building’s exterior and provide a bit of branding. The design incorporates varying panel colors and orientations to call out the building’s [Read More]