The“What”Behind “What If” Turning the “What If” drawings of design into construction reality takes talent, knowledge and, in many cases, perseverance.

With each demanding project, architects, engineers, specifiers, contractors and suppliers have mounted an incredible history of innovative product adaptation and creative product development. You have found ways to transform blueprints and models into substantive structures. Faced with challenges, you have been able to find plausible solutions. And when asked to stretch the boundaries of construction, you have answered with impressive options.

For over 100 years, CENTRIA Architectural Systems has partnered with you, providing quality, versatile materials while always exploring new possibilities. As you bring more projects to reality, we look forward to continuing this successful collaboration, because at CENTRIA, we are in the business of turning “what if” into “what is”. Left To Right

University of Cincinnati Campus Recreation Center Guthrie Theater Yerba Buena Center for the Arts International Trade Center Parking Deck University of Phoenix Stadium

The following pages feature five significant “What If” projects. In every case, the choice for the exterior wall panels involved metal cladding solutions. In one instance, metal was chosen for its strong powerful appearance; in another, its unique reflective character was desired; and in still another, metal’s extreme flexibility won the day. Details of how CENTRIA – a premier manufacturer of What Did metal wall systems – helped turn each project’s “What If” into “What Is” are included for your reference.

It Take? CENTRIA’s portfolio includes 12 product lines, totaling over 50 products for exterior metal wall and roof applications. We also provide special applications, finishes, sizes, colors, curvatures and reveals, plus sustainability certification and advanced performance in thermal and moisture protection, as well as energy conservation. UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI C a m p us RECREATION CENTER

CINCINNATI, OHIO M ULTIFUNCTIONAL BUILDING HOUS es ATHLETICS, DOR M I T O R I E S , CLASSROO M S and DINING FACILITIES, AS WELL AS STADIU M GRANDSTANDS They Can. Project Highlights Silver metallic skin with an unusual module size of 10½" with a 1" reveal. Deep recessed windows.

CENTRIA Dealer: Architect: Thom Mayne, founder of California architectural Geiger Construction Products, Thom Mayne firm Morphosis and winner of the 2005 Pritzker Cincinnati, Ohio Morphosis, Santa Monica, California with Prize, called the University of Cincinnati Center the most complicated building he had done in his life. KZF Design, Cincinnati, Ohio General Contractor: Turner Construction Company Project Timeline: 2003–2005 Cincinnati, Ohio The “What” Behind Mayne’s “What If” Centrally located at the heart of UC’s campus, the Student Recreation Center completes the University’s transformation from a commuter college to an urban university and merges three buildings into one, with all-encompassing architecture.

This building is a dramatic example of Mayne’s hard-edged design – design that Important Features. seeks to surpass the boundaries of traditional By re-calibrating CENTRIA’s manufacturing lines, forms and materials. the width of the standard 24" Formawall Dimension Series panel was reduced to 10½". CENTRIA has hundreds of metal wall panel options and can cus- tomize panel profiles if your budget and quantities justify this individualism.

Product Information Standard Special ® 24" Panel 10½" Panel Formawall Quantity Gauge Substrate Texture Paint Color Coatings Dimension Series® ® 101⁄2" Wide with 1" 45,000 sf 22/26 Galvanized G90 Smooth Exterior Classic Silver Fluorofinish Joint Between Panels. Embossed Interior Metallic GUTHRIE THEATER

M INNEA P O L I S , M INNESOTA THE THEATER’S DESIGN WAS HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY THE SIZE AND SCALE OF THE HISTORIC INDUSTRIAL AND AGRARIAN BUILDINGS AROUND IT Jean Nouvel is France’s maverick but award-winning architect. Nouvel places enormous importance on It Can. designing buildings that are Project Highlights harmonious with their site and surroundings. The theater is elevated 50 feet above the ground for stunning views of the Mississippi River. Curved high-gloss metallic panels with silkscreened images.

CENTRIA Dealer: Architect: Crown Corr, Inc. Ateliers Jean Nouvel The “What” Gary, Indiana Paris, France with Behind Nouvel’s “What If” Architectural Alliance General Contractor: Minneapolis, Minnesota To make the structure itself a dream-like theater event, Nouvel McGough Construction wanted to wrap the building in performance photography of past Guthrie events. These figures, Nouvel demanded, must come St. Paul, Minnesota Project Timeline: alive against the twilight sky – the magic hour when the theater January 2004–June 2006 welcomes audiences.

Important Features. To accomplish the architect’s demand, CENTRIA had to finish the building’s exterior wall panels with just the right shade of blue. It was a requirement CENTRIA could deliver on because, unlike others, CENTRIA has its own coil coating facility that can easily The Guthrie Theater is a $125 million, 250,000 create short-run, custom colors. The final effect is stunning, as square-foot center located in the historic the images float and fade ghost-like into the dark. Mills District of downtown Minneapolis.

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Formawall Quantity Gauge Substrate Texture Paint Color Dimension Series 2" & 3" 123,600 sf 20/26 Galvanized G90 Smooth Guthrie Blue Smooth Striated Metallic YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS GALLERIES AND FORU M

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA THE BUILDING WAS JA PANESE ARCHITECT FU M I H I K O M A K I ’ S F I R S T M A J O R C O m m ISSION IN THE UNITED STATES Fumihiko Maki, a renowned architect and Pritzer Award recipient, uses modular systems in planning and They Do. standardizing building Project Highlights components. Much of his work is sited in Japan. Asymmetrical ribbed product developed by CENTRIA for this project has evolved into a whole line of CENTRIA interchangeable profiles, all with an asymmetrical shape and all useable either horizontally or vertically. The Galleries and Forum building was designed as part of the Garden The “What” Center’s total urban landscape. Behind Maki’s “What If” CENTRIA Dealer: Architect: Legend has it that Maki had all the available metal profile panels B.T. Mancini Company Fumihiko Maki assembled for him in one room. After surveying the choices he Milpitas, California Tokyo, Japan with announced: “Now I know what I don’t want.” CENTRIA quickly created what he did want, an asymmetrical panel useable either RMW Architecture horizontally or vertically. General Contractor: San Francisco, California Turner Construction San Francisco, California Project Timeline: 1992–1993 Important Features. CENTRIA has the manufacturing and engineering capability to provide custom panel profiles if your project budget and quantities justify this individualism.

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Galleries and Forum is a 54,000-square-foot building that houses three galleries as well as a multi- use forum and video theater. The exterior design called for a light façade of metal, as Maki wanted to avoid giving the impression Product Information of monumentality. Symmetrical Asymmetrical Metal Panel Metal Panel Quantity Gauge Substrate Texture Paint Color Coatings IW-60A 10,000 sf 20 Galvanized G90 Smooth “Maki” Silver Custom Metallic INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTER PARKING DECK

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA TODAY THIS PARKING DECK’S FAçADE IS ONE OF THE CITY’S M OST VISIBLE AND INTERESTING ARTWORKS Ned Kahn is an environmental sculptor and a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. Kahn was It Did. commissioned by the Bank of America to transform a Project Highlights parking deck eyesore into eye-catching artwork. Wind discs hung on an 80' x 400' screen echo the wind’s movement. Perforated EcoScreen™ panels folded into vertical pleats accomplished Kahn’s vision of a wall with a vaporous look. Hazy blue lighting illuminates the project for night viewing.

CENTRIA Dealer: Architect: The “What” SECO Architectural Systems, Inc. Ned Kahn with Behind Kahn’s “What If” Snellville, Georgia Little Diversified The structure: Wind Silos was created by using CENTRIA’s Architectural Consulting stainless steel perforated EcoScreen that had been folded General Contractor: Charlotte, North Carolina into vertical pleats and then banded with a 16-foot ribbon of Rodgers Builders 5-inch stainless steel discs. Charlotte, North Carolina Project Timeline: May 2005–September 2005 The discs: Each disc was individually mounted on a pivot so they move freely in the wind and reflect the light at different times of the day, as well as the light from surrounding buildings at night. They even, at times, show a ghostly outline of the cars parked on the deck. The night lighting: At night, Kahn elected to light the screen with cobalt blue, a color he says the human eye has a hard time bringing into focus, so the structure has a fuzzy halo quality that adds to its dream-like luminosity and air of mystery.

The deck enclosure is an 80' x 400' retrofit project that covers the east side of the 875-space International Trade Center (ITC) parking facility. The final effect is called “Wind Silos.” Product Information

EcoScreen Perforated Quantity Gauge Substrate Texture Paint Color Coatings Stainless Steel 30,000 sf 20 304 Stainless Steel Perforated N/A N/A 40% Free Area U niversity of p H O E N I x S TA D I U M

GLENDALE, ARIZONA T H E M OST RECOGNIZABLE STADIU M IN THE COUNTRY Peter Eisenman, an internationally renowned architect and educator, founded the Institute for It Does. Architecture and Urban Project Highlights Studies and also received the Guggenheim Fellowship. One of the largest Formawall projects constructed features curved panels in the shape of a barrel cactus.

CENTRIA Dealer: Architect: Crown Corr Eisenman Architects with The “What” Gary, Indiana HOK Sport Behind Eisenman’s “What If” Eisenman designed the stadium to resemble the rolled-back General Contractor: Wall Consultant: symmetry of the area’s desert barrel cactus. To achieve the Hunt Construction Group, Inc. Crown Corr curved surface and dramatic light reflection Eisenman Indianapolis, Indiana Gary, Indiana envisioned, the stadium’s surface was clad in over 8,000 2"-thick CENTRIA Formawall Dimension Series panels. Project Timeline: 2004–2006 Two Important Features Were Critical To Achieving Eisenman’s Vision.

The university stadium Eisenman designed 1. Sloped Drainshelf Joinery: 45° Angle 450 900 seats 63,400 fans and contains a moveable CENTRIA, along with our dealer Angle Angle playing field as well as a translucent fabric Crown Corr, developed a 45- roof that can be opened in 45 minutes. degree-angled joinery that ensures moisture is not trapped45° Angle 90° Angle within the panel even as it bends back. Standard 90-degree- angled joinery would have significantly jeopardized the 90° Angle panels’ weather integrity. Product Information

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Formawall Dimension Series 460,000 sf of 36" panels 22/22 Galvanized G90 Embossed Platinum Fluorofinish Classic II Mica 2. Chorded Panels: Horizontal Steep Drain Shelf All CENTRIA panels are in reality absolutely flat, but they were chorded MR3-36 65,000 sf 22 Galvanized G90 Embossed Platinum Fluorofinish Classic II Mica to provide the illusion of a seamlessly curved surface. The completed stadium is a graceful replica in metal of the BR5-36 33,000 sf 22 Galvanized G90 Embossed Platinum Fluorofinish Classic II Mica region’s distinctive barrel cactus.

Econolap 1⁄2" 7,000 sf 20 Galvanized G90 Embossed Regal White Fluorofinish We Are In The Business of Turning “What If” Into “What Is”

This gallery of commercial projects is meant to give you additional insight into the flexibility and versatility of CENTRIA’s metal wall cladding. CENTRIA can provide smooth or textured surfaces; long, linear panels or sweeping curves; intricate details or angular simplicity. The possibilities are nearly limitless.

Museum of Flight Bedford Middle School FedEx Emerging Technology Center University of Pennsylvania University of Arkansas Seattle, Washington Westport, Connecticut Memphis, Tennessee Chilled Water Plant Fayetteville, Arkansas Product: Versawall® Product: IW-60A Product: Formawall Dimension Series Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Product: Formawall Dimension Products: EcoScreen Perforated Series with Duracast® Georgia Tech Aquatic Center North Carolina State University Discover Springs Office Building Screenwall, IW-60A and Formawall Atlanta, Georgia Media Center Middleton, Wisconsin Dimension Series National Air and Space Museum Products: Formawall Dimension Series Raleigh, North Carolina Product: FormaBond® Chantilly, Virginia and Style-Rib Product: Formawall Dimension Series Charlotte Douglas International Product: Formawall Dimension Series Airport Parking Deck Charlotte, North Carolina Product: EcoScreen What Is Important About CENTRIA

Superior Manufacturing Facilities from the U.S. Green Building Council for their Green CENTRIA has nearly one million square feet of Building Rating System. The Cradle to Cradle certification manufacturing space in four primary locations. Our process is administered by McDonough Braungart Design plants have the most sophisticated automated production Chemistry which evaluates a material or products for their technology available to fabricate standard products complete formulation and their impact on environmental as well as custom orders. and human health. Contact your CENTRIA representative for more information. Comprehensive In-House Coil Coating Unlike most manufacturers, CENTRIA controls our own LEED® Credits coil coating processes so the company is able to apply Many other positive features of CENTRIA products both conventional and specialized coatings. In addition, can earn LEED credits for recycled content, optimized this in-house arrangement gives CENTRIA complete energy performance, and more. control over scheduling, production and quality. Advanced Thermal Moisture Protection (ATMP®) Extensive Product Testing CENTRIA is at the forefront of developing external Every CENTRIA product is the result of a rigorous wall design concepts that provide superior thermal and testing program, garnering the approval of appropriate moisture control when compared to existing systems. U.S. authorities, including UL, FM, BOCA, AST, ATMP solutions involve lightweight single-component, SBCCI, SwRI, UBC, ICBC and others. factory-formed insulated metal panels that are installed outboard of a building’s metal studs. Dealers CENTRIA has a national network of Authorized Dealers. Over a Century of Experience These Authorized Dealers have hands-on product installa- CENTRIA’s predecessor companies – HH Robertson, tion knowledge and are trained and tested by CENTRIA. E.G. Smith and Steelite – set the bar high, and today the company continues to pursue innovation and Cradle to Cradle Certification performance excellence. CENTRIA’s Cradle to Cradle certified products are now eligible to earn LEED Innovation in Design credits Centria Architectural Systems 1005 Beaver Grade Road Moon Township, PA 15108-2944 Call 800-759-7474 or visit our website at www.centria.com

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