Northgate Plaza, a new office building opened in February 2020 in the fast-growing Pinnacle Hills neighborhood of Rogers, Ark., was envisioned as a new standard for occupant-focused office space in this premiere business and entertainment district. Northgate Plaza features modern architectural design, unique building materials and amenities that produce quality experiences not previously available in the area.
For showcasing how metal panels can be leveraged in a transformative retrofit project, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 134 headquarters building in Chicago won the 2019 Metal Architecture Design Award for renovations and retrofits. Metal wall panels were used in the adaptive reuse project to give the building a new identity, express its use and the importance of some spaces. The retrofit completely transformed a 1960s elementary school building into a labor organization’s modern headquarters, which includes a lobby, large meeting hall, offices, meeting rooms, lounges and gymnasium community center.
Goldhauben-Webe is an independent family business with 100 years in the textile market. The Linz, Austria-based company recently underwent an architectural expansion which was completed by the same architecture firm who built the company’s headquarters 30 years ago. Architekturbüro|Klinglmüller ZT GmbH, also of Linz, revitalized the building by providing an extension that spoke to the company’s innovative future.
The Leltex House in Manchester is home to Hartbrights Sign Solutions/Architectural Cladding Systems in the UK. The team specializes in a variety of signage and printing capacities but has recently branched into the architectural cladding market. To showcase their rainscreen cladding system they chose a modern redesign of their own office complex that serves a duel purpose of providing the company an updated facility and also showcases to potential clients their cladding capabilities.
The developers at Alexandria Real Estate Equities spearheaded the headquarters for Juno Therapeutics at 400 Dexter in South Lake Union in Seattle. The captivating exterior features a combination of glass, aluminum composite and pre-patinated copper. Designed by architects CollinsWoerman, the building sits on the site of three demolished one-story facades to make way for the 12-story office structure.
The award-winning Harwyn office pods have taken the design world by storm offering beautifully designed prefabricated modular spaces. The small team at Harwyn is dedicated to innovative design working with the “100 to 1 concept ratio” which, as the designers explain, “…for every 100 great ideas we put to paper, one will emerge as exceptional to make its way from sketchpad to design.”