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Encore Urban Living
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Encore Urban Living
May 12, 2020 at 4:37 pm 0

Stealing the Spotlight 

Touted by Cincinnati Refined as “…a colossal color-changing chameleon on the east side of downtown” and “…the city’s only color-changing skyscraper,” Encore Urban Living commanded attention and reshaped Cincinnati’s skyline the moment it was completed. The building’s defining architectural characteristic: Concept Series with Kolorshift, courtesy of CENTRIA.

Center City Living at its Finest 

Encore Urban Living is a $52-million, 17-story mixed-used development at the corner of 8th and Sycamore streets in Cincinnati.

The building includes 133 luxury apartments and amenities such as a pool, a sundeck, an exercise room and a grand lobby. The high-rise building also boasts a 500-space parking garage, two restaurants and a fitness studio.

Residents are within walking distance of the Red Bike Station, the Connector Streetcar Station, the city’s central business district and many other key locations.

Attention Please

Architects and planners were focused on making a statement when designing what would become Encore Urban Living. They wanted to erect a modern, dynamic structure that would clearly distinguish itself amongst other buildings on the street, and that meant making the optimal choice for the building’s exterior.                                                               

The solution: CENTRIA’s Concept Series CS-260 Horizontal metal panels in Dusty Rose with a Smooth finish and Kolorshift coating. Crews installed 50,000 feet of the CENTRIA panels as the external cladding.

 

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CENTRIA Products Add Modernity and Sharpness to Pointe at Polaris Community
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CENTRIA Products Add Modernity and Sharpness to Pointe at Polaris Community
December 16, 2019 at 8:00 am 0

Along the Polaris Highway in Columbus, OH, sits the Pointe at Polaris — a vibrant, modern, mixed-use community. It features inviting green spaces, entertainment, shopping, and places to live, all in a 20-acre tract of land. CENTRIA panels were used across the structure as part of Phase I of the project. This was comprised of a three-story, 106,000 square-foot office/retail/restaurant building; a four-story, 569 space parking garage, and a four-story, 216 unit apartment building, all of which opened in 2018. Phase II, not yet complete, will include another office building, a parking garage, an equivalent apartment building, and a hotel.

“We specified the metal panels for use on the exterior of our buildings to give them a modern feel, and we chose CENTRIA because the panels were quick to install and presented the clean look we desired,” says Tom Linzell, Senior Project Manager, M+A architects, the firm responsible for the design.

This highly collaborative project – a must due to its size and scope – featured CENTRIA products. Two different hues of the Intercept™ Entyre series were selected and specified – 15,000 square feet in total – in addition to CENTRIA MR3-36 Screen in one color for the building’s exterior.

“The overall structure was intended to have a contemporary look, which harkens back to mid-century modern design,” says Linzell. “The panels we chose match this aesthetic, and the wide range of colors was also highly appealing to our design team.”

Intercept is a modular metal wall panel system that allows for design versatility by incorporating different substrates, depths, slopes, curves and perforations into an easy-to-install rainscreen. The lightweight, back-ventilated system combines aesthetics with function, directing water away from your structure, without using sealants of any kind.

The system's modular design lends itself to installation in either vertical or horizontal applications. Intercept panels are available in the standard coil-coated aluminum substrate, as well as post-anodized aluminum, zinc, and other natural metals.

Phase I of Pointe at Polaris was completed in early 2019. M+A architects were responsible for design services, and the CENTRIA dealer was Hemm’s Glass Shops, Inc.

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CENTRIA® EcoScreen® Defines Garmin HQ Parking Garage
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CENTRIA® EcoScreen® Defines Garmin HQ Parking Garage
August 28, 2019 at 8:00 am 0

CENTRIA® EcoScreen® served as a key design element to the new, four-floor parking garage for the Garmin Headquarters located in Olanthe, KS. Approximately 25,000 square feet of product was specified and selected for the entire building exterior, fulfilling a key design objective while also providing a signature look.

“Design inspiration came, in part, through some of Garmin’s products; they have a clean appearance and are long-lasting,” says Dan Zeller, Principal, Gould Evans Associates, the architecture firm responsible for the design. “CENTRIA EcoScreen had the clean lines we sought. We also appreciated the depth of the flutes on the metal siding and the fact that it was a long-lasting material. It is a top-quality metal product.”

EcoScreen Perforated Screenwalls are created through a unique fabrication process that utilizes 20-gauge stainless steel and 0.040" [1mm] painted aluminum. The result is a 10% - 40% open area that provides an airy aesthetic and controls light and air movement, while elegantly blending industrial and other applications with their surroundings.

Across the 185,000 square-foot parking garage and addition, EcoScreen softens the building’s large scale and enables the delicate diffusion of light into the structure, creating the ideal blend of privacy and illumination.

“We wanted a material that wouldn’t rust over time, that would provide a sharp, clean appearance, and that also had deep shadow lines to break down the scale of the garage and provide some opacity for security purposes,” says Zeller.

The Garmin HQ parking garage provides an additional 964 spaces and was part of a $200 million overall campus redevelopment project. The structure itself was completed in April 2017, and the architect was Gould Evans Associates. The general contractor was McCown Gordon and the CENTRIA dealer was Mays-Maune-McWard, Inc.

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Pittsburgh Mixed-Use Building Enhanced with CENTRIA Formawall®
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Pittsburgh Mixed-Use Building Enhanced with CENTRIA Formawall®
August 6, 2019 at 8:00 am 0

CENTRIA® Formawall® enhances downtown Pittsburgh’s Tower 260 mixed use building by contributing to striking asymmetrical design elements. The approximately

430,000 square foot development reinvigorates the downtown area with its visually-compelling profile and its capacity for new business, entertainment, and residences.

“The site shape is a classic result of an era when buildings were demolished to be replaced by parking lots wedged among the surviving buildings,” says Arquitectonica, the architecture and design firm responsible for this project. “This building exemplifies urban regeneration.”

Approximately 54,000 square feet of Formawall High Performance Building Envelope System aided in the final design of Tower 260. The panels were specified with a smooth finish in Sundance™ Mica. This enabled the firm to achieve its multi-prism design vision across several volumes.

“CENTRIA Formawall was a good fit for this project – the panels’ modular nature helped significantly with lay-out and installation,” says Tom Haught, Vice President, A.C. Dellovade, the CENTRIA dealer and installer. “The panel lengths were manageable - 12’-14’ – which made it very easy to move the material around the site while allowing A.C. Dellovade to keep our manpower down to basically 2- or 3-man crews.”

CENTRIA Formawall systems are durable, aesthetically-unique, and contain no red-list ingredients. Formawall consolidates up to six components found in common wall assemblies into just one, and its distinct profiles deliver unlimited design combinations.

Tower 260 has seven floors of Class A office space, a 330-car parking garage, and is home to the Hilton Garden Inn Pittsburgh Downtown. Restaurants in the building include Revel + Roost, Pizzuvio, and Millie’s Homemade Ice Cream. The building is LEED® Certified™ Silver, and tenants include JLL, the anchor tenant, and Merrill-Lynch.

The firm responsible for the design was Arquitectonica, and the general contractor was Turner Construction. The CENTRIA dealer and installer was A.C. Dellovade Inc. The building was completed in 2016.

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