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METAL CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION HONORS DRIVERS CLUB IN REDMOND, WA

The Metal Construction Association (MCA) awarded its Chairman’s Award in the institutional category to three member companies that contributed to the creation of the Drivers Club in Redmond, Washington. Winners were announced February 3, 2021, at MCA’s Winter Meeting

By: Jennifer Smith

 

Metal Construction Association Honors Drivers Club in Redmond, WA

 

CHICAGO, IL – February 2021 – The Metal Construction Association (MCA) awarded its Chairman’s Award in the institutional category to three member companies that contributed to the creation of the Drivers Club in Redmond, Washington. Winners were announced February 3, 2021, at MCA’s Winter Meeting.

The annual Chairman’s Awards showcase the use of metal in exceptional buildings. Winning projects must have involved MCA member companies or their products. Awards are presented in eight categories: Overall Excellence; Commercial; Metal Roofing; Education (Primary & Secondary); Education (Colleges & Universities); Institutional; Municipal; and Residential.

Projects were submitted for consideration to the Chairman’s Awards and Metal Architecture magazine’s annual Design Awards Program. Recipients were chosen by a panel of distinguished architects—Christina Bazelmans of Lamoureux Pagano Associates, Steven G. Blye of Legat Associates, and Yen Ong of 5G Studio Collaborative— based on overall appearance, significance of metal in the project, innovative use of metal, and the role of metal in achieving project objectives.

Drivers Club is a community of people who share a passion for high-performance cars. The facility needed to be a secure place for rare and exotic vehicles but also open and inviting for everything from informal gatherings to special events.

The design solution employs irregular, graphic patterning intended to evoke the experience of speeding past a fence or a guardrail. This design motif is most obvious at the large scale, with overlay panels on the building’s metal skin, and continues through bands of mass-planting in the landscaping and human-scale elements such as walkway bollards and Corten steel pickets in the pedestrian zone.

“This facility is elegantly detailed. I really like the rhythm of the room as well as the interaction between cool metal and warm wood,” Bazelmans said.

Presented with the Chairman’s Award were MCA member companies Kingspan, Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp, and Sherwin-Williams. The pre-engineered buildings were clad in a combination of insulated metal panels from Kingspan and single-skin metal panels from Metal Sales Manufacturing Corporation. The insulated Kingspan panels are the primary building envelope material. Kingspan used their own sealant and paint from Sherwin-Williams.

 

Winning Project: Drivers Club LLC, Redmond, WA

MCA Award Recipients: Kingspan, Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp., and Sherwin-Williams

Architect: TVA Architects, Inc., Portland, OR

Contractor: Synergy Construction, Inc., Redmond, WA

Mandatory Photo Credit: Christian Columbres Photography

 

About the Metal Construction Association

The Metal Construction Association brings together diverse companies that collaborate for the purpose of expanding the use of metal in construction. Our vision is to be recognized as the authoritative voice of the metal construction industry. Companies involved in MCA gain tremendous benefit from association activities that focus on research, codes and standards, market development, and technical programs. MCA’s market development efforts increase the use of metal in construction by educating the building and design communities about the benefits of the material. Learn more at MetalConstruction.org.

 

See the full list of award winners here:

https://www.metalconstruction.org/index.php/events/chairmans-awards-2021