NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) Reynobond® composite materials played a prominent role in three award-winning projects in the 2012 Metal Architecture magazine Metal Building Design Awards, a tour-de-force of metal composite materials that has been sculpted to create stunning architectural designs. The three winning projects are: Grand Prize Winner/Smooth Metal Panels - Chihuahua’s Businessmen Foundation (FECHAC) Regional Office in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Four, 40-foot high pillars on the primary façade are clad in tessellated Reynobond Aluminum Composite Material (ACM). With the mosaic-like pattern of the panels, the facade looks different throughout the day as daylight hits at different angles, intensity and color. Sustainable Design Winner - Student Center at Monterrey Technical University in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, uses Reynobond ACM panels to frame the cover of the entry plaza. Reynobond ACM, which contains a high percentage of recycled content, makes it ideal for projects such as this that are designed to LEED® green building principles.; and Judges Award - The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University. The building envelope contains both Alcoa's Reynobond zinc and aluminum composite material panels, which provide structure, texture and color that forces the eye to follow the lines across the building to a vanishing point. The projects were judged on their overall appearance, innovative use of metal and the significance of metal to achieve the project objectives. Metal must be the primary material used on the projects.
