This past weekend DWL Architects participated in this year’s Phoenix Canstruction with a Pokémon GO themed structure! You can vote for this structure under the People’s Choice category at the link below! Voting ends Wednesday! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WQQPX9D

And thank you to our team and sponsors who made this possible.

2019 Phoenix Canstruction Team:

DWL Architects + Planners, Inc.
Caruso Turley Scott Inc. Structural Engineers
Sundt Construction, Inc. 
Jensen Hughes
Coreslab Structures

Sponsors:

Sundt Construction
Caruso Turley Scott
Arcadia, Inc.
Premier Engineering Corp.
Hunt/Austin Aviation Builders
LSW Engineers
Western States Fire Protection Co.
Republic Bank of Arizona
James Cooke & Hobson
Fry’s Food Stores 
Gannett Fleming
PRI Graphics

Canstruction® is an international competition and exhibition of creatively designed structures built entirely of canned food. After the event, all food is donated to support St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance.

DWL attended this year’s 7th annual Run The Runway located at our recently completed project–Scottsdale Airport. Many members of our team, along with their families ran and walked directly on the airfield runway in the 10k-5k-kid dash to support Playworks Arizona and Scottsdale Airport.

All race proceeds benefited Playworks Arizona a nonprofit organization encouraging kids to stay active and build valuable life skills through play.

The Scottsdale Airport Redevelopment project was designed by DWL with Mead & Hunt and JE Dunn Construction. The project includes a new 23, 800 SF Aviation Business Center with restaurant and bar, multi-use conference space and two 30,000 SF Executive Hangars. The project is built to LEED Gold standards and is pending certification.

The Metal Construction Association (MCA) recognized its 2014 Chairman’s Award recipients at the METALCON Tradeshow and Conference at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver on October 1. Award recipients were determined based on overall appearance, significance of metal in the project, innovative use of metal, and the role of metal in achieving project objectives. DWL’s North Scottsdale Park and Ride project won the Metal Roofing category.

In June 2014, the North Scottsdale Park and Ride project received the magazine’s Judges Award for the passenger platform’s metal roofing. The canopy is clad in 12,000 square feet of custom-fabricated metal panels coated with PPG Duranar VARI-Cool IR reflective coating. The judges loved the dynamic wing-shaped canopy and how the metal panels gave the architectural element texture and depth. In many ways, the passenger platform reads more sculptural than architectural.

Read full article: On Metal Wings
source: Paul Deffenbaugh. “On Metal Wings” Metal Magazine: Pages 36-37 July 25, 2014. Print & Online.