Metal facades that change color with the sun, perforated metal, uniquely shaped panels—metal can seemingly do anything, and that’s part of why designers love it.
“It’s definitely one of the materials I’ll use in any project,” says Devin Norton, senior project designer for HOK based in San Francisco.
We talked to global design, architecture, engineering, and planning firm HOK as well as a leading manufacturer of metal panels Petersen (which makes the PAC-CLAD brand) about how they design with metal, its benefits, and how the material is changing.
