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Credit union building stands out from the big boxes

Aug. 11, 2010

After TRi Architects of St. Louis was selected to design the First Community Credit Union in Chesterfield, Mo., the firm faced a big design hurdle. The building owner wanted a distinctive design for the area's largest credit union, but the Chesterfield Commons development required that all buildings meet master-planned standards.

Surrounded mostly by big-box retailers, the three-story office created by the design team is 70% glass and features a two-story atrium with curtain wall covering much of the front and back of the building.

To engineer and manufacture the curved-radius, sloped curtain wall system for the facility, local design-builder Brinkman Contractors and glazing contractor St. Charles Glass, Wentzville, Mo., specified CW-400, CW-600, ICW-250, and ZG-2000 curtain wall systems from Vistawall for the project. The Building Team also used a Vistawall FG-3000 storefront system for the entrance.

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