Zurich North America Headquarters, Schaumburg Office Building, American Architecture, Images
Zurich North America Headquarters in Schaumburg
Offices in Chicago, USA ? design by Goettsch Partners, Architects
Sep 29, 2016
Zurich North America Headquarters
Design:Goettsch Partners
Location: Schaumburg, Illinois, USA
Zurich North America Headquarters
Goettsch Partners Celebrates Opening of LEED Platinum-Certified

Architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) celebrated the opening today of the new North American headquarters for Swiss-based Zurich Insurance Group in Schaumburg, Illinois, marked by an official ribbon-cutting ceremony. The 783,800-square-foot building will be home to nearly 3,000 employees and contractors, and was designed with an emphasis on communication, collaboration and wellness.
GP designed the Zurich North America Headquarters to reflect the company?s global reach and world-class stature. The formal architectural resolution strives to represent both strength and stability, which are core values of the Zurich business model. Composed of three primary ?bars? that are offset and stacked, the arrangement creates unique spaces for collaboration, opens views of the surrounding landscape, optimizes solar orientation for amenities, and provides programmatic flexibility not found in typical center-core office buildings. The top ?bar? of the complex soars 11 stories and cantilevers toward downtown Chicago, providing visual identity along the interstate while projecting...