CORPORATE Headquarters Expansion

Pennsylvania

Completion: 2009
Area: 425,000 sf

FXFOWLE won an invited competition to design the building and interiors of a new environmentally responsible corporate headquarters building in suburban Philadelphia. The new, phased two building complex will be sited to integrate into the existing suburban office campus. To preserve views of the wooded site and compliment the existing structures, the expansion is designed as a series of volumes which nestle into the topography, curving organically along the grade. The open plan focuses office areas at the north side of the building, capitalizing on the views to the landscape, with service and fixed elements grouped together in nodes along an anchoring spine. A hallmark of the new design is the atrium, shaded by warmly-detailed brise soliel and enriched with a fieldstone wall at the base. Green roofs further weave the structure into the landscape and serve as part of a calibrated system of sustainable strategies, aiming for LEED Platinum rating by USGBC.