Pekin Insurance New Corporate Headquarters

Pekin Insurance’s 50,000 sf headquarters addition was designed to support the company’s culture and brand, “Beyond the Expected”. The 90 year-old insurance company wanted to reimagine their corporate work environment by creating open workspace with collaborative support areas, numerous meeting rooms, coffee bars and daylit expanses that overlooked the new outdoor bridge and walking paths. The addition to the original 1960 and 1980 campus buildings gives employees a choice of where and how to work, offering more to recruitment and staff retention. This cultural shift drove many of the collaborative and connected spaces designed in the new addition. The new 2-story addition focuses out on the multi-acre wooded campus to the east. Program spaces include private offices, open workspace and a large training center with a glass “living room” that overlooks the expansive outdoor lawn and wooded backdrop. A new state-of-the-art kitchen/dining facility occupy the main level at the connecting concourse atrium. Rotating and micro-concept food offerings address the culturally diverse workforce. A grand stair to the upper training space starts in the lower lobby and traverses along the two-story glass atrium which looks out on the outdoor grass expanse. The pavilion is designed to host all-staff meetings on the lawn and a 2-story exterior wall that can be used as a projection surface for presentations or corporate gatherings.