Nationwide Insurance

1100 Locust Street

Completed in 2002

Designed by Kansas City firm, Heinlein Schrock Stearns

Facade made of Kosota Limestone, quarried in Minnesota (also used on Vets auditorium)

Took 18 months to build

Building consists of seven floors and a partial basement

Built to office 2,175 employees, 476,500 total square feet

341 tons of reinforcing steel in the foundation

3,050 tons of steel in the entire structure

Large corporations desire new buildings (in lieu of existing/old) due to structural bay spacing constraints of older buildings, which did not allow the flexibility and openness required by today’s open offices.

An example of suburban campus planning (similar to Meredith Building)

Additions to Campus 2007-2008

CDFM2 Architecture Inc. & Heinlein Schrock Stearns (merged in 2004 to form 360 Architecture)

360 Architecture designed the west office addition, Office building, operation center, parking ramp and skywalks.