The expansion’s materiality integrates the new facility into its urban context through brick, limestone and green tinted glazing from the existing building, accented with patinated copper recalling the Statehouse dome, the Simon Headquarters building glazing and St. John’s Church spires.
To mark its place as an Indiana facility, the expansion is designed to recall the narrative story of the glacially altered northern Indiana landscape coupled with southern Indiana’s bluffs. As a meeting place for major conventions and trade shows in an urban environment, the building’s design captures the welcoming gesture of a handshake.
