West Elevation at midday. The window proportion of the red brick buildings is consistent with the Building One.

Below grade atrium illuminates the building form from below. The building form emerges from the earth.

Atrium view looking south with sculptural exhaust shroud.

Linear lighting in atrium

Linear lighting in atrium.

Main building lobby with white marble reception desk, slate floors, and gray linear river rock walls.

Main conference room on atrium level.

Gallery space on atrium level looking west at stone wall.

Fifth floor reception looking west.

Laminated glass detail between reception area and executive office. Clerestory window is exposed.

Executive office looking north with clerestory window and laminated glass door.

Executive office view with exposed structure expression, suspended lights, and glass slits allowing light into corridor.

Executive office on southwest corner. Note structural expression, clerestory glass and suspended lights.

Corner executive office with clerestory glass.

Campus Context:

As the Chesapeake Campus has developed, we created the concept of jewels.  These are unique works of architecture that complement the red brick buildings and add energy to the campus plan.

All the buildings find inspiration from beautiful scale and proportion.

They fit together and the spaces between buildings are as important as the structures themselves.

The bay windows that act as lanterns of energy.

Architectural Concept for Chesapeake Building One:

A 21st century solution…

Beautiful scale and proportion.

The lantern is a rooftop edge.

The open perimeter atrium also allows light into the lower level.

The question is “How can you make natural gas visible?”

My goal is to create a sense that you are surrounded by CH4 in an almost vaporous condition…

Imagine living with the molecule…

MCF (million cubic feet) as in a measure of natural gas volume.

The building form emerges from the earth below the surface.  This detail represents the idea of exploration.

The exposed stone wall in atrium reinforces the connection to geology.

Year 2014

Work started in 2012

Work finished in 2014

Client Chesapeake Energy Corporation

Contractor Smith & Pickel Construction Co.

Status Completed works

Type Corporate Headquarters