Wanting to consolidate many departments currently spread throughout the Omaha Metro Area, Nebraska’s largest credit union chose Papillion, Nebraska to call their new home. It was important for this institution that their new corporate headquarters was an expression of appreciation and understanding that their member base is the key to their success.

Rooted in the rolling hills of the site, the building is grounded with a solid black brick base that houses the public functions of the facility: retail branch, community room and four-story vertical atrium and continuous stair. Resting on this base, corporate departments are housed in a unitized curtain wall system that opens to the community by cantilevering out toward a highly visible city intersection.

Interior materiality is simple and honest, featuring an exposed cast-in-place concrete core and naturally finished hardwoods. The atrium unitized curtain wall system is structurally supported by nine, 30-inch deep, 60-foot tall white oak glulam columns that are pin connected by knife plates on each end.

The linear building footprint runs east-west to take advantage of solar benefits. The project implements several eco-friendly design approaches including a geo-thermal well system, radiant heating, chilled beam radiant cooling, daylighting controls and 100 percent LED site lighting.