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Progressive Insurance

“Buildings matter. They serve our greater purpose in business and in life. They are the platforms on which we build our dreams and celebrate the joy of life. Bialosky understands this at the level of their own core values for their clients and for their communities.”

Peter B. Lewis , Past CEO, Chairman, Progressive Insurance
—Always By Design

“Buildings matter. They serve our greater purpose in business and in life. They are the platforms on which we build our dreams and celebrate the joy of life. Bialosky understands this at the level of their own core values for their clients and for their communities.”

Peter B. Lewis , Past CEO, Chairman, Progressive Insurance
—Always By Design

“Buildings matter. They serve our greater purpose in business and in life. They are the platforms on which we build our dreams and celebrate the joy of life. Bialosky understands this at the level of their own core values for their clients and for their communities.”

Peter B. Lewis , Past CEO, Chairman, Progressive Insurance
—Always By Design

Bialosky was first engaged by Progressive Insurance in 1972 to design a new headquarters building. Since then we have designed two major campuses and dozens of other offices totaling over 2 million square feet of facilities.

We designed Campus I in 1994, where we set the design criteria that defined the architectural brand and shaped the company culture of Progressive Insurance. Ultimately, this and future campuses looked to physically embody the corporate values of integrity, respect, and excellence through architecture. Buildings sought to be artworks that elevated the employee experience. Jewel-tone glass, steel, and white masonry set a sanctioned material palette for buildings nationwide and is still used to this day. Glass and steel signal social spaces, while masonry encloses spaces that are settled and stationary (offices).

The corporation’s core value of an egalitarian approach to problem-solving manifests poetically throughout the spaces in the corporate campuses. These are spaces where Progressive’s corporate collection of art can sing; the buildings are made to receive art and allow it to step forward to become a way finding system, by breaking the large campuses down into a series of smaller villages, with each one identified by its own commissioned artwork.