Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. recently unveiled the design for the new $450 million, 32-story, 1.1-million-square-foot office tower that it plans to build at its downtown Milwaukee corporate headquarters campus.
The building design features curved glass panels arcing southeast toward Lake Michigan. An adjoining three-story space, known as Northwestern Mutual Commons, will feature a visitors’ center, café and outdoor dining. Public access will be available from Wisconsin Avenue and Mason Street to the Commons. An adjacent green space of almost three acres of gardens, trees, a water feature, tables, benches and walkways, called Northwestern Mutual Gardens, will be open to the public. The new building is being designed by New Haven, Conn.-based Pickard Chilton, which is the design architect for the project. Houston-based Kendall/Heaton Associates is the architect of record for the project.
