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Wisconsin Interior Architectural Photography – Sentry Insurance

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Our next blog post features photos from a MILLER + MILLER Architectural Photography Wisconsin interior architectural photography project shoot for Flad Architects – Sentry Insurance Corporate Headquarters Lobby Renovation. Our second corporate headquarters refresh. See both of the lobby interior renovation shoots by our client and friends at Flad Architects. Flad Architects is located in Madison and booked us for this cost shared architectural photographer shoot which took place at the Sentry Insurance Headquarters building in Stevens Point, Wisconsin located on the SentryWorld Campus.

A few of our interior photography objectives for the Wisconsin architect’s photo shoot was to capture photos of the renovation’s architectural details, new room layout designs, and the stunning custom lighting’s essence by highlighting the luminous centerpiece — a radiant chandelier. The lobby’s large lighting masterpiece installation captivated everyone the moment they entered the corporate building on our shoot day.

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The Sentry Insurance Headquarter’s office lobby features the stunning, custom Yellow Goat Design acrylic blue, Floe chandelier centerpiece light. The light design & installation was a custom collaboration between Flad Architects and YGD to create an iconic light installation that reflects the insurance company’s brand colors featuring blue acrylic slices suspended to form a three-dimensional shape interpretation of Sentry’s corporate logo. The LED bi-pins lights added sparkle and glow to the hanging acrylic panels and lobby room. According to Yellow Goat Design, the company says the light “successfully represents a feeling of warmth for all that walk through the doors – inspiring trust, inspiration, conversation and vibrancy.”

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Wisconsin’s Sentry Insurance corporate headquarters transformative interior renovation by Flad Architect provides for elevating collaboration spaces and redefining the modern workplace environment. The refreshed office’s interior photography shoot captured photos of the headquarters’ revitalized lobby, newly designed meeting rooms, and dynamic collaborative areas. Flad’s architectural details inside the Wisconsin corporate office headquarters renovation introduced elegant terrazzo flooring, vertical walnut wood divider screens, and full-height, frameless glass wall systems. The architect’s design updates were complemented by cutting-edge technology upgrades to support a contemporary, and connected modern workspace environment.

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The corporate headquarters office’s revitalization photographs shoot included both on the ground and photographing aerial drone photography exterior building images. As an exterior architectural photographer, with the option for requesting drone aerial images, the ability to photograph the entrance canopy connecting the parking garage to the building, and the landscape architecture improvements on the terrace completed by Flad Architect’s landscape experts, allowed for a variety of both ground eye-level and drone elevations.

We captured a variety of portfolio imagery angles showcasing the architect’s enhancements to the inner courtyards and multi-tiered terrace below. Building design improvements by the architect and photographs included photography of the building’s new exterior glass curtain wall facade and a reimagined landscape architect design on the terrace featuring pergolas, new pavers, stylish lounge seating, and uplighting—creating a serene garden retreat for employees, customers, and visitors to enjoy. Our last photograph of the shoot was featuring the light installation, glowing through the lobby’s glass at night after dark.

The iconic, award-winning original Sentry Insurance Campus facility building, located in central Wisconsin, was originally designed by Flad in the late 1970s, and was a progressive work of architecture for its time. The described by many as sci-fi looking stone building has a figure 8 design, and centrally located 6-story atrium, allowing for natural light inside, and is raised above multiple levels of parking providing for an open, interior lush courtyard, plus beautiful surrounding views being perched high with viewing vantage points across small-town Wisconsin. Continuing to work with Flad today approximately 25 years later, Flad and Sentry have been enhancing and modernizing their corporate building facilities with construction completion across multiple buildings in Wisconsin, Stevens Point, and Goldsboro, North Carolina.

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MILLER + MILLER is a husband-wife team of photographers who travels the US for client’s nationwide photography project needs. We easily travel north for shoots throughout Wisconsin, or to Milwaukee and Madison booking architectural photography shoots frequently due to the short drive being a few hours from our Chicago-based architectural photography business headquarters. View additional past Madison & Wisconsin Commercial Architectural & Interior Photographer featured images and photography shoots.

Sentry Insurance Headquarters Office Refresh Stevens Point Wisconsin Photography Project Participants:
Architect: Flad Architects Wisconsin Madison
Construction Contractors: CG Schmidt Construction Madison, Milwaukee, and Arizona
Architectural Lighting Design: Pivotal Lighting Design of AEI Affiliated Engineers
Architectural Lighting Design & Manufacturer (Lobby): Yellow Goat Design

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Navy Pier Wave Wall’s Urban Design & Structures Photography

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MILLER+MILLER Architectural Photography photographs the Navy Pier Wave Wall and Urban Design & Structures Photography showcasing the urban design materials, systems infrastructure and architecture design of the recently redesigned, downtown Chicago popular tourist attraction. Our photography focused on capturing the Navy Pier wave stair wall’s modern design which utilizes our client’s application of commercial and industrial paint coatings finishes.

Navy Pier’s dynamic lakefront location has been a part of Chicago’s history since 1916. As Chicago urban design and architectural photographers, we appreciate the benefit of often learning early about finishing of construction, photographing just built skyscrapers, buildings, new construction, and unique architect projects annually; such as quoting photos of Chicago’s newest Navy Pier “Wave Stair Wall” right after completion.

Our client’s marketing contact inquired to us about her company’s infrastructure construction marketing portfolio photo needs and photography the company’s latest urban design architectural project at Chicago Navy Pier. Looking for Chicago photographer to photograph several angles and appearances of the Urban Design & Structures featuring the company’s architectural and industrial coatings for the wood & steel architectural materials around the finished site. The architect designed and client’s finishing coatings are visible within the wave stair wall, railings and benches around the staircase of the pier, providing a premier coating for high performance architectural and industrial applications using a Fluoronar finish. Photography included a variety of angles and detailed pictures of the sites that utilized architectural steel and metal primer and topcoat final coatings. A few wide shots included the skyline to the west, with Loews Hotel Tower, Trump, 474 North Lake Shore Drive, & Lake Point Tower skyscrapers visible in the background of the pier images.

The Navy Pier pierscape renovation is a small part of the plan for Chicago’s historic Navy Pier redesign called The Centennial Vision. Navy Pier celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2016. The first of multiple phases of construction design at Navy Pier included architect and construction company’s development of new architectural structures – Wave Wall, Info Tower, Lake Pavilions, and Kiosks Kiosks with stainless steel canopies and a towering glass and chrome sculpture are among the recent enhancements made now spanning the newly redesigned pierscape in Chicago on the Navy Pier’s South Dock and the Polk Bros. Fountain. The pierscape urban architecture and landscape design project was led by New York based James Corner Field Operations team in the design of the contemporary “pierscape” that will renew the popular destination’s experience and connection to the water. “Re-imagined as a green spine that extends from Lake Michigan back into the city, the Pier’s South Dock anchors a series of thematic rooms filled with engaging social spaces, contemporary architecture, stunning water features, atmospheric lighting, amusements, and seasonal plantings. The new South Dock and adjoining Polk Brothers Park, as well as the upcoming East End Park, Crystal Garden and other public spaces, will make Navy Pier not only a world-class icon, but also a center of activity and culture that is reflective of an authentic, contemporary Chicago identity.”

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The Chicago’s Navy Pier is Illinois’ most popular tourist attraction. The pierscape’s redesign connects the vibrant social and recreational space redesigned to help connect the pier back to the city. Field Operations plans for the architecture of Pierscape to be organized into two categories and scales: large singular structures that merge buildings with landscape and smaller objects that punctuate the pier and frame new views towards Lake Michigan. As the architects on the team, nARCHITECTS collaborated on the overall plan and designed structures that enhance Chicagoans’ connection to the lake by framing, integrating or reflecting the natural environment.

As the centerpiece of the South Dock Promenade, the Wave Wall is a louvered façade that morphs into a grand stair, inspired by the Spanish Steps in Rome at Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti. It connects the South Dock to an upper level amusement park in one continuous and dramatic social space with south facing views of Lake Michigan. As the steps rise and transition into louvers, they reveal access to 30,000 square feet of retail spaces below. The Wave Wall Staircase steps serve not only as a traditional staircase purpose leading upwards from the lakefront up to the Centennial Wheel Navy Pier Chicago, but also dual use as seating for the throughout the Summer, twice a week Navy Pier Firework’s show where many onlookers sit to watch fireworks lighting the sky over Lake Michigan.

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Location: Chicago, IL
Construction of 3,000 ft-long pier redesign and The South Dock and Polk Plaza Navy Pier Project was completed in 2016.

1st Prize, International Competition, with James Corner Field Operations, Team Leader.
Awards: 1st Prize, International Competition; Architizer A+ Awards, Finalist, Mixed-Use Commercial.
Architizer A+ Awards, 2017 Finalist, Architecture + Sustainability: Navy Pier South Dock and Polk Bros. Fountain.
ASLA-NY Honor 2017 Award: Navy Pier South Dock and Polk Bros. Plaza.
Chicago Design Awards, 2017 Gold Winner, Architecture Mixed-Use: Navy Pier.
Offshore – Rooftop Bar at Navy Pier is a 2019 ALA Merit Winner.
2019 Merit Award for Navy Pier from PA-DE ASLA Chapter.
Navy Pier Phase 1 opened in May 2016 and is the first project to achieve Gold certification under the Sustainable SITES Initiative (SITES) v2 rating system.

Chicago Navy Pier Wave Wall Project Collaborators:
Design Architect and Architect of Record for the Wave Wall, Kiosks, Pavilions, and Info Tower by nARCHITECTS.
Interior Architecture for Wave Wall by Gensler Architects.
Project Lead, Prime and Lead Landscape Architect, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design by James Corner Field Operations.
Local Architectural Consultant: Epstein Global.
Structural Engineering: Buro Happold.
MEP & Civil Engineering: Primera Engineering.
Soils and Irrigation: Jeffrey Bruce and Company.
Local Landscape Architect: Terry Guen Design Associates.
Water Feature Design: Fluidity Design Consultants.
Green Wall and Botanical Specialist: Patrick Blanc.
Grass Specialist: John Greenlee & Associates.
Event Planning: Chris Wangro.
Envelope Consultant: Simpson Gumpertz Heger.
Architectural Commercial and Industrial Painting Coatings & Finishing: Tnemec
Lighting Design: L’Observatoire International.
Graphic Design, Signage and Wayfinding: Pentagram.
Industrial Design: Billings Jackson Design.
Traffic Engineering: Kimley-Horn.
Sustainability Consulting: RE:Vision.
Collaborators Phase 2: Architect of Record: Gensler.  Structural: Thornton Tomasetti. MEP Engineering: ESD Global, Code: d’Escoto, Inc.

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