Nestled on an extraordinary campus in Malvern, Pa. (just 30 miles outside Philadelphia), Saint-Gobain and its subsidiary CertainTeed Corp. set out to build a sustainable headquarters that focuses on the company’s many divisions’ product lines.
Strewn across a 65-acre site that retrofitted two existing four-story buildings joined by a four-story connecting link, the modern work place houses the company’s several divisions and top brass. Philadelphia architect Vincent Kling designed the structure originally for National Liberty Life Insurance in the early 1960s. The site had been unoccupied since 2009 while development was still underway for Saint-Gobain’s ambitious project.