Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Building
- Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Building
The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Building, locally called the "Boat Building", is a notable modernist office building located on Constitution Plaza in Hartford. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the world's first two-sided building.
The building was designed by architect Max Abramovitz of Harrison & Abramovitz, who also played a role in designing the United Nations Headquarters and Lincoln Center in New York City. The contractor was George A. Fuller Company. Groundbreaking was in 1961, with construction complete in November 1963.
The 13-story tower has only two curved sides, in an unusual and striking shape variously termed an elliptic lenticular cylinder or lenticular hyperboloid. Its height is 212 feet (65 meters); it measures 225 feet on its long axis, and 87 feet wide at its maximum width. The ends point east and west, with sides facing north and south.
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* [https://www.phoenixwm.phl.com/public/about/history/boat.jsp Phoenix description]
* [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=phoenixmutuallifeinsurancebuilding-hartford-ct-usa Emporis entry]
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