1986 12-story geometry fantasy in Connecticut.

The openness of the parking lot makes the building easy to see.

 

I can think of a couple of quiet kids in a technical drawing class in a smalltown high school in central Appalachia in the early 1990s who would have loved to have taken a field trip to see this. Connecticut was too far away!

 

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In downtown Hartford, Connecticut, on September 23rd, 2021, "Metro Center I" (built 1986) at the northeast corner of Church Street and High Street, as viewed from the north side of Allyn Street, east of High Street.

 

CohnReznick sign up there.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Buildings—Connecticut (sh92001808)

• Geometry in architecture (sh00000156)

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