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In the following article, architectural historian Bruce Clouette argues that the Wilde building is a classic worth saving. The National Trust for Historic Preservation agrees. David P. He argued for its adaptive reuse, even while acknowledging that much of what made the interiors remarkable had been lost as the spaces have been modified over time. Renowned modernist architect Walter Gropius chaired the committee.
Its completion was greeted by articles in the professional journals of architecture and other design specialties, in business magazines such as Fortune and Business Week , and in popular news magazines. Commentary appeared in Italian, French, and German journals. Contemporary opinion clearly nominated the Wilde Building for an immediate apotheosis to the Pantheon of Modernism. The building was an innovative, award-winning project that became widely known, and today it continues to be regarded as a milestone in the development of modern architecture.
Among the distinguishing characteristics of the type embodied in the Wilde Building are its rectilinear form, repetitive-module design,tinted glass walls, and renouncement of ornamental detail. Knoll custom designed interior decoration and chose the office furniture; many of her pieces have become classics in their own right. Benches, paths, pools, and plantings are sparingly arranged in curving geometric forms.
Noguchi also designed a sculpture group sited north of the circulating drive. Three pink geometric forms are said to represent father, mother and child. Wilde Building, November The building is a pioneer of the suburban office. Usually thought in terms of residential change, suburbanization, one of the great transformations of American life, also involved the dispersion of industry, offices, and commercial outlets. Frazar B. Steel framing, glass walls, and repetitive modular exteriors became hallmarks of the style, as did rectilinear massing and the use of cantilevers.
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Consider this: The building is hopelessly out of date, with thousands of square feet of precious space wasted. Space costs, measured in cents per square foot back in the s, are now several orders of magnitude beyond that. I estimate that a significant portion of the building consists of unusable courtyards that haven't been entered by a nonmaintenance human being in 25 years.
The building's subfloors are so choked with useless wiring that the sole redeeming quality of its tinkertoy interior -- its flexibility -- is critically compromised. The climate-control system, no doubt a wonder in its day, seems to have four settings: heat on, heat off, air on and air off.
I can recall days in summers past during which I could walk though the Wilde and see women seated at desks by the sealed windows, cloaked in afghans from head to toe with only their hands poking out to their keyboards. Our salespeople never bring anyone to the Wilde Building. No one in his right mind would. If you look up at the oh-so-attractive pale yellow girders bleeding orange trickles of rust, you can still see garbage cans placed here and there by the maintenance department to catch spring runoff through one of the numerous leaks in its elegant, corrugated metal ceiling.
The Wilde Building also has cavernous ceilings, 15 feet of empty, expensive-to-heat-and-cool dead air that creates an interesting Corning Ware effect in the summer, achieved, I assume, by the clever use of all that exterior glass.
The building's escalators, moreover, apparently are forbidden by a higher power to ever work simultaneously for two months in a row. And so it is that CIGNA insurance and the town of Bloomfield enter the final phase of shrugging off the selfish, weird, obstructionist architectural hobbyists who want to look a gift horse in the mouth -- and then shoot it.
Letters of intent between CIGNA and residential developers are flying in and out the door; golf-course designers have already been on the phone; ordinary people have been calling the insurer, asking when the housing is going to be ready for occupancy.
CIGNA has jumped through its zoning and environmental hoops, all is well, and the General Assembly gave the corporation a little gift: some legislative protection against frivolous lawsuits attempting to muck up the works. CIGNA has inoculated itself against the theft of its property rights by refusing to play with the federal historic preservation police.
The company has not participated in the historic-preservation tax scam that subsidizes folks to preserve old pieces of junk -- and CIGNA has refused as is its right to seek official registry of its office building joke as a historic shrine.
Theoretically, the Wilde building could survive if a developer or corporation came running in, begging to use the office building as an office building. Fat chance, real estate professionals tell me. Whatever its charms as an architectural oddity, the building is an inefficient joke as a modern office building -- and the Bloomfield site has mediocre highway access.
Ironically, perhaps the only chance to save the Wilde would come if the new CIGNA development were a raging success, adding to the allure of the site and compensating for the dysfunctional building.
The contentious effort to save the Wilde building is the kind of effete snobbery that gives real historic preservation a bad name -- and paints the state and the region as the last place on Earth any sane business would attempt to conduct its affairs.
As year-old state Rep. John D.
Solutions, which was a longtime vendor to Express Scripts. Solutions recently leased 24, square feet of office space at City Place I as part of a major expansion plan in the city, where it plans to hire hundreds of people.
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The company has not participated in the historic-preservation tax scam that subsidizes folks to preserve old pieces of junk -- and CIGNA has refused as is its right to seek official registry of its office building joke as a historic shrine. Theoretically, the Wilde building could survive if a developer or corporation came running in, begging to use the office building as an office building. Fat chance, real estate professionals tell me.
Whatever its charms as an architectural oddity, the building is an inefficient joke as a modern office building -- and the Bloomfield site has mediocre highway access. Ironically, perhaps the only chance to save the Wilde would come if the new CIGNA development were a raging success, adding to the allure of the site and compensating for the dysfunctional building.
The contentious effort to save the Wilde building is the kind of effete snobbery that gives real historic preservation a bad name -- and paints the state and the region as the last place on Earth any sane business would attempt to conduct its affairs. As year-old state Rep.
John D. We mere mortals can be thankful for our tradition of private property rights -- and the common sense that knows the difference between progress and mothball preservation. Laurence D. Cohen is a senior fellow at the Yankee Institute for Public Policy in Hartford and a public relations consultant.
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