Before its rebirth as a financial services company called Symmetry Partners, this 40,000-square-foot, windowless building in a Glastonbury, Connecticut, industrial park sat vacant for several years. It was originally a data center. “People called it ‘the bunker’,” says Michael Tyre, principal of Hartford -based Amenta Emma Architects, a firm charged with renovating the building into something surprising, edgy, and artful.
To get the biggest impact on a tight budget, Tyre determined that the main gesture would need to be added right at the curb. So the architects focused a chunk of their energy on selecting exterior cladding whose performance could equal its visual impact.
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