While walking to an interview in Hartford this morning I passed numerous buildings with architectural merit. The one that truly stood out was the Phoenix Insurance Building for the simple fact that it looks strikingly similar to a boat. I later found out it is nicknamed the “boat building” when I questioned my interviewers about it. Not only do the massive walls of glass resemble a boat hull by reflecting its surroundings, I found many detail elements that relate to a boat as well. Where the building meets the ground, it cuts through a couple ledges almost like an icebreaker cuts through ice in the arctic. The building even has a deck on the second level with a handrail that looks exactly like a rail surrounding the bow of a ship. The third element, which stood out to me, were the support ribs on the roof of the deck that look as if they were taken directly from the deck supports of a ship. Now if I could only get to the inside I could figure out how the two corners where the walls meet are utilized in the program.
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