Art: BUILDING WITH A FUTURE

THIS week, in the midst of 280 landscaped acres of rolling Connecticut countryside five miles northwest of Hartford, the blare of bands and cheers of a crowd wall officially dedicate the new $19 million gleaming glass, aluminum and marble headquarters-in-the-country of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Already chosen by the American Institute of Architects as one of the "Ten Buildings in America's Future." it is not only a splendid example of the precisely machined modern elegance in which U.S. architects lead the world, but is likely to become the most honored building...

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