Union Carbide Corporate Center in Danbury
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- The Union Carbide Corporate Center, formerly known as the Union Carbide Corporate Center, is an architecturally unique building in Danbury, Connecticut. It has been Constructed in 1982 as the headquarters of the Union Carbide chemical company, it is known for its unusual style and floorplan layout. It has been recently renamed "The Matrix Corporate Center". (Text from Wikipedia)
Looks like a really nice place to work. Sadly in a few short years they would not need a HQ nearly that big. The stock price plummeted after Bhopal. GAF attempted a hostile take over. UCC sold of many divisions. Eveready and Energizer went to Ralston Purina. Automotive products were spun off as First Brands. Industrial gasses were spun off as Praxair. There were other divestitures. Then in 2001 whatever was left was absorbed by Dow.
This place is now 'The Summit at Danbury'. It seems to be filling up with lots of cool businesses, and there will be appartments soon.
Terrible shame if it's empty. A great place to work!
-D ick Willson
Great building. I used to work there many years ago.
This place was built for 190million, sold in 2002 for 72 million then again in 2016 for 18 million… a dinosaur, an infrastructure that no longer has a need…
Did I really just watch a 19 minute video about an office building?
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@@Heka41 r/EvilBuildings
this building actually blends into the landscape well for how massive it is. It must have been lavish working at a place like that. Today companies are trying to get people into "hot desks" where you dont even have a dedicated desk let alone your own office with furniture you can customize.
The background music could be sampled for some good lofi tunes
How much useful work actually happened at this place. They probably could of fired half the staff or more at this office building and not impacted production at all.
What is this building used for today since Dow now owns UCC?
i'm interested in doing a story about this for our online blogs-anybody interested in contributing memories, info? :)
This building was constructed to satisfy corporate excess like lots of things Union Carbide seemed to do. Build something supposedly state of the art and pour millions of dollars into it, then a few short years later it turns out to be out of date, a money loser and no longer suitable.
This place is empty now, corporate waste. Yea, great building, not.
Is it really? Wow. What a shame.
@@THECHEWBACCA41 It's actually being redeveloped now, they're spending $200 million to bring it up to date and are building 400 luxury apartments on one side of the complex and business offices on the other. The people who've taken it over have had many successful ventures in the past and it seems to be doing well! Here's some info about it: thesummitatdanbury.com/