Manufacturing Industry
Headquarters turns floor plans outside in. (Aetna Life and Casualty)
Building Design & Construction, March, 1991 by Bordenaro, Michael
When Aetna Life & Casualty renovated its two headquarters buildings in Hartford, Conn., it changed them from an almost totally open office layout to a plan that added 400 enclosed offices for management level officers. Instead of locating these offices at the buildings' perimeters adjacent to windows, the company opted to place them near the cores.
Positioning the newly created offices in the core permits the majority of the interior to be illuminated from the buildings' windows, which range in height from 10 feet to 14 feet. The plan also helped to divide the previously vast 33,000-to 50,000-sq.-ft. floors into smaller-scaled departments.
Aetna's headquarters consists of the six-story, 1.4 million-sq.-ft. Colonial Building, built in 1929, and...
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