Stamford Cone

The Stamford Cone is a 14-metre-high (46 ft) stained glass pavilion,[1] commissioned as a site-specific artwork for the headquarters building of UBS AG and landmark feature for the city of Stamford, Connecticut. The structure, in the shape of a cone, was designed and fabricated by British artist Brian Clarke,[2] and is formed entirely of glass, combining 204 panels of laminated mouth-blown glass[3] with 16 fins of laminated, toughened glass, with steel ring beams and tension cables the only non-glass elements.[4] Completed in 1999 at a cost of over $1 million, the work was executed jointly by Clarke, architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and engineered by Goldreich Engineering and Dewhurst MacFarlane & Partners.[5][6] At the time of its completion, the artwork was the largest free-standing glass structure ever made.[7]

The Stamford Cone
Swiss Bank Cone
Interior view of the Stamford Cone
ArtistBrian Clarke
Year1999 (1999)
MediumStained glass
LocationStamford
Coordinates41.048°N 73.5426°W / 41.048; -73.5426
OwnerUBS AG
  • The Stamford Cone during fabrication

References
  1. "The Stamford Cone (Swiss Bank Cone)". Brian Clarke Studio. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  2. "The Stamford Cone". Fairlfield County Business Journal. 28 June 1999.
  3. Pietrzyk, Cindi (16 April 2013). "Stamford". Connecticut Off the Beaten Path (9 ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 102. ISBN 9780762793549.
  4. Brian Clarke; Norman Foster (1999). Frantz, Susan (ed.). Brian Clarke: Projects. New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery. ISBN 1-891475-13-4.
  5. "The Stamford Cone". Engineering Group Associates. Engineering Group Associates, PC.
  6. "Brian Clarke: The Stamford Cone". Franz Mayer of Munich: Architectural Glass and Mosaic. Mayer'sche Hofkunstanstalt GmbH. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  7. Trümpler, Stefan (1997). Brian Clarke Linda McCartney Collaborations. Romont: Musée Suisse du Vitrail. ISBN 3-7165-1086-6.
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