The Pyramids (building complex)
The Pyramids (formerly: College Life Insurance Company of America Headquarters ) is an office complex in the US city of Indianapolis that was completed in 1972. It consists of three pyramid-shaped buildings.
The building complex is located in northwest Indianapolis on DePauw Boulevard near the Interstate Highway . It's part of a loose, larger complex called College Park . The three buildings are located on a meadow in front of a lake and are largely surrounded by parking lots on the land side in the immediate vicinity.
The Pyramids was designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates , Hamden , Connecticut, and built as the headquarters of the College Life Insurance Company of America . To ensure enough space to store insurance files, the original plan included nine buildings. Advances in computer technology made six of them unnecessary. The premises are now occupied by various companies.
The complex consists of three four-sided truncated pyramids that have sloping glass fronts on the south and east sides and vertical concrete walls on the north and west sides. They are 47.85 meters high and extend over eleven floors. They are connected to one another via elevated and underground passages. The individual buildings are called Pyramid I , Pyramid II and Pyramid III .
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- Linda B. Weintraut: The Pyramids . In: David J. Bodenhamer, Robert Graham Barrows (Eds.): The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Indiana University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-253-31222-1
- The Pyramids website , accessed May 24, 2010
- Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates website , accessed May 24, 2010
- Emporis : The Pyramids , accessed May 24, 2010
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Coordinates: 39 ° 55 '12.6 " N , 86 ° 13' 14.9" W.