Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Building, locally called the "Boat Building", is a notable modernist office building located on Constitution Plaza in Hartford. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the world's first two-sided building. It is home to The Phoenix Companies.The building was designed by architect Max Abramovitz of Harrison & Abramovitz. The contractor was George A. Fuller Company. Groundbreaking was in 1961, with construction complete in November 1963.The 13-story tower has only two curved sides, in an unusual and striking shape variously termed an elliptic lenticular cylinder or lenticular hyperboloid. Its height is 212 feet (65 meters); it measures 225 feet on its long axis, and 87 feet wide at its maximum width. The ends point east and west, with sides facing north and south.. }
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- Phoenix_Mutual_Life_Insurance_Building abstract "The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Building, locally called the "Boat Building", is a notable modernist office building located on Constitution Plaza in Hartford. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the world's first two-sided building. It is home to The Phoenix Companies.The building was designed by architect Max Abramovitz of Harrison & Abramovitz. The contractor was George A. Fuller Company. Groundbreaking was in 1961, with construction complete in November 1963.The 13-story tower has only two curved sides, in an unusual and striking shape variously termed an elliptic lenticular cylinder or lenticular hyperboloid. Its height is 212 feet (65 meters); it measures 225 feet on its long axis, and 87 feet wide at its maximum width. The ends point east and west, with sides facing north and south.".