The Pyramids (Indianapolis)

The Pyramids (formerly College Life Insurance Company of America Headquarters) is an office complex in the U.S. city of Indianapolis, which was completed in 1972. It consists of three pyramidal buildings.

The building complex is located in the northwest of Indianapolis at DePauw Boulevard near the Interstate Highways. It is part of a loose, larger complex of College Park. The three buildings are located on a meadow in front of a lake and are largely surrounded on the land side in the immediate vicinity of parking spaces.

The Pyramids was the architectural firm Roche Dinkeloo & Associates of New Haven, Connecticut, designed and built as the headquarters of the College Life Insurance Company of America. To ensure adequate space for the storage of insurance records, nine buildings were envisaged in the original plan. Advances in computer technology made ​​six of them unnecessary. The premises are now occupied by different companies.

The complex consists of three four-sided blunt pyramids which have, on the south and east side of the sloping glass fronts and on the north and west side of vertical concrete walls. They are 47.85 meters high and extend over eleven floors. About elevated and lying in the underground passages are interconnected. The individual buildings are called Pyramid I, II Pyramid and Pyramid III.

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  • Linda B. Traut wine: The Pyramids. In: David J. Bodenhamer, Robert Graham Barrows (ed.): The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Indiana University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-253-31222-1
  • The Pyramids website, accessed 24 May 2010
  • Website Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, accessed 24 May 2010
  • Emporis: The Pyramids, accessed 24 May 2010
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