Stamford Cone
The Stamford Cone is a stained glass structural artwork, 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, and is formed entirely of glass, combining 204 panels of laminated mouth-blown glass with 16 fins of laminated, toughened glass, with steel ring beams and tension cables the only non-glass elements. 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. At the time of its completion, the artwork was the largest free-standing glass structure ever made.Gallery
