One ofMarcel Breuer‘stwoNew Haven, Connecticut buildings will be preserved and converted into a hotel.

When it was finished in 1969, researchers and administrators at Armstrong Rubber worked out of the company’sPirelli Tire Building, aBrutaliststructure whose office tower core is bisected by beguiling angled windows. The building—vacant since the 1990s—is now owned by IKEA and sits aside a store parking lot.

IKEA is in talks with a developer to convert the I-95-adjacent concrete building into a hotel, theNew Haven Independentreported.

AN IKEA spokesperson told the paper that the company hasn’t gone public with its plans for the structure yet. The conversion scheme were revealed at a meeting of the city’s development commission.

布鲁尔的work is enjoying a strong revival, thanks in part to renewed popular interest in Brutalism. In Atlanta, city officials are looking torevampthe Breuer-designed main library, while back in 2016, the Metropolitan Museum of Art restored the Whitney’s former home and re-christened it theMet Breuer.

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