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The Torin Corporation, formerly the Torrington Manufacturing Company, produced air-moving equipment. In 1971, Breuer and his partner Herbert Beckhard designed a third building for the Torin campus, which joined the Administration Center and Machine Division Factory. The low building contained a machine shop, laboratory and research facilities with a hub of test cells in the center of the space. Smaller projecting volumes on either side of the main building contained a lobby and conference space to the east and a receiving area, electrical room and cooling tower to the west. For this building, Breuer utilized split-face concrete blocks relieved by horizontal lines of precast concrete window modules with heavy overhangs that tapered toward the bottom of the frames. Similar materials were later utilized for the Torin Corporation building in Penrith, Australia. The architects also incorporated walls of floor-to-ceiling glass on the north and south elevations.