Torin Corporation, Machine Division Factory

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Torin Corporation, Machine Division Factory

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Drawings   41  browse all »

West and North Elevations (No. SK-1)
SK Drawing Set
Lighting Section and Details

Correspondence   4  browse all »

Letter
Letter
Letter

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North East Facade from the Truck Yard
Aerial View

The Torin Corporation, formerly the Torrington Manufacturing Company, produced air-moving equipment. In 1963, Breuer and his associate Robert Gatje designed and built a factory to produce strip- and wire-forming machinery on the Torin campus in Torrington, CT. The factory consisted of two boxes faced in vertical white porcelain-enameled aluminum siding. The smaller, one-storey box contained offices, a laboratory and a cafeteria. The brick entrance façade featured a strip of horizontal windows and a cantilevered entrance canopy. The larger, two-storey box housed the factory. Brick accents framed the separate factory entrance, which also sported a cantilevered canopy.