The Stamford Cone is a 14-metre-high (46 ft) stained glass pavilion,[1] commissioned from the artist Brian Clarke as a site-specific artwork for the headquarters of UBS AG and landmark feature for the city of Stamford, Connecticut in the United States.
[5] In 1996, the British artist Brian Clarke was approached by the Swiss Bank Corporation to design a work of site-specific art for their new headquarters in Connecticut, as part of the City of Stamford's Percent for Art programme.
The artwork was to be situated in a landscaped park being laid out adjacent to the headquarters complex, now named Gateway Commons.
The composition consists of 204 individual panels of mouth-blown glass[7] laminated to a skin of protective float that forms the exterior glazing, supported by 16 fins of laminated, toughened glass, with steel ring beams and tension cables the only non-glass elements.
[8] The work is located in Gateway Commons, a landscaped park that runs along Washington Boulevard adjacent to the former UBS Dillon Warburg center, created as part of the 1990s regeneration drive for the area[9] that included the commission of the Cone.