“Wyeth Collegeville is a very contemporary building, so we tried to use stone in new and exciting ways that fit with the style of the architecture,†said Adam Glaser, project designer with Kling Architects. “Collegeville is also a very large and expansive building which made us very conscious of scale since there are literally thousands of square feet of stone. The main spine alone, paved in Nordic Black from Polycor is nearly a quarter of a mile long.†In all, Polycor, Inc. supplied more than 43,000 square feet of stone.
The 720,000-square-foot administrative complex represents Phase II of a four-part master plan, also developed by Kling, for the rural 300-acre site. The new buildings are both additions and overlays to the existing facilities, and as such presented special challenges of massing, function and imagery.