Connecticut General

Connecticut General (now CIGNA) is an insurance company whose headquarters are located in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

You seriously wouldn't believe this shit if you saw it. I don't know if it's the first office park ever, but if you're going to get Skidmore, Owings, and MF-ing Merrill involved, you know this isn't some cookie-cutter project. CG was deliberate, and within the context of dominant (though ultimately discredited) ideas of urban planning, it's a brilliantly-executed piece of architecture.

Or it was.

Garden City
The idea was, Jane Jacobs hadn't done her thing yet, so people were still operating under the notion that what you want is a total concentration of everything in a big building in the middle of a field. Awesome!

Not really, but if it could have been awesome it would have been awesome as SOM executed it in the Connecticut General headquarters. You know how idiots sometimes say 'Communism didn't fail, it was never really given a chance!!' Well, you can't say that about Le Corbusier's garden city, because of Hartford, Connecticut and because of CG specifically. I mean, look at this thing!!