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Ikea, the Swedish low-cost furniture retailer, plans to demolish a portion of a 1969 Marcel Breuer building in New Haven that was originally designed for the Armstrong Rubber Company.
The design features a long, low structure, with a tower situated at one end of the lower building and cantilevered above it on piers. In Ikea's original plan for the site, the building would have been razed entirely and replaced with surface parking.
According to Karyn Gilvarg, the city's chief planner, the mayor of New Haven directed Ikea to preserve the building, which is a prominent landmark from the main...