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Structure-ID: s0001198
Created on: 01/24/01
Modified on: 06/14/08


MetLife Building

Pan Am Building, Grand Central City
Built: 1958 - 1963
Status: in use
Address: 200 Park Avenue
Location: Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
MetLife Building
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Structural Type:
Frame structure
Function / usage:
Office building

Persons involved with this structure
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RoleNamePart of structure 
Architect Pietro Belluschi
  Walter Adolf Gropius

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RoleNamePart of structure 
Architecture Emery Roth & Sons
Steel construction American Bridge Company

Technical information
DescriptionValue
Construction materials used
façade  reinforced concrete
glass
building structure  steel
floor slabs  reinforced concrete
Dimensions
  height 246 m
  number of floors (above ground) 59
  office space 223 100 m2

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Relevant Literature
* Hochhaus der Pan American in New York / Pan Am Tower in New York, in "Detail - Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail", 1964, n. 5 v. 4 .
* Hochhaus der Pan American in New York / Pan Am Tower in New York, in "Detail - Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail", December 2000, n. 8 v. 40 .
* BROCARD, René   Le Pan Am, gratte-ciel de 60 étages, construit au-dessus de deux niveaux de voies ferrées, à New-York, in "La Technique des Travaux", November 1964, n. 11-12 v. 40 .
* Dupré, Judith   Skyscrapers, Black Dog & Loventhal, New York (USA) , ISBN 1884822452, 1996; pp. 56-57.
* Dupré, Judith   Skyscrapers (2nd edition), Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., New York (USA) , ISBN 1579127878, 2008; pp. 58-59.
* Werner, Heike   New York City für Architekten, Heike Werner Verlag, Munich (Germany) , ISBN 3980947106, 2004; pp. 154.

 
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