MetLife Building

The MetLife Building, formerly Pan Am Building, is a skyscraper on Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.

Description

The construction work for the building began in 1960 and ended in 1963. Executive architect was the firm Emery Roth & Sons, which stood on the design side, Walter Gropius and Pietro Belluschi. With 246 meters divided into 60 floors it is today, the 17- tallest building in New York City. Originally it housed the management of the airline Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am short ). In 1981 it was purchased by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. 1993, it was renamed Pan Am Building in MetLife Building. The eye-catching lettering underneath the facade was replaced. The real estate company Tishman Speyer Properties bought it for 1.72 billion U.S. dollars. The actual address is 200 Park Avenue; it extends from the 43rd to 45th Street.

What began in 1954 as a reconstruction of Grand Central Terminal, ends with the establishment of the Pan Am Building, which is known as the MetLife Building today. With its glass façade and its form as a octagon with three horizontal interruptions is an eye- catcher for the entire Park Avenue. The roof was previously fitted with a helicopter landing pad, and 1965-1968 could be flown within seven minutes to JFK International Airport. This can be seen at about the end of the film Coogan's Bluff with great Clint Eastwood. 1977 was again offered for five months, but set shortly thereafter because an accident on May 16, 1977 called for five lives this service. Among other things, were among the victims and the director Michael Findlay and his wife, the director Roberta Findlay.

The facade of the building was renovated in 2002.

In film and TV

The future of the MetLife Building after the disappearance of mankind is treated in sequence 2 of the second season of the docu-fiction series Life After People ( "poison cloud ", USA 2010).