Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower

The Metropolitan Life Tower (short MetLife Tower ) is a skyscraper in New York. It was built in 1908-1909 by the architects Pierre LeBrun and Napoleon LeBrun and the headquarters of insurance company Metropolitan Life Insurance Company should be. With its height of 213 meters and 50 floors, it solved the Singer Building from the tallest building in the world until it was overtaken in 1913 by 241 meter high Woolworth Building. He is now the 42- tallest building in New York.

The architects had a lot of criticism in the publication of the plans of the Metropolitan Life Tower, as they were accused that the Metropolitan Life Tower was very similar to the Campanile in St. Mark's Square in Venice. They instructed from any allegation, because the architecture corresponded exactly to the ideas of the directors of the contracting Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The building should symbolize stability and recall the resistance of yesteryear.