Metropolitan Life North Building

The Metropolitan Life North Building (short MetLife North Building ) is an Art Deco skyscraper on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. It occupies the entire block 24 to 25 Street and Madison Avenue and Park Avenue South.

History

Designed by Harvey W. Corbett Metropolitan Life North Building was to be the tallest building in the world with 100 levels, even higher than the 381 -meter-high Empire State Building. What it should be final, is unknown, but it could not outbid the limit of 400 meters.

In 1928 started the construction of high-rise building, for which, among other things, the only 30 years previously completed Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church of McKim, Mead, and White had to be demolished. In 1933 the construction was canceled due to financial problems as a result of the black Thursday. Until then, only 29 floors were completed. In the next few years the work rested on the high-rise, until 1950 it was completed. However, not as planned with 100 floors, but with only 30

The above average for a building of this size many thirty elevators still bear witness to the fact that the Metropolitan Life North Building should be built far higher than it was in the end. The present building could be built from a technical perspective still using the original plans to the end. However, this is not yet planned.