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MetLife Building: Exterior · Helmsley and MetLife Buildings in New York City
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MetLife Building: Exterior · MetLife Building - New York, NY, USA
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MetLife Building: Exterior · MetLife Building - New York, NY, USA
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MetLife Building: Exterior · Photograph shows the Pan Am Building, later known as MetLife Building, in New York City
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MetLife Building: Interior · Lobby of the MetLife Building in Manhattan, New York, seen in March 2021
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MetLife Building: Interior · Lobby of the MetLife Building in Manhattan, New York, seen in March 2021
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Photo 1: Exterior · Helmsley and MetLife Buildings in New York CityPhoto 2: Exterior · MetLife Building - New York, NY, USAPhoto 3: Exterior · MetLife Building - New York, NY, USAPhoto 4: Exterior · Photograph shows the Pan Am Building, later known as MetLife Building, in New York CityPhoto 5: Interior · Lobby of the MetLife Building in Manhattan, New York, seen in March 2021Photo 6: Interior · Lobby of the MetLife Building in Manhattan, New York, seen in March 2021

Office & tower · Modernism

MetLife Building

Emery Roth & Sons, Walter Gropius and Pietro Belluschi · New York, United States · 1963

Key featuresAn elongated octagonal slab of precast concrete set across the axis of Park Avenue above Grand Central.

Architect
Emery Roth & Sons, Walter Gropius and Pietro Belluschi
Place
New York, United States
Year
1963
Typology
Office & tower
Movement
Modernism
Region
Americas
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