Pan American World Airways Building (MetLife)

high-rise building

The Architects Collaborative (architecture)
Walter Gropius (architecture)
Pietro Belluschi (architecture)

• United States of America

  Staat

  New York

  state

  New York City

  city

  Manhattan

  district

  Park Avenue; East 44th Street

  street

period	description
1958–1963	planning and construction period

description	amount/size
height	246, m
floors	59,

• train station
• office building
• façade element out of exposed concrete
• prefabricated part
• form: octagon
• high-rise building
• traffic: car
• traffic: railway
• traffic: pedestrians

Pan American World Airways Building, Rooftop Development

• article in: Walter Gropius, Band 1: Der Architekt und Theoretiker Werkverzeichnis Teil 1
  H. Probst, C. Schädlich
  Ernst & Sohn; 1986
  page 238ff
  
• Hochhaus der Pan American in New York
  in: Detail: Vom Sinn des Details | The Purpose of Details, 8/2000
  page 1457
  

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