Current Status: Completed
MetLife Building Vital Stats
Address: 200 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10166 (Community Board 5)
Type: Commercial
Name: MetLife Building; Pan Am Building
Construction: Begun 1960; Completed 1963
Design Architect: Emory Roth & Sons; Pietro Belluschi
Executive Architect: _
Developer: _
Builder: _
Height: 808 feet (246 meters); 59 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 2,841,511 square feet; 263,985 square meters
Site Area: 1,540,701 square feet; 143,136 square meters
Filed prior to July 2009, there are no Zoning Diagrams scanned for this project.
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Read through our blog below for more information on Supertalls.
THE GUARDIAN: Anything but “Super”
Like leggy plants given too much fertiliser, [sic] these buildings are a symptom of a city irrigated with too much money. The Guardian takes on the emergence of a "new" typology in "Super-tall, Super-skinny, Super-expensive: the 'Pencil Towers' of New York's...
Mechanical Voids Are Highbrow/Despicable
From New York Magazine's "The Approval Matrix: Week of February 4, 2019": "So it's perfectly legal right now for developers to put 160-feet tall "mechanical voids" in their buildings to give apartments higher priced views?" Wethinks they're looking at you, 50 W. 66th...
Out of this world!
GOTHAMIST picks up where it left off last week in its expose on the City Planning Commission's Zoning Text Amendment. Journalist Elizabeth Kim notes that although this language may impact the design of 36 West 66th Street, to revise "the design of a 160-foot tall...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
