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PanAm Building - MetLife
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ARCHITECTURE | Buildings for offices and professional practises
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THE BUILDING IN CINEMA |
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, James Brolin, Martin Sheen, Jennifer Garner |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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Meredith L. Clausen, The Pan Am Building and the shattering of the Modernist dream, The MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.)/London 2005
review: Federico Bucci, "Un grattacielo 'odiato'/A "hated" skyscraper", Domus 889, febbraio/february 2006, "Libri/Books" pp. 104-105
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ADDITIONS AND DIGRESSIONS |
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Joni Mitchell, "Harry's House", The Hissing of Summer Lawns (album), 1975 |
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He opens up his suitcase In the continental suite And people twenty stories down Colored currents in the street A helicopter lands on the Pan Am roof Like a dragonfly on a tomb
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