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PanAm Building - MetLife
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LOCATION |
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  North America |
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  United States |
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  New York |
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Metropolitan area |
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  New York City |
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  New York |
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  New York - Manhattan |
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  Manhattan |
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  200 Park Avenue/44th Street
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TYPOLOGY |
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ARCHITECTURE | Buildings for offices and professional practises
Offices
Vertical architectures
Skyscrapers
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CHRONOLOGY |
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Project |
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1958
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Realisation |
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1963 |
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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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Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Fisher Stevens, Renoly Santiago, Laurence Mason |
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever |
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Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Simon Oakland, Jack Nicholson |
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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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Bruno Zevi, Spazî dell'architettura moderna, Einaudi, Torino 1973, tav. 193 [III. I maestri del periodo razionalista] |
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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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CLIENT |
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Pan American World Airways |
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DIMENSIONAL DATA |
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Height |
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sq.m. 307.000 (sq.ft. 3.140.000) |
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STRUCTURES |
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The Office of James Ruderman |
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STAFF |
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Walter Gropius (TAC, The Architects Collaborative) Pietro Belluschi
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Richard Roth (Emery Roth & Sons) |
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Walter Gropius (TAC, The Architects Collaborative), Pietro Belluschi |
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