Pan AM headquarters, New York City, Manhattan, USA, 1978

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Pan American World Airlines headquarters, New York City, Manhattan, USA, this skyscraper was largest in world when opened 1963, featured brutalist modern architecture, architects were Emery Roth and Sons, 808 feet, 246 m tall, now MetLife building, bought by Metropolitan Life Insurance 1981, view from 42nd Street, with the facade of Grand Central Terminal railway station in foreground, beaux arts style, built 1903-13, sculpture is of Mercury, sculptor Jules Alexis Coutain - a 1978 photograph

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Size: 3780px × 2287px
Location: 42nd Street, New York, USA
Photo credit: © M&N / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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