Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 140 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5108-1271-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, also known as the Metropolitan Life Tower or Met Life Tower, is a landmark skyscraper located on East 23rd Street between Madison Avenue and Park Avenue South, off of Madison Square Park. in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by the architectural firm of Napoleon LeBrun Sons and built by the Hedden Construction Company, the tower is modeled after the Campanile in Venice, Italy. It was constructed in 1909 and served as world headquarters of the company until 2005. It was the world's tallest building for three years, until 1913, when it was surpassed by the Woolworth Building. Currently, the clock tower portion of the building has the address 5 Madison Avenue, while the remainder of the building, occupied primarily by Credit Suisse, is referred to as 1 Madison Avenue. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом,...