NEW YORK | Metlife North Building | 1454+ FT | 100 FLOORS | NEVER COMPLETED - Page 8

rgarri4 · #**141** Posted **Aug 11, 2021, 9:37 PM**

Dam good renderings nmolina83.

nmolina83 · #**142** Posted **Aug 11, 2021, 9:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by rgarri4

Dam good renderings nmolina83.

Thanks a lot!!

skeena222 · #**143** Posted **Aug 19, 2021, 4:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

Beautiful building. One thing about the taller version, some of the features would have been different from the tower that eventually got built. But the massing is pretty much the same.

This could be that third strike in a one-two-three punch of Art-Deco Architecture that Manhattan desperately needs right now. We need the Larkin Tower to be built to give that extra, sorely-needed legitimacy to Hell's Kitchen. The Travelsted Building would provide some needed drama, infill, variety, and context to Midtown East, despite its limited height. The MetLife North Building? Well, it can take the baton from the Empire State Building. The old girl needs that ride off into the sunset.

nmolina83 · #**144** Posted **Aug 20, 2021, 6:18 PM**

Hi all.
I share some diagrams. One with skyscrapers today, and another from the 1930s.

MetLife North-DIAGRAMA-1 by Nicolás Molina, en Flickr

MetLife North-DIAGRAMA-3 by Nicolás Molina, en Flickr
https://www.90-grados.com/
https://www.instagram.com/90grados_renderings/

skeena222 · #**145** Posted **Aug 21, 2021, 4:38 AM**

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Hi all.
I share some diagrams. One with skyscrapers today, and another from the 1930s.

How's about you come up with an option with a single, large spire just for the hell of it? Something that can take it to 2,000 feet?

nlosborne1 · #**146** Posted **Aug 21, 2021, 4:09 PM**

Something I sketched. This should be the world’s tallest building!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/190190636@N02/51392862253

https://www.flickr.com/photos/190190636@N02/51392600016

https://www.flickr.com/photos/190190636@N02/51392863013

nmolina83 · #**147** Posted **Aug 23, 2021, 1:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by skeena222

How's about you come up with an option with a single, large spire just for the hell of it? Something that can take it to 2,000 feet?

I had done a test ...
As soon as I have time I could make the antenna taller. Greetings.

MetLife North-006 by Nicolás Molina, en Flickr

MetLife North-004 by Nicolás Molina, en Flickr

nmolina83 · #**148** Posted **Aug 23, 2021, 1:36 PM**

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Something I sketched. This should be the world’s tallest building!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/190190636@N02/51392862253

https://www.flickr.com/photos/190190636@N02/51392600016

https://www.flickr.com/photos/190190636@N02/51392863013

Too bad the links don't work. I am curious to see that design. Greetings.

RockMont · #**149** Posted **Aug 23, 2021, 4:50 PM**

Wow! Too bad it didn't get build. Would have been a beautiful building.

nmolina83 · #**150** Posted **Aug 23, 2021, 6:03 PM**

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Wow! Too bad it didn't get build. Would have been a beautiful building.

Yes, really!
Perhaps with the more defined vertical lines I would have liked it even more. In the style of the Empire State or Rockefeller Center.
Greetings.

NYguy · #**151** Posted **Aug 23, 2021, 8:26 PM**

Give it a more substantial, ESB type spire, and I’ll take it!

skeena222 · #**152** Posted **Aug 24, 2021, 3:44 PM**

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Give it a more substantial, ESB type spire, and I’ll take it!

Seconded

nlosborne1 · #**153** Posted **Aug 28, 2021, 10:21 PM**

Did anyone else have trouble opening the links?

NYguy · #**154** Posted **Aug 30, 2021, 9:26 PM**

Ah, what could have been....

BTW, this view of the tower will be blocked by the new addition below.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTE9VhcLcNO/

nmolina83 · #**155** Posted **Aug 30, 2021, 10:44 PM**

Beautiful photo.
I can use it to make a photomontage?

Greetings.

NYguy · #**156** Posted **Aug 31, 2021, 4:38 AM**

A look back to when Met Life actually did build the world's tallest building...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cu...ttan-as-a-muse

Larger for reading...

NYguy · #**157** Posted **Sep 18, 2021, 7:09 PM**

https://www.instagram.com/p/CT9tWawAgY7/

Raysiri · #**158** Posted **Oct 17, 2021, 8:37 PM**

If this building was built, probably the twin towers wouldn’t have been built and all the other buildings we see today wouldn’t have existed either…

DeSelby · #**159** Posted **Jan 29, 2022, 6:52 AM**

Some cool new renders of what might have been...

https://www.archdaily.com/975817/wha...s-article-show

nmolina83 · #**160** Posted **Jan 30, 2022, 12:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by DeSelby

Some cool new renders of what might have been...

https://www.archdaily.com/975817/wha...s-article-show

Thank you very much for sharing the post.
Yes, we had to make new photomontages for the Archdaily.com and Plataformaarquitectura.com pages.
Greetings!