Today, you’ll probably come across the re-envisioned, glass-clad renderings of the MetLife Building (formerly Pan Am Building) at 200 Park Avenue (say it ain’t so!). They’re part of an industry-led architectural competition by Metals in Construction magazine and the Ornamental Metal Institute of New York to reimagine the 1963 building next to Grand Central Terminal with a “resource-conserving, eco-friendly enclosure.” But did you know that the Pan Am Building once had a helicopter deck on its roof? In 1965, trial runs for the roof began using a Chinook helicopter.
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