The Metropolitan Insurance Tower was built 1909 by the architect Napoleon LeBrun and The Hidden Construction Company. This tower contains within 50 stories, with a height of 700ft {213 m}, they replaced old Reneissance details on the building by covering the exterior of the building with Limestone, Tuckahoe marble and they added computerized, multicolored nightime lighting. It has four clocks placing a clock in each column, each clock measures 26.5ft {8 m} in diameter with each number being 4ft {1.2 m},the minute hand weight half a ton. The first reaction that I had when I saw the Metropolitan Insurance Tower in the screen for the first time was the big clocks and the top that looks like torret. In night when the lights are turn on the designs and structured by far distance.
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