One Metropolitan Square, also known as Met Square, is an office
skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ri ...
completed in 1989, located in downtown
St. Louis, Missouri. At , it is the tallest building in the city, and second tallest building in Missouri behind the
One Kansas City Place in
Kansas City
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more th ...
by only 31 feet.
Major tenants include architecture firm
Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum
HOK, formerly Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum and legally HOK Group, Inc., is an American design, architecture, engineering, and urban planning firm, founded in 1955.
As of 2018, HOK is the largest U.S.-based architecture-engineering ...
, which also designed the building, the
Bryan Cave
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is an international law firm with 25 offices worldwide. Bryan Cave was headquartered in St Louis, Missouri. Berwin Leighton Paisner was headquartered in London.
In 2018, Bryan Cave and Berwin Leighton Paisner me ...
law firm, the
Evans & Dixon law firm, the Brown & Crouppen law firm, and the Better Business Bureau.
The building was constructed by McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., the largest general contractor in St. Louis. In early May, 2014, a
DJI Phantom
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* Spirit (animating force), the vital principle or animating force within all living things
** Ghost, the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living
Aircraft
* Boeing Phantom Ray, a stealthy unm ...
quadcopter drone crashed into the building.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Missouri
The tallest structures in the U.S. state of Missouri include a broadcasting tower, an chimney, a monument, and a office building.
Missouri's tallest accessible buildings
Missouri's tallest structures
Missouri's tallest chimneys
Histor ...
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List of tallest buildings in St. Louis
References
External links
Official website
{{St. Louis skyscrapers
Skyscraper office buildings in St. Louis
Office buildings completed in 1989
HOK (firm) buildings
Downtown St. Louis
1989 establishments in Missouri
Buildings and structures in St. Louis
Skyscrapers in St. Louis