Those were the days…!
Benjamin Morris, plan for a new Met, 1928
Architect Benjamin Morris, who had also proposed plans for the West 57th Street opera house, continued to work with the Met board’s New Site Committee. In May 1928, Morris presented a plan for the land now occupied by Rockefeller Center. His proposal for an opera house facing a plaza, surrounded by commercial towers, was the origin of what would later become the Center. 
Benjamin Morris, plan for Metropolitan Square, 1928
Metropolitan Opera House
May 14th, 2017
The Humble Fabulist 