King Kong was shot at its peak, nearly 404 meters high. Andy Warhol filmed it in a fixed plane for eight hours. HG Wells predicted that 2016 would be demolished. In the movie Independence Day is attacked by a fleet of flying saucers aliens. It also appears in films by Scorsese, Hitchcock, Woody Allen ...
Once a year is a race to see who goes faster than the 1576 steps separating the bottom floor 86 (the building has 102). The record is 9 minutes and 33 seconds. Every Valentine's Day as dozens of couples choosing to marry.
Since it opened on May 1, 1931, has been visited by 110 million people . Celebrities who have leaned on the lookout are all conditions: Fidel Castro, Queen Elizabeth of England, the group Kiss, Lassie the dog-actress ... The John Doe paid, to this day, between 13.78 and $ 19.49 for access.
The Empire State Building at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street west of the island of Manhattan (New York, USA), is no longer the tallest skyscraper in the world, a position he held for 41 years until construction (1972-1973) of the Twin Towers. Now is the fifteenth and the third in the U.S..
One of the seven wonders
But no one can argue that it remains the most pop. On 1 May this year turned 80 and does not start certainly the condition. Stunning and beautiful, the layout and decor Art Deco, is considered one of the seven wonders of the modern world.
To celebrate the birthday, the owners, the family of magnates Malkin, has announced the end of the remodeling, improvement and energy efficiency initiated several years ago. Want, say in a statement that the "significant birthday" serve to maintain the status of the skyscraper as "international symbol of innovation and innocence."
has little innocentIn the second movement of the owners: take to bag the Empire State and symbolic use their pull to attract investors willing to take a piece the skyscraper. The operation is not viewed favorably by the main partners of Malkin, the heirs of the controversial billionaire Helmsey Leonora, reports The New York Times .
preparation for the IPO, the owners have completed a comprehensive makeover of the Empire State. They have invested nearly 400 million euros in the plan of energy efficiency plan, the reform of the hall and the observatory and the recovery Art Deco murals the hall.
Designed by architect William F. Lamb, who It took only two weeks on the initial sketches (based on previous ideas of other projects), the Empire State was built by 3,400 workers, almost all European immigrants, and several hundred Mohawk Indians .
According to official data of the builders, five workers died during construction, which was developed at a fast pace nearly five stories a week to compete with the Chrysler Building. In a year and 45 days, the building was inaugurated. The cost was $ 41 million at the time.
The skyscraper of 102 floors and 73 elevators that take less than a minute to get to floor 86, has 6,500 windows, occupies a plot of a surface over 8,000 square meters (horizontally has a total area of \u200b\u200b275,211), houses a thousand offices where 21,000 people work and has its own zip code (10118).
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