Empayr Steyt Bilding

Empayr Steyt Bilding

 Empayr Steyt Bilding is the highest building of New York and the third (after Willis Tower and Trump's towers in Chicago) on height in the USA.

Competition inflamed in New - York - who will construct the highest skyscraper, in the first half of the XX century? By design of a skyscraper it was conducted under the direction of architect William Lamb. It already had experience of construction of high office buildings as Reynolds Bilding in Winston Salem projected, the State of North Carolina and Carew's Tower to Cincinnati, the State of Ohio. Construction was financed generally by the large financier and businessman John Raskobom and one of heads of the largest chemical company of the USA "Dupont" and the known automobile company "General Motors" Pierre Dupont.

The site on crossing of Fifth Avenue and 34th Western Street was chosen as a site. The old building of Uoldorf-Astoria hotel settled down here earlier.

Earthwork on construction Empayr Steyt Bilding began on January 21, 1930, and the beginning of directly construction works dated for one of informal holidays of the USA - to Day sacred Patrick, on March 17, 1930.

About four thousand people worked at a building site Empayr Steyt Bilding, the majority of them were immigrants who have recently arrived to the USA from Europe. Some honeycombs of Indians-mokhokov (могавков) were allocated among other builders of a skyscraper who were considered as the best assemblers-vysotnikami.

The building was erected in the shortest terms (one year and forty five days); already on May 1, 1931 construction Empayr Steyt Bilding was complete.

Empayr Steyt Bilding there were the first building in the world, in which more than hundred floors (namely hundred two). Building height is 381 meters, and with a spike - 443 meters. Forty one years Empayr Steyt Bilding was the highest building in the world while in 1972 the World shopping center was not constructed. After tragic events on September 11, 2001 when as a result of an act of terrorism of a tower of the World shopping center were destroyed, the building Empayr Steyt Bilding again became the highest building of New York.

The total area of a building eats more than two hundred fifty thousand square meters. It has six and a half thousand windows, which total area about two hectares. Visitors and employees Empayr Steyt Bilding are transported by seventy three lifts.

Construction of a building cost more than forty million dollars.

Empayr Steyt Bilding it is constructed in style of art deco, as well as many other architectural constructions of that era (for example Chrysler of Bilding).

The well-known name received a building from a nickname of the State of New York - "Imperial staff" ("Empayr Steyt Bilding" - "A building of imperial staff").

Eighty five floors Empayr Steyt Bilding are occupied with office rooms, two more - observation decks.

In a building more than twenty thousand people, Empayr Steyt Bilding the second (after the Pentagon) in the sizes office building in the USA work.

The building shined with multi-colored searchlights Empayr Steyt Bilding Empayr Steyt Bilding

It was initially planned to use a skyscraper spike as a berthing mast for dirigible balloons, but subsequently this idea refused.

In 1964 on a building the searchlights shining with different flowers its top part were established. The coloring Empayr Steyt Bilding is dated, as a rule, for various holidays and memorials. So, for example, in Day of presidents the building is shined with red-dark blue-white searchlights, on Thanksgiving Day - red-orange-yellow, on St. Valentine's Day - red-rose-white, in Day of sacred Patrick - green.

Empayr Steyt Bilding involves a great number of tourists. The building has two observation decks - on the eighty sixth and hundred second floors. The platform of the eighty sixth floors provides to visitors the circular review of New York, the platform of the hundred second floors is more closed, it is less in the sizes and access of tourists on it is limited. Besides, in a building the attraction simulating flight over New York is located.

Empayr Steyt Bilding - one of the most known and recognized symbols of Manhattan and New York. This skyscraper takes an honourable first place in the list of the architectural monuments most popular in the USA.