The Empire State Building is one of the American symbols

1. The Empire State Building is one of the American symbols.

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The Empire state building (Empire State Building) – the
biggest high-rise building of the city of new York and third
tallest skyscraper in the USA. This majestic skyscraper tops
the list of the most popular monuments of America and is
considered one of the most visited attractions of Manhattan.
The Empire state building is a huge business center and is
one of the most attractive tourist sites of the city. The
skyscraper is the second in size in the country office
building, 85 floors of the Empire state building are occupied
by offices, where every day there are 21 thousand employees,
and on its two floors there are viewpoints.

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A long spire of a skyscraper designers
had planned to use as a mooring mast for
mooring airships. But later this idea was
abandoned because at the level of the
spire almost always blow strong winds.
Moreover, the architects imagined a few
features of Aeronautics to the zeppelins.
In December 1931, just turn six months
after the end of the building, on the spire
of a building mounted antenna, which as
an experiment, the NBC conducted the
first transmission of a television signal.
And 10 years later began the era of
commercial broadcasting. In our days on
a tall building the Empire state building
located the transmitters of almost all TV
channels and radio stations of the city.

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The main construction started
March 17, 1930, St. Patrick's Day,
and it began with excavation and
laying a huge Foundation. Then in
record time – from the beginning of
April to the end of November – from
steel beams erected frame. The
construction was huge – it included
3439 people, most of whom were
newly arrived on American soil to
immigrants. For the week, the
Empire state building has grown on
average by 4.5 per floor. One day
was a record: the workers built a
14.5 floors in just 10 days. To during
lunch breaks, the builders are not
very far from their jobs, the food
they served for five levels of the
building.

5. Architectural features

In the early 30-ies of the last century built
the Empire state building has become not
only the tallest building in the world, but
also the first skyscraper, had more than 100
floors. Its wide base is 60 m 124,5 m. Free
ledges is a 102-storey building rises to a
height of 381 m. a steeple, framed by the
edges of the wing, increasing it to 443
meters. The record of the Empire state
building lasted more than 30 years. Only in
1972, when the city built a building for the
world trade center, the skyscraper on Fifth
Avenue ranked second. But when, after a
terrorist act in September 2001, the twin
towers were destroyed, the old skyscraper
once again received the status of the tallest
building in the city. Square Empire state
building in excess of 250 000 sq. m. On
longitudinally-striped facades of the
skyscraper, there are 6.4 thousand Windows,
and the total area of the glazed surface is
close to two hectares.

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