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In which city is the Empire State Building located?

The Empire State Building in New York, USA.

The Empire State Building is one of the landmark buildings in New York, USA. New York is located at 350 Fifth Avenue, between West 33rd Street and West 34th Street in Manhattan. The Empire State Building is the skyscraper that has maintained its status as the tallest building in the world for the longest time. The Empire State Building is 381 meters high and has a total of 103 floors. After a 62-meter-high antenna was added in 1951, the total height was 443.7 meters. The building was designed by Shreeve?Lamb?and ? Designed by Harmon Architectural Company, it is an Art Deco style building.

The Empire State Building is not only a multi-functional office building, but also one of the tourist attractions in New York City. A large number of tourists line up there every day waiting for the elevator to climb to the top to view the scenery. In 1955, the American Society of Civil Engineers rated the Empire State Building as one of the seven engineering wonders of the modern world. The New York Landmarks Commission selected it as a New York City landmark, and in 1986 the building was designated a National Historic Landmark.

Design features of the Empire State Building:

The Empire State Building*** has 2,158,000 square feet of rentable office space on the 85th floor, with an indoor and outdoor office space on the 86th floor. Observation deck. The remaining 16 floors are the Art Deco tower, and the top 102nd floor is an indoor observation deck. Above is the 62-meter-high spire, which is used as a broadcast antenna and lightning rod.

The Empire State Building is the first building with more than 100 floors. It has 6,500 windows and 73 elevators. There are 1,860 steps from the ground to the 102nd floor. The total construction area is 2,768,591 square meters. ft., and the Empire State Building base area is approximately 2 acres. As of 2007, approximately 21,000 employees worked in the building every day, making it the second largest office complex in the United States after the Pentagon.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-New York