The Empire State Building

制作人：王蓉静 1B111503

郭 迪 1B111502

Empire state building

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The Empire State Building is Iocated at the New York city, a famous skyscrapers ,it and statue of Liberty together known as symbols of liberty, is one of the seven wonders of the world engineering miracle. The Empire State Building was 102 layer , and designed by Harmon-William lahm. Started in 1930, and completed in 1931, only costs 410 days, its name comes from New York State.

• The Empire State Building is a height of 433.5 meter's building. According to estimate, the construction of the Empire State Building is about 330,000 tons of material. The Building has a total of 6,500 windows, 73 elevators. Its total construction area reaches to 204.385 square meters.

In the 1930s, the American economy was in great depression, people’s life became poor, but Wall Street’s bosses were keen to build skyscrapers contest. In order to show his rich , Millionaires lars secco built the world’s highest building ---The Empire State Building whose height is for 1250 feet.

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The Empire State Building lies in 350 the Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, sandwiched between 34 Avenue and 33 Avenue, architectural historian Willia said that Empire State Building isnot only a symbol of American business culture ; but also of New York ,or even across the United States forever market.