The+Empire+state+building

The Empire State Building by Hemi D   Location: 350 5th Ave, New York, United States. Year Built: 1929 Designer: William F. Lamb Meaning: Built because of competitive purposes to keep in style with the Eifel tower of France. Amazing facts: - The color of the buildings lights changes according to the current events(picture below) - 3,400 workers - 410 days of construction - 6,500 windows - 73 elevators - 2,768,591 square feet of floor space - Official records state that only five workers were killed during the construction of the empire state building: one worker was struck by a truck; a second fell down an elevator shaft; a third was hit by a hoist; a fourth was in a blast area; and a fifth fell off a scaffold.