12. Empire State Building

Height: 381 meters
Floor: 102
Country: United States
City: New York
Complete: 1931

Empire State Building is a symbol of financial strength and is the heart of the city of New York. The building is designed in Art Deco style, a form of architecture popular in the 20th and 30th centuries.

Empire State Building is modeled from a pencil shape, style is quite modern, 381 m tall with 102 floors, built in a record short time, only 16 months. The name of the tower is named after the nickname (nickname) of the City of New York (Empire State). It is considered to be the tallest tower in the world for 40 years, since the completion in 1931, surpassing the Chrysler Building. Only until the World Trade Center (WTC) was completed in 1972, the Empire State Building in New take second place standing. However, after the WTC collapsed in 2001, it held the top spot in the New York and American runners, after the Sears Tower in Chicago.

Including the antenna, up to 443 m high building. 85 floors are reserved for the trade center and offices for lease, with an area of ​​over 200,000 m2. An observatory indoor and outdoor 86th floor. The remaining 16 floors of the cone where the lighting extravaganza. Empire State Building is the first building to have more than 100 floors. It has a total of 6,500 windows, 73 elevators, 1,860 high rank from the street up to 102 floors. Land area is more than 254,000 m2.

Empire State Building has one of the outdoor observatory ideal world, attracting more than 110 million people every year on the 86th floor. From here, can cover over New York. In fact, the building is an observatory on level 102 is again open to the public. But it has to be closed in 1999 and then re-open in January 11/2005. Even so, it does not attract tourists as floor area 86.