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Why Is The Empire State Building Important

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Architecture, there are very few pieces are architecture that people who do not appreciate it know about. The famous buildings such as churches and landmarks that may have been on the news or are just talked about a whole lot. Knowing architecture or not, it is safe to say that many may know the Empire State Building. Standing at one hundred and two stories tall The Empire State Building is one of the most famous skyscrapers in the world. It was built in eighteen short months during the Great Depression. From nineteen thirty- one to nineteen seventy-two it was the world's tallest building. The Empire State Building stands proudly in the middle of New York City. The Empire State Building is an architectural icon to America and it is the Single …show more content…

It wasn’t a building where people just went to work and visited, it was famous. The Empire State Building has been used in so many of America’s most famous movies These movies included epic thrillers such as, An Affair to Remember featuring Cary Grant, King Kong featuring a giant gorilla, Sleepless in Seattle featuring Tom Hanks, Elf featuring Will Ferrell, and Oblivion featuring Tom Cruise. Tourists are not the only ones who are taking in the three hundred and sixty degree views at the Empire State building also known as the Art Deco skyscraper. The Empire State building is one of the most celebrity-visited landmarks in the world. The Empire State has attracted many of the Celebrities like Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Emma Stone, Novak Djokovic, the whole cast of “Glee,” Penelope Cruz, Heidi Klum, Roger Federer and Tom Cruise, and that would be to just name just a few. The Empire State has also wed hundreds of couples. Many of the couples get married as a part of the Empire State Buildings Valentine’s Weddings contest. Nineteen ninety-four was the year in which the first Empire State Building Valentine’s Day Weddings event was held. Annually, the Empire State Building hosts its annual Run-Up event. This is the event where hundreds of athletes come out each year from around the world race a total of one thousand five hundred and seventy-six steps. They start from the Empire State building lobby up to the eighty-sixth Floor Observatory. The first Run-Up event was held in nineteen seventy-eight. The race goes up one thousand and fifty feet, that is equivalent to 1/5 of a mile vertically. The fastest Empire State building New York Road Runners Run-Up time recorded was Australian Paul Crake whose time was recorded that he reached the Observatory in nine minutes and thirty-three seconds in the year two thousand and

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