Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Empire State Building

Accession Number: 
194236
Order Title: 
Archivision Addition Module EIGHT--6,304 images
Type of View: 
generalView
View Title: 
View of lower Manhattan seen from open observation deck, 86th floor
Date of View: 
6/14/2011
Image description: 
The Empire State Building makes more money from tickets sales for its observation decks that it does from renting office space.
Image Rights: 
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Source Institution: 
Archivision, Inc.
Collection: 
Addition Module EIGHT
Culture: 
American
Work Types: 
buildings; multistory buildings; high-rise buildings; skyscrapers
Work Types: 
Architecture; commercial / industrial structures; office buildings
Preferred Title: 
Empire State Building
Agent Display: 
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon (American architectural firm, renamed 1929)
Date: 
2010 (restoration)
Materials: 
steel; Indiana limestone; granite; marble; aluminum
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Measurement: 
1250 ft (height, roof); 1472 ft (height, with spire)
Locations: 
New York, New York, United States
Location Type: 
(site)
Style/Period: 
Art Deco
Style/Period: 
Twentieth century
Classification: 
Architecture