Overview

The construction of the Empire State Building was orchestrated by general contractors Starrett Brothers and Eken, premier ""skyline builders"" of the 1920s. They scheduled the delivery of materials and the construction and recorded daily the number of workers by trade. Compiled from these records, an in-house notebook documented the construction process. Meticulously typed on graph paper and illustrated with construction photographs, this unique document combines a professional specificity of detail with a charming rhapsody to the firm's crowning achievement. Constructed in eleven months, the 1250-foot Empire State Building, the world's tallest skyscraper from 1931 to 1971, was a marvel of modern engineering. The frame rose more than a story a day; no comparable building since has matched that rate of ascent.

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A handsome volume, annotated intelligently and accompanied by two excellent essays and original site photographs, it is instructive, interesting and occasionally entertaining. The Times Higher Education Supplement

""[C]ombines a professional specificity of detail with a charming rhapsody to the firm's crowning achievement.... Expertly reproduced...a unique and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, college and university library American Architectural History and Structural Engineering collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. "" -- Midwest Book Review

"""[C]ombines a professional specificity of detail with a charming rhapsody to the firm's crowning achievement.... Expertly reproduced...a unique and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, college and university library American Architectural History and Structural Engineering collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. "" -- Midwest Book Review"

Author Information

Carol Willis, an architectural historian and founder of The Skyscraper Museum.

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