The Empire State Building has been surpassed by many ... completed a year and six months from the starting of the drawings," the architect said. "Yet it remains to this day New York’s signature ...

The architecture firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Associates was chosen to design the colossus. William F. Lamb produced the drawings ... Construction of the Empire State Building, consisting of ...

This was best used in museums, which offered the luxury of statement architecture. But standing 1,250 feet tall, a deconstructed Empire State Building would have provided a statement like no other.

Every NYC architect of the period, including the firm Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, which designed the Empire State Building, had to taper their designs up (or in industry terminology, add setbacks).

To the tower’s owners, the sale of the drawings “constitutes a grave security threat to the Empire State Building as well as it’s many tenants, employees, tourists and the general public bec ...

The majestic Empire ... pointed at the building visible in the distance …" The Empire State Building is widely and pervasively cited as an example of art deco design. But the architect himself ...

For the first time today, the Architectural Record team comes to work at the Empire State Building. Designed by Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon and built in 1931, the structure stood as the world’s tallest ...