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Empire Lessons (Part 1)
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
This is one of several stories about extraordinary projects that had a significant impact on the world. Each one involved project managers, engineers, technical professionals, builders and skilled artisans of every stripe. More than history lessons, these are real-life accounts about people who changed our workplace.
The 102-story EmpireStateBuilding, located at 350 Fifth Avenue in New York, ranks among the world’s most beautiful buildings. When it was completed, a writer at the time said it was only surpassed by the EiffelTower. It held the title of the world’s tallest building from 1931 to 1973, when that title was usurped by the SearsTower in Chicago and the WorldTradeCenter in downtown Manhattan.
When it opened, the EmpireStateBuilding was promoted as the eighth wonder of the world. In 1955, the American Society of Civil Engineers selected it as one of the seven greatest engineering achievements in the history of the country. The building achieved celebrity status when the 1933 film King Kong became a cult classic. How can anyone forget the scene of the giant ape perched on the EmpireStateBuilding holding a screaming Fay Wray while double-winger fighter planes riddled his body with machine-gun bullets?
The New Deal building boom
The 1930s witnessed major construction projects from coast to coast. Along with the Empire State Building,…
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