Empire State Building

Posted by Robin on Jan 22, 2014 in Featured, Film | Comments Off on King Kong

Construction of the Empire State Building had only recently been completed when Hollywood realized how to romanticize it —...

Posted by Robin on Sep 18, 2011 in Featured, Travel | Comments Off on Travel: The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel

You’ve stayed in those hotels where if you’ve seen one room, you’ve seen them all? That’s not how they do it at the...

Posted by Robin on Jul 27, 2010 in Architecture, The Arts | Comments Off on Architecture: The Chrysler Building

For 40 years, the Empire State Building (Great American Things, May 13, 2009) symbolized New York City until the World Trade Center towers...

Posted by Robin on May 13, 2009 in Architecture, The Arts | 1 comment

You can’t talk about the Empire State Building without being startled by the sheer scale of the thing. It’s almost a quarter of...