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It is utterly insane that no one has professed supreme love for the Empire State Building yet, so I will do it. It is the quintessential skyscraper. The Chrysler Building, by comparison, is the architectural equivalent of a fifty-cent whore wearing too much lipstick, jewelry and perfume.*
- Kidding, kidding. But I’m trying to make a point here.
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I agree with the Empire State Building as being the greatest and most amazingly constructed, but the Chrysler Building would be #2 on my list.
While I grieved deeply for the destruction of the Twin Towers to the Terror events of 9/11 and the loss of life on that day of infamy, the buildings themselves were soulless glass boxes built of inferior material and having no style. I love the grace of the classic stepped Manhattan buildings.
I was just driving through Orlando and I commented to my wife that I love the fact that their newish Tall buildings have some style and very few plain glass boxes.
Jim