The Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower and Empire State Building

The Eiffel Tower of Paris, the Empire state Building of New York Buckingham palace of London and an unnamed building in Mexico City are great and magnificent buildings.

Among the mentioned buildings the 2^nd is the much taller than the first. It did not begin to rise until 1930 and the building was 1250 feet tall when president Hoover opened it in 1930. Next in 1951 a TV transmission tower was added for radio and television broadcasts. The tower thus added another 222 feet to its height and this brother the total height to 1472 feet. The 102 storey Empire State Building remained the world’s tallest structure for 40 years. However it is now challenged by some more high-rise buildings such as the world Trade center in New York, Chicago’s Sears Tower and Moscow’s Ostankino TV shaft. But the Empire state Building is still one of the most impressive buildings of the world and is visited by about 1.5 million people every year.

The Empire State Building is a city within city. It provides every kind of service to its 16,000 permanent tenants. They include banks, restaurants, shops, drugstores and travel bureaus.

It has 73 high speed elevators plus four moving stairways on the lower floors, 6,500 windows, ten million bricks and 400 tons of stainless steel. To meet its communication needs there are 3,500 miles of telephone and telegraph wires. To give it light and heat another 25, 00,000 feet electrical wires are required. All these are very up to date. But recently the destruction of the World Trade Centre has brought fear for all other noted buildings of the world. It is told that it happened for terrorism.