![]() ![]() Restoring the tower’s crown would require extensive homework and on-site analysis. (Courtesy of the Empire State Realty Trust) ![]() The restoration project removed 40,000 pounds of clutter from the spire and the installation of hundreds of new aluminum panels. Unfortunately, that role as an infrastructural hub for communications led to the clustered and haphazard installation of equipment across the mooring mast-an unsightly arrangement that hindered the spire’s long-term maintenance. The Empire State Building, as one of the tallest and most centrally located towers within New York City, proved a more than an ideal site for transmission and broadcast equipment. The mooring mast, or spire, that rests atop the tower’s heavy and stepped masonry massing is perhaps the project’s most iconic feature and is nearing the completion of a comprehensive restoration to bring it back to its original luster, led by master riggers Cole NYC and CANY Architecture and Engineering and real estate services company JLL and the Empire State Realty Trust. Although surpassed in height by more recent projects such as SHoP Architect’s 111 57th Street and KPF’s One Vanderbilt, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon’s Empire State Building remains the city’s penultimate skyscraper and icon from the art deco era. New York City’s skyline is forever adapting, thrusting ever higher upwards as a jostling amalgam of evolving styles and forms. ![]()
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