A clay model of the Empire State Building, rendered in Rosé Pine red on a dark background
A site model of the Empire State Building in its neighbourhood: the landmark in Rosé Pine red among grey buildings, with its water in blue

Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.

New York · United States

Empire State Building

443 metres · 1,453 feet

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Height
443 m1,453 ft
Completed
1931
By
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
Coordinates
40° 44′ 54″ N73° 59′ 09″ W · 40.7484, -73.9857

A five-storey base filling the block, a broad shaft above it, then setbacks narrowing to the tower, its crown stepping in under the mooring mast and the antenna.

Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under New York, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.

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