I’ve been infatuated with the Empire State Building since the first time I saw it in 2005. The grand size and its bold stature towering above the New York skyline was what caught my attention to the building. At my young age, I analyzed every detail of the building to where I could draw it freehandedly. The building covered the margins of paper during school as I couldn’t stop trying to perfect my sketch of the tower. The building is the first thing I look for when approaching New York from the airplane, or the taxi into Manhattan from LaGuardia Airport in Queens. The building fills my mind with hope and motivation to one day be in New York and work on projects that created skyscrapers like itself.