Imagine the level of standards that went into designing and building the Empire State Building. Imagine the company at Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, the company that designed it; I thought of this when I was flying open-door helicopter over it a few years ago. The audacity of the people to think they could design a building so high and so beautiful inside and out must have been met with calls for insanity at the time. The detail on the outside and the beauty of design on the inside is still a sight to behold all these years late.