Art Deco Skyscraper

     When you view this skyscraper, you're infused with optimism and a "sense of sharing" to improve society.  It's electric!  You can almost feel the energy dig-zagging throughout the building.  The power of "the modern era" was encapsulated and symbolized in that era's Art Moderne style.  This is the General Electric building on Lexington Avenue (a street of Art Deco masterpieces), erected in 1931.  I hope you enjoy its craftsmanship and edgy ornamentation.  

     Yet, like much of post-war America, it lost its energy.  GE became focused on greed and a stoic monopoly.  GE moved to a less ornamental building in Rockefeller Center (named after the greedy robber-barons who built it).  This building is still symbolic of the "world of possibility".  I suppose if you worked in it, you might feel motivated, too.