Venice-based firm TA Office has launched a neuroscience research project investigating emotional responses to the built environment.

RECORD editors and staff set up shop in the "last and most magnificent of towers". Photo © Eric Kilby, via Flickr For the first time today, the Architectural Record team comes to work at the Empire State Building. Designed by Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon and built in 1931, the structure stood as the world’s tallest building for nearly 40 years. It now ranks fifth in height in the United States and 25th in the world.The 102-story skyscraper has played a role in more than 250 movies, from classic films like King Kong, An Affair to Remember, and Sleepless in Seattle,