The building is immense. Its floor covers eight acres. Its walls extend upward 525 feet (the Statue of Liberty is 305 feet high). Each of the four doors of the V.A.B. is 456 feet high, tall and wide enough to admit the United Nations’ headquarters building. The V.A.B. is secured to Florida bedrock by 4,225 piles driven down 160 feet to prevent it from taking off like a box kite in a hurricane.
