As many as 40 projectors beamed Donald Trump's face onto the world's most iconic building after victory

Swathed in America's red, white and blue, the Empire State Building marked Trump's shocking election win

Under Trump's face, which took up around 30 floors of the skyscraper, were the words: 'The 45th President'

Trump rode a wave of populist resentment to defeat his rival and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Hours after taking control of the White House in a victory that has plunged global financial markets into turmoil, Donald Trump has also dominated Manhattan's iconic skyline.

His face was projected onto the Empire State Building to mark the completion of his unlikely ascent from reality TV start to leader of the free world.

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As many as 40 projectors set up three blocks away beamed his facade over 32 stories of the world's most iconic building, alongside the words: 'The 45th President.'

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Donald's Face was projected onto the Empire State Building to mark his stunning election victory over Hillary Clinton

Donald's Face was projected onto the Empire State Building to mark his stunning election victory over Hillary Clinton

As many as 40 projectors set up three blocks away beamed his facade over 32 stories of the world's most iconic building

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Earlier on Tuesday evening the 85-year-old skyscraper - swathed in America's red, white and blue - featured images of both presidential candidates.

The impressive projection kept track of electoral college votes for both Trump, 70, and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, 69, who conceded defeat to the Republican candidate in a phone call early Wednesday morning.

Trump clinched a stunning - and surprising - election win with 289 electoral votes to Secretary of State Clinton's 218.

CNN and Instagram partnered with New York based firm CA technologies to bring 'a breathtaking display of photography, real-time election results, maps, voter mosaics and animations to commemorate one of the nation's most significant elections',

The release revealed: 'The projections will feature Instagram images uploaded by voters from around the nation using the #MyVote hashtag.'

CNN senior vice president Ed O'Keefe told the Washington Post: 'We are using those images, the faces of the supporters of each candidate, to create these projections.'

The Empire State Building featured a special display on its south facade Tuesday for Election Night

The Empire State Building display showed Trump with 247 electoral college votes and Hillary Clinton with 215 at 1.57am EST Wednesday

The skyscraper featured the word 'Vote' on one of its sides in the light show on Tuesday evening as votes across the country were being voted

The words 'Election Night in America' can be seen in a rendering on the building which lit up the New York skyline

A mosaic of images are pictured on the Empire State Building. The display also featured Instagram images uploaded by voters from around the nation using the #MyVote hashtag

Anthony R Malkin, chairman and chief executive officer of Empire State Realty Trust, said America's political system was still 'the best in the world' and the projections were a a 'great way to share the results'.

He told the Washington Post: 'I hope it distracts people from some of the rancor, and puts us in a position to move forward.'

'This is performing without a net. It's real time, and the content has been specifically prepared for this purpose, and none of that has ever been done before.'

Trump rode a a wave of populist resentment to defeat Hillary Clinton in the race to become the 45th president of the United States.

The property mogul defeated his Democratic rival, plunging global markets into turmoil and casting the long-standing global political order, which hinges on Washington's leadership, into doubt.

'Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division,' Trump told a cheering crowd of jubilant supporters in the early hours of Wednesday in New York, pledging to work with Democrats in office.

'I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans,' he declared, in a conciliatory address in which he paid tribute to his defeated opponent and thanked his staff.

The display featured red, white, and blue lights. CNN, Instagram, and CA Technologies made the display possible by working with the building

An image in the Election Night display showed a countdown to polls closing throughout the evening

The display (seen in a rendering) also kept track of electoral college vote. In order to take the White House, a candidate requires 270 electoral college votes

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is pictured named as the presidential election winner in this rendering

Republican nominee Donald Trump is pictured named as the winner of the 2016 presidential election in a rendering

'Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country,' he said of Clinton, whose hopes of becoming America's first woman president were brutally dashed.

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During a bitter two-year campaign that tugged at America's democratic fabric, the 70-year-old bombastic tycoon pledged to deport illegal immigrants, ban Muslims from the country and tear up free trade deals.

His message was embraced by a large section of America's white majority who have grown increasingly disgruntled by the scope of social and economic change in the last eight years under their first black president, Barack Obama.

Many Americans from minority backgrounds expressed dismay at Trump's victory, which some saw as the result of what some observers said was a backlash against multicultural America.