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The 1,046-foot-tall Chrysler Building, completed in May of 1930, was the pinnacle of both the then-unnamed Art Deco period and the skyscraper boom that rapidly transformed New York City’s skyline.
You can now buy the Chrysler Building—here's how much it’ll cost ya. The Art Deco icon is back on the market after a $21 million eviction—brown water, cracked ceilings and all.
The Chrysler Building, a symbol of Art Deco glamor in the 1930s and once the tallest skyscraper in the world, is up for sale, again. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...
According to The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon, Day by Day, Reynolds “asked him to design an 808-foot ...
The Chrysler Building was commissioned by the car company founder Walter P. Chrysler, who called it “a monument to me.” Constructed between 1928 and 1930, it rose to a staggering 1,046 feet.
As our Art Deco Centenary series gets underway, we spotlight the Chrysler Building in New York – one of America's first art deco skyscrapers and the world's first supertall skyscraper.
On the Chrysler Building’s official website, over 650,000 square feet — or more than half the total amount of space in the building — are listed as immediately available for rent, as of July.
But the Chrysler Building could also be dwarfed in the next decade by 175 Park Avenue — aka Project Commodore — that could rise to 1,581 feet on the site of the Grand Hyatt Hotel right across ...
According to The Chrysler Building: Creating a New York Icon, Day by Day, Reynolds “asked him to design an 808-foot skyscraper with an illuminated glass dome for the 42nd Street site” in 1928.
By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Though it only had the distinction of being the world’s tallest building for 11 months, the Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan has remained one of the most ...