CHRYSLER BUILDING

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Title	CHRYSLER BUILDING
View	Angle view depicting the full frieze of projecting automobile hub caps, brick patterns in the form of mudguards and, at the corners, projecting winged stainless steel radiator caps (this is the service floor, at the 30th floor, and the base of the shaft)
Notes	administrative
Work Type	company headquarters skyscraper office building
Style/Period	Art Deco
Creator Name	Van Alen, William
Creator Nationality	American
School of Creator	Art Deco
Date.Creator Birth	1888
Date.Creator Death	1954
Major Design Aspects	set-backs monumental landmark prominence through height
Elements & Spatial Types	coved cold-cathode lighting Art Deco summit
Climate Type	cold temperate
Country	United States of America
City	New York
State/Province	NY
Alternate Place Names	New York City, Manhattan
Architectural Material	steel, stainless steel
Structural System	steel frame curtain wall
Dates	1928-1930
Century	20C
Designation/Awards/Inscriptions	city icon, city landmark, tourist site
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Date Photographed	7/31/1990
Subject Information	In 1928, Walter Percy Chrysler, president of the Chrysler automobile company, resuscitated a project initially conceived by the property developer William H. Reynolds for a skyscraper at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street. His architect, William Van Alen, persuaded him to aimat setting a new record for the world's tallest building: in 1930, a stainless steel spire, which Van Alen called the Vertex', enabled Chrysler to achieve his goal, but it was soon surpassed by the Empire State Building ... Within the spire was housed a luxurious duplex apartment built for Chrysler himself with triangular windows overlooking the vast panorama of Manhattan ... Below, the Cloud Club was a meeting room for American industrial magnates and is decorated in the purest Art Deco style.' Source: Elizabeth de Farcy, Catherine Fouré et al., ed. Everyman Guides: New York. London: Everyman Publishing, 2000, pp. 266-67.
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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