Chrysler Building New York City

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The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, has various fine architectural details and especially the building's gargoyles were modelled after Chrysler automobile products like the hood ornaments of the Plymouth; they exemplify the machine age in the 1920s. Standing at 319m it was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931. However, the Chrysler Building remains the world's tallest brick building. The New York Times Building, which opened in 2007, is exactly level in height. Composed of 7 radiating terraced arches, Van Alen's design of the crown is a cruciform groin vault constructed into 7 concentric members with transitioning set-backs, mounted up one behind each other. The Chrysler Building's distinctive profile has inspired similar skyscrapers worldwide.

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Maarten added an image
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Leo added an image
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Cristobal edited "Edit: Height, Number of floors and add 3DWareHouse"
5 months ago

Cristobal commented...

Maarten, It's true. This building was built in just two years. Here you have some source from CTBUH.
http://buildingdb.ctbuh.org/?do=building&building_id=422

5 months ago

Maarten edited "added height, dates and website"
6 months ago

Maarten commented...

I cannot agree more. It's the skyscraper icon. Wikipedia 'says' it was build in just 2 years. Is that true?

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Leo added this project
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Leo added company William Van Alen
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Leo added company WP Chrysler
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Project Details

Rating	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10/10 4 votes
City	New York City
Added by	Leo K
Added on	Mar 17, 2010
Views	232
Category	Office
Groundbreaking	1928
Completed	1930
Height	319.0 meter / 1046.6 feet
Floors	77
Links	wikipedia.org
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