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The Chrysler Building was designed by William Van Alen in the Art Deco style and is named after one of its original tenants, automotive executive Walter Chrysler. [21] [22] With a height of 1,046 feet (319 m), the Chrysler is the 12th-tallest building in the city as of 2019, tied with The New York Times Building. [23]
The amount of office space in New York City increased by 92% in the late 1920s. [5]: 49–50 Zoning regulations had major impacts on the design of buildings. The proliferation of ever-larger skyscrapers like the 40-story Equitable Building spurred New York City's passage of the US's first citywide zoning code, the 1916 Zoning Resolution. [6]
As a result, the United States soon took the lead in building tall buildings. The first skyscrapers had been built in Chicago in the 1880s in the Beaux-Arts or neoclassical style. In the 1920s, New York City architects used the new Art Deco style to build the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. The Empire State building was the ...
Van Alen (middle) dressed as the Chrysler Building at a 1931 ball Chrysler Building Former Childs Restaurant in Washington, DC. William Van Alen was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1883 to James Van Alen and Ina C. Van Alen (née Harder) both from Dutch descent. [1] He attended Pratt Institute while working for the architect Clarence True.
The first building to bring the world's tallest title to New York was the New York World Building, in 1890. Later, New York City was home to the world's tallest building for 75 continuous years, starting with the Park Row Building in 1899 and ending with One World Trade Center upon completion of the Sears Tower in 1974. The 1899 Park Row ...
New York: French Renaissance-style building; outstanding example of American hotel architecture; symbol of elegance; visible from much of lower Central Park; setting for Kay Thompson's popular Eloise series of children's books 75: Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims: Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
That’s how New York is, after all. Photo credit: LAUNCHMETRICS SPOTLIGHT Wes Gordon started the day with his elegant showing for Carolina Herrera in the lobby of an office building on Wall Street.
The entire Rockefeller Center complex is a New York City designated landmark and a National Historic Landmark, and parts of 30 Rockefeller Plaza's interior are also New York City landmarks. 30 Rockefeller Plaza was developed as part of the construction of Rockefeller Center, and work on its superstructure started in March 1932.