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Chrysler Building 405 Lexington Avenue 1930 William Van Alen, Architect This enigmatic New York building is 318m high, an Art Deco skyscraper that is a world-famous symbol for New York. Tallest building globally on completion, taking over from the Eiffel Tower: Paris Buildings. It obviously was also the tallest building in New York until the Empire State Building was completed the following year. The Chrysler Building was refurbished 1995. Other key New York Skyscrapers: Empire State Building 350 Fifth Avenue, New York 1931 Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, Architects Empire State Building 381m high skyscraper, Art Deco architecture - especially the tower interior, famous New York landmark. Rockefeller Center 5th - 7th Avenue; 47th - 51st Street, Midtown, New York 1932-40 Raymond Hood, Architect Rockefeller Center The home of the beautiful ice rink, supreme luxury of the Rainbow Rooms, and the Radio City Music Hall Seagram Building 375 Park Avenue, New York 1954-58 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson Seagram Building Philip Johnson became an associate for Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building in 1955: he worked on interiors such as the Four Seasons Restaurant. Ten Key New York buildings (chronological): 1. Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York Frederic Bartholdi 2. Flatiron Building Daniel Burnham, Architect 3. Pennsylvania Station McKim, Mead & White, Architects 4. Chrysler Building William Van Alen, Architect 5. Empire State Building Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, Architects 6. Rockefeller Center Raymond Hood, Architect 7. Guggenheim Museum Frank Lloyd Wright Architects 8. Seagram Building Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect 9. TWA Building, New York Airport Eero Saarinen, Architect 10. Whitney Museum Marcel Breuer, Architect New York Skyscrapers Freedom Tower - Site of World Trade Center Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan 2004- Daniel Libeskind Architects + David Childs of SOM Architects Controversial towers to replace the New York World Trade Centre skyscrapers lost in 2001. The main Freedom Tower skyscraper by Libeskind was to be a significant number of feet high - 1,776 ft - to mark a key American date in history - United States Year of Independence; the building was largely handed over to architect David Childs. New York Architects New York Architecture Modern Architects Iconic Buildings World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe Comments / photos for the Chrysler Building New York Architecture page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk Chrysler Building New York : page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt			Buildings by this architect: n/a Key Links: Skyscrapers Architecture Studios New Houses American Architects American Architecture New York Buildings