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Chrysler Building New York, Architect, Skyscraper, Date, Height, Address
Chrysler Building New York : Architecture Information
Famous Manhattan High Rise - Thirties Art Deco Tower, USA
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
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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 Architecture - Selection
56 Leonard Street
Herzog & de Meuron

image © Herzog & de Meuron, Basel, 2008
56 Leonard Street
MoMA Tower Manhattan
Ateliers Jean Nouvel

image © Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Modern Architects
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