Though it only had the distinction of being the world’s tallest building for 11 months, the Chrysler Building has remained ...

Robins, a founding member and former vice president of The Art Deco Society of ... “height supremacy,” the building plans had changed to accommodate additional floors. The press played up ...

The 1,046-foot-tall Chrysler Building, completed in May of 1930, was the pinnacle of both the then-unnamed Art Deco period and the skyscraper boom that rapidly transformed New York City’s skyline.