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

Paul Kerley highlighted the combination of history, like the antique ceiling, brickwork and Art Deco ... floor of The Forge at the former Liberty Plaza. In its more than 100-year history, the ...

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.

The Chrysler Building has become emblematic of the Art Deco period — and was one of the era's last architectural triumphs before the Great Depression halted New York's rapidly-changing skyline.