Top Floor Of Chrysler Building
The top of the chrysler building is anticlimactic apparently.
Top floor of chrysler building. Once located on the 66th to 68th floors of the chrysler building the cloud club belonged to a group of mile high power lunch spots in new york city atop the city s most distinctive skyscrapers. Above the last setback and the stainless steel eagle head gargoyles though both the program of the interior spaces and the architectural ornament entered the realm of the eccentric. In the end excitement. On the top floor walter p.
The empire state building became the world height champ one year later spurred on by chrysler. Below the 61st floor the chrysler building was a fairly conventional office tower with a shape that followed the setback formula required by the city s zoning law. The highest floor in the chrysler building is 77th floor at 858 ft high and the highest occupied floor is at 828 ft. The chrysler building and the empire state building.
Chrysler had a private apartment and was said to boast of having the highest. The chrysler building is an art deco style skyscraper located in the turtle bay neighborhood on the east side of manhattan new york city at the intersection of 42nd street and lexington avenue near midtown manhattan at 1 046 feet 318 9 m the structure was the world s tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the empire state building in 1931. The chrysler building is one of the most beloved of new york city s skyscrapers an architectural manifestation of both the art deco era and the automobile age. Another fascinating historical tidbit is that there were once apartments in the building.
Photo by dark cyanide. Empire state s builders first planned an 80 story tower but added six more to top chrysler by. A rendering shows the 8 foot glass walls and stellar manhattan views from the proposed observation deck on the 61st floor of the chrysler building.