Tomorrow the Chrysler Building turns 75! Here's some fun NY Times stuff...

An office with a view - Audio Slideshow (http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/05/26/garden/20050526_CHRY_AUDIOSS.html)

The dentist in the spire - video (http://www.nytimes.com/video/html/2005/05/25/garden/20050526_CHRYSLER_VIDEO.html)

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The Chrysler Building under construction.

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CHRYSALIS: William Van Alen's design evolved from conventional to streamlined. The spire was kept secret, rising at the last minute to beat the competition.

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William Van Alen with his wife at the 1931 Beaux Arts Ball.

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The former skyline.

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A fog's embrace in 1984.

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Murals in the lobby signaled optimism.

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In 1988 workers waterproofed one of the eight eagle gargoyles encircling the building..

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In the 1930's the ground floor had a Chrysler showroom.

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A stairwell of black marble and aluminum leaf.

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A painted starburst motif inside the observatory

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A mid-1930's parade of new Chryslers outside the showroom.

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Superman's view

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The lobby.

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The restored lobby.

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A blimp floats by in 1937.

I love this building, is one of my favourite!

beautiful.

Wow.. this building makes me emotional every time.

True beauty is timeless!

Thanks!!! I saw the video and slides!! :okay:

Very good!!!

The best building ever. It always made me wonder, is it possible for one of the sides to come out for a landing pad like in Spiderman? :)

Congratulations for this icon of good architecture and design.I love Chrysler!

This is my favourite skyscraper in the world. Why the hell cant we build them like this anymore ? I wish we had in Britain ..

This building is both overrated and underrated at the same time!

The outside is nothing special except from the eagles up......but the inside is class!

Ahh, I disagree. The lower entrance portion has a fantastic design, and the alternating black and white stripes are amazing in the light.

My favourite building in the world too. Truly class. Happy Birthday Chrysler! :cheers:

The dentist in the spire - video (http://www.nytimes.com/video/html/2005/05/25/garden/20050526_CHRYSLER_VIDEO.html)
That's one dentist I'd love to go to! Hmm.. wonder if he's expensive.

When I arrived in New York, this was the first skyscraper I headed to! Happy Birthday Chrysler!

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These photos are beautiful! It's such a magnificent building!

This building has 77 storeys. Within 2 years another celebration :banana:

happy birthday beauty!!
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Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday! My fav modern building in the entire world!!!!!
Easily the best looking 75 year old i have ever seen!

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The perfect scraper!

Perfect she is..

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Nice finds.

Very nice!

cool building !!!!!!!!!!! so beautiful !!!!!

Happy Birthday! You're as beautiful as ever.

Randy Juster/Decopix.comWhen it opened on three floors of the Chrysler Building in 1930, the Cloud Club, pictured above in 1976, was a power lunch spot for corporate executives like Condé Nast and others, including the boxer Gene Tunney. The club closed for good at the end of the 70's.

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Dr. Charles M. Weiss, a dentist, whose office occupies Walter P. Chrysler's gym.

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Frank Campione, an architect, sublets from Dr. Weiss on the 70th floor. The angular interiors reflect the sweep toward the spire.

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amazing architecture

:okay: Thanks for the great shots of one of my all time favorite skyscrapers, SavetheWTC!!...She's simply splendid...
:okay: Art Deco rules!

:ohno: As to why they don't build 'em like that anymore, Zenith, well, part of the problem was probably the reign of the bland, flat-topped box, aka the International Style, with its complete disdain for ornament and its mantra "less is more," in the name of which its champions attempted to completely sweep away the architectural past...

This isn't a blanket condemnation of the International Style, BTW - I appreciate the Lever House and the Seagram building, for instance, and I'll always be a sucker for a nice, shiney-shiney glass curtain wall. The real problems, IMHO, are the multitudes of cheap knock-offs, and modernism's rigid intolerance of anything else.

And then you have vile philosophy like deconstruction, which insists that there's really no such thing as beauty (or truth or goodness, either) seeping through the culture, corrupting whatever it touches...:ohno:

So while there are still some architects designing very nice buildings, from what I've seen, a number of the "avant garde" critics and architects, such as Muschcamp or Eisenmann, wouldn't recognize beauty if they slammed into it face first, and wouldn't acknowledge it if they did...:ohno: And unfortunately, this "avant garde" has far more influence than it deserves ...:ohno:

I'm sure this quick analysis is incomplete, but I still say it's true

I'm speechless :drool:

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