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= Chrysler Building =



Location and sorroundings:
It's located on the east side of Manhattan(New York City). Specifying in the Turtle Bay area, situated in the intersection between 42nd street and Lexington Avenue. Because his situation on Manhattan,a great borough of New York City with **1,585,873** citizens,its surroundings consist in the whole borought.

William H. Reynolds was the original owner,but he was unable to afford the necessary money to continue with the project it was adquired by Walter.P.Chrysler. The ownership of the building has changed several times. The Chrysler family sold the building in 1947, and in 1957 it was purchased by real-estate moguls Sol Goldman and Alex DiLorenzo,and owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. Later,it was owned by Jack Kent Cooke,a Washington,D.C investor,in 1979.

In the last years,it has changed of owner so many times,and nowadays,the 90% of the building is property of the Abu Dhabi Investment Council,who bought it for 800 million dollars.



It was the headquarters of the Chrysler Corporati on from 1930 until the mid 1950's, but although the building was built and designed specifically for the car manufacturer, the corporation did not pay for the construction of it and never owned it, as Walter P. Chrysler decided to pay for it himself, so that his children could inherit it.

Nowadays,its main usage is the commercial offices.

Year,period,style...
It was build in 1929-1930,when a huge competition to build the tallest building of the New York City,and is one example of the Art Deco movement.



**The architect:**

**William Van Alen** (August 10, 1883 – May 24, 1954) was an American architect, best known as the architect in charge of designing New York City 's Chrysler Building (1929-30).

Description of the project:
The original idea was to build the highest building of the world,but it was not possible.

The structural material is the steel,and the facade material are the bricks.

Its structiral system is a rigid frame,one load-resisting eskeleton that provides the building of a great consistence.

It's a skyscrapper made for commercial usage,so it doesn't have any type of decoration.

Conclusion:
This building is one of the more popular american buildings,and it represents the competition and the race to build the highest building in the New York City.

All of us have probably seen it in lots of films,but maybe you don't recognise it at this specific moment.

I hope you will be able to recognise it.



[] ( video about the building,insedes and outsides,history,etc...)

[|http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&lng=3&id=chrysler][|building-newyorkcity-ny-usa] (web page about the building)