Okay, we have a climax on the top of the Chrysler building, but what a climax.
That's more easily discerned in, say, medieval cathedrals than in art deco architecture like the Chrysler Building.
Over the decades, Tishman Speyer has purchased high-profile buildings throughout the world, such as Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building in Manhattan.
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Unless of course you compare them to real estate, in which case they shine like the top of the Chrysler Building .
Looking down on the nearby Chrysler Building and the nose of the Flatiron Building was unreal, like Google Earth or tilt-shift photography jumping into reality.
The tradition of including spires in the heights of buildings dates back at least to 1929 when the Chrysler building was completed.
You can tell the world is calm when the biggest summer scare that Hollywood can conjure is an asteroid beheading the Chrysler Building.
Again and again, American buildings topped one another--the Chrysler Building was the tallest in 1930 but was overtaken by the Empire State a year later.
In 2006, Tishman Speyer LP, which also controls Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building, and investment firm Black Rock bought Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village from Metlife.
He also said the institution's biggest source of cash it owns the land beneath the Chrysler Building will benefit from a rent increase in 2018.
From its treehouse perspective, modern-day archaeologists and architecture enthusiasts can take in rooftop gardens, slices of gritty urban life and views of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building.
Rappers aside, his muses include the Chrysler Building, the Welcome to Las Vegas sign and the Guggenheim Museum, which he plans to paint every year for the next two decades.
Yet Chrysler's real life's work was only beginning: he was about to found his car company and finish the then biggest and most beautiful skyscraper in New York, the Chrysler Building.
Unlike the lush, elaborate, French-inspired, high Deco romanticism of the Chrysler Building, the Empire State's massing and design is a more simplified, commercial evocation of the Machine Age, a favorite theme of the time.
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They advocate the speedy designation of 20 to 30 more buildings as landmarks, among them the Graybar Building, Yale Club and Roosevelt Hotel, adding to the 23 already with such status, including the Chrysler Building, Seagram Building and Lever House.
They endorse rezoning for increased density permitting, in particular, a cluster of five to six buildings, 700 to 900 feet tall (the Chrysler Building is 1, 046 feet), west of Grand Central around Vanderbilt Avenue, with slightly smaller towers marching up Park.
Art professor Mike Essl wondered why the administration seems bent on forcing students to pay when it could try cutting expenses instead, especially as one of the school's biggest cash cows the land beneath the Chrysler Building will benefit from a rent increase in 2018.
From the Chrysler Building in New York to the pastel hotels of Miami Beach and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Art Deco reshaped architecture in the years before World War II -- though the term wasn't coined until the 1960s, drawn from the name of the 1925 Paris decorative-arts exhibition that popularized the style.
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Mies van der Rohe's early work in Berlin shouts avant-garde Europe just as the Chrysler Building in New York, which was completed in 1930, is an elegant reminder of the glitzy jazz age of the 1920s and Horace Walpole's 18th-century Thames-side villa evokes the eclectic sophistication of the countrified lifestyle that still stirs nostalgia in many a would-be squire's heart.
We're hoping that you can get a merger where the taxpayers will put in some money to sweeten the deal, but ultimately the goal is we get out of the business of building cars, and Chrysler goes and starts creating the cars that consumers want.
This very fine, very evolved example of global car building the first fully integrated product collaboration between Chrysler and Fiat, Auburn Hills and Turin is based on a U.S. variant of an Alfa platform, with a Fiat 1.4-liter Multiair turbo engine under the hood.
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Chrysler started doing business with Chery four years ago, when it was building just 90, 000 cars per year.
Companies like GM and Chrysler, they put a lot of time and effort and money into building up their brand, and letting Americans know that the American auto industry is back.
Welch, whose books glorified their skills and boosted the reputations of Chrysler and General Electric, D'Alessandro penned Brand Warfare: 10 Rules for Building the Killer Brand (McGraw-Hill).
Fiat is prepared to transfer its cutting-edge technology to Chrysler and, after working closely with my team, has committed to build -- building new fuel-efficient cars and engines right here in the United States.
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The partnership would also provide a return on investment for the American taxpayer by securing the long-term viability of Chrysler brands in the marketplace, sustaining future product and technology development for our country and building renewed consumer confidence, while preserving American jobs.
Optimism is building in Detroit for a breakthrough labor deal that will make General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler Group more cost-competitive with Toyota Motor.
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