The building is located on the east side of Manhattan at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, with main entrance on 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, United States, compared with the Grand Central Station, although it also has hits the streets 42 and 43. Just a few months later it opened Empire State Building surpassing him in height, 443.5 m. The architect added a metal needle 56.39m, at the top of the tower, whose sections were transported in secret and quickly mounted in an afternoon reaching 319.5 280,72m surpassing my bank building. Chrysler commissioned architect William Van Alen the building became a monument to his thriving company and supposedly it was the tallest building built to date, surpassing that were built at the same time the Bank building Manhattan, then Trump Building at 40 Wall Street and claimed that title.
When the project was only in sketches, Walter Chrysler, owner of the Chrysler automobile company became interested in this building and in 1928 gave the green light for construction, paying the $ 15 million budget, a project that began as a small speculative office building and became one of the most admired monuments in New York. Reynolds entrusted the project to William Van Allen, an architect from Brooklyn who, like him, had no experience in high-rise buildings. Reynolds started planning the construction of a skyscraper on a plot of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue New York. In the middle of this decade, the builder and developer William H.
In the 20s, after the First World War, there was a great expansion of the economy in Europe and United States that was accompanied by the need for new buildings.