This is not Gossip Girl nor Sex and the City

The Chrysler Building

The Chrysler Building is one of my favorites and I have many favorite building in New York City, an icon that appears in the opening credits of TV shows and movies. 

I studied architecture, interiors at the College of Architecture at Auburn University and I am fascinated by the vocabulary of architecture.

Classical architecture is about proportion to the human. Contemporary architecture during the Art Deco period is about motion, it is about energy. 

The concept of architecture we understand is more than just shelter. 

Within different cultures architecture tells the story of the place it exists. 

Cars, cars, cars, drive the skyline of this great city in 1930.

The featured ornamentation, they are not gargoyles lIke one might find in history, they are not warding off evil.. They are hood ornaments, and design features of the Chrysler automobiles. 

Imagine yourself owning a Chrysler car.. That hood ornament defines status. The striving to become..  The American dream. 

The Chrysler Building erected during the Great Depression is the difference between the haves and have nots during a very difficult period of American history.  

What it, The Chrysler Building represents within the record of architecture, it holds a prestigious right as the ‘Tallest building in the world because of that spire.” This is a story for another time. 

Join me at One Token Tours and I will share with you which building surpassed the Eiffel Tower first.