Just a estimate
what’s inside the
chrysler building and its structure
a short story about the chrysler
building chrysler building is a popular
building with the art deco style
located at the intersection of and
street and lexington avenue in new york
city the building is constructed by
walter chrysler who is also the founder
of chrysler automobile company
walter chrysler wanted to build the
tallest building in the world to be his
company’s headquarter and yeah he made it
the construction was completed in with a height of
feet from the ground to the tip of the spire
the chrysler building was the tallest
building in the world but only for
months and later was surpassed by the
empire state building
total floor count is
let’s take a look at what inside those
floors
this is the lobby the lobby is open to
the public it has three main public
entrances
a service entrance and a private
entrance
majority of the space in the lobby is
for retail the rest of the building
above the lobbies is leased to
businesses and not accessible to
tourists let’s take a look inside the
floor four
this is one of the largest floors
the center space for elevator and
utility rooms
the surrounding area is for common
office desks private offices and
conference rooms move up to floor
as we move up higher the floor gets
smaller
this floor has mainly private offices
move up to floor
this floor is near the top of the crown
the space here gets even smaller
and this floor has a shape
which looks like a flower
let’s take a look at the structure of
this is the core of the building
inside the core there are elevators
cluster into four banks each bank serve
different floors within the building
there are also multiple emergency stack
cases
the center staircase goes straight all
the way from the bottom to the top
the building structure combines brick
and steel approximately three million
eight hundred twenty six thousand bricks
were manually laid together with a steel
frame
the chrysler building is considered as
one of the leading example of art deco
architecture
at the four corners of the st floor
are grazed with eagles
and on the st floor’s corners there
are wing replicas of the chrysler
radio caps
and also there are cartwheel patterns on
the wall
the building is distinctive due to a
terrorist crown made of stainless steel
cladding the cladding was decorated in a
shape like the rays of the sun with many
triangular vaulted windows reminiscent
of the spokes of a wheel
now you can see there’s so many car
parts in the design of the building
