Chrysler Building on a Foggy Night

A prominent symbol of the American Gothic, the Chrysler Building seen on a foggy night evokes melancholy with stillness and beauty in midtown Manhattan. 



Chrysler Building

The Chrysler Building
 

Chrysler Building Crown On A Rainy And Foggy Night

The Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan is one of the most recognizable structures in Manhattan because of its art deco, terraced crown. There are two sets of lighting in the top spires and decoration, the V-shaped lighting inserts in the steel of the building itself, and the floodlights that are on mast arms directed back at the building. These images were made one rainy, foggy night from 43rd Street just west of Grand Central Terminal Terminal.

Chrysler Building Crown at Night

The Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan is renowned and recognized for its terraced crown. There are two sets of lighting in the top spires and decoration, the V-shaped lighting inserts in the steel of the building itself, and the floodlights that are on mast arms directed back at the building.

View of Manhattan Skyline from the Brooklyn Bridge

Lower Manhattan skyline including the One World Trade Center (extreme right), the lead building of the new World Trade Center Complex under construction.

These are the views of midtown and lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge. The images were made on July 14, 2011.

The CHRYSLER BUILDING Crown

On a clear, pleasant late afternoon before sunset, I made these images of the art deco ornamentation at the crown of the Chrysler Building. In one of the images, the crown is reflected on the glass siding of another building. The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. (From wikipedia): Standing at 319 meters (1,047 ft), the Chrysler Building was designed by architect William Van Alen to house the Chrysler Corporation. The easily recognizable crown is composed of seven radiating terraced arches, Van Alen's design of the crown is a cruciform groin vault constructed into seven concentric members with transitioning set-backs, mounted up one behind each other.[30] The stainless-steel cladding is ribbed and riveted in a radiating pattern with many triangular vaulted windows, transitioning into smaller segments of the seven narrow set-backs of the facade of the terraced crown. The entire crown is clad with silvery "Enduro KA-2" metal, an austenitic stainless steel developed in Germany by Krupp and marketed under the trade name "Nirosta" (a German acronym for nichtrostender Stahl, meaning "rust-proof steel"). As an iconic part of the New York City skyline, the Chrysler Building has been depicted countlessly in almost every medium—film, photography, video games, art, advertising, music, literature, and even fashion, as its use quickly establishes without doubt the location in which the depicted events are occurring.