The Chrysler Building became the world's first supertall skyscraper. Photo by Reinhold Möller. The 319-metre-tall skyscraper was conceived by car-industry titan Chrysler in 1928 to become the ...

The 1,046-foot-tall Chrysler Building, completed in May of 1930, was the pinnacle of both the then-unnamed Art Deco period and the skyscraper boom that rapidly transformed New York City’s skyline.

At the Empire State Building, on a roof of Madison Square Garden and on a terrace adjacent to the Chrysler Building, thousands of veritable worker bees have been turning nectar into honey.

As our Art Deco Centenary series gets underway, we spotlight the Chrysler Building in New York – one of America's first art ...