Floors Of The Chrysler Building

The chrysler building has 77 floors soaring 1048 feet high in midtown east.

Floors of the chrysler building.

The chrysler building and the empire state building. The highest floor in the chrysler building is 77th floor at 858 ft high and the highest occupied floor is at 828 ft. The plans entailed a ground floor pedestrian arcade a facade of stone below the fifth floor a brick and terracotta facade above and a three story observation dome with bronze and glass at the top. The building located at 405 lexington ave.

Chrysler s initial plans for the building were similar to reynolds s but with the 808 foot building having 68 floors instead of 67. The building contains a 122 ft spire its roof height is 925 ft 282 meters which is measured to the bottom of the spire from the ground. The building is referenced in the broadway musical annie when miss hannigan tells the orphans to clean the floors until they shine like the top of the chrysler building the musical is set during the great depression and the chrysler building would have been a relatively recent addition to new york. It opened with 300 members of new york city s business elite.

Containing 29961 tons of steel 3 826 000 bricks and nearly 5 000 windows this art deco skyscraper may not be the tallest but it is one of the most recognized due to its crescent shaped spire.