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What is Art Deco?

Architecture: what was different?People used symmetric shapes, rounded corners to make them look like machines.

Why NY important for art deco buildingsManhattan was running out of room, so they made very tall buildings (such as Empire state, Chrysler building, Rockefeller centre, etc) and made the “metropolis of tomorrow”.

Chrysler BuildingIn the summer of 1929, a ”race for the sky “happened on the island Manhattan. A man named Chrysler was coming second until he put a small spire on to the top of his building. It became the Chrysler Builder and was the tallest building in the world. It was 318 m tall, which is 18 m taller than the Eureka Tower. But the Empire State Building became the tallest after another 4 months. The Chrysler building is the most decorated building in the world. Mr Chrysler wanted his building to look like his cars.

Fast Fact:

more than 1200 km of Electrical conductor wire was used in the construction of the sky scraper. That’s as long as the distance from Melbourne to Port Macquarie!

Empire State BuildingIt was built during the depression and became the world’s tallest office building in the world. It had 3000 workers on the job, and took a year and 45 days .(including Sundays and holidays .) the design was changed 16 times. It was made of 60000 tons of steel

Fast Fact:

in 1945 , a B-25 bomber on its way to Newark airport in new jersey crashed into the 7th floor of the Empire state building. Amazingly, the building only suffered minor damage. It now stands as the New York land mark .

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