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.

The Art Institute of Chicago has received a $75 million donation for a new building to showcase modern art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The funds — which amount to the single largest naming ...

State-of-the-art, high-speed elevators were added at the building's core and are decorated with geometric artwork in the art deco style. Across its 77-floors, the tower hosts retail space at its ...

“This will be an opportunity for us to show everything the building has the capacity to do,” James Steward, director of the museum, tells The Art Newspaper of the opening celebration. Although ...