Trylons & East...
Chrysler Trylons (2001) and Chrysler East (1952 w/ redux 1999) - NYC - Architect Philip Johnson for Chrysler Trylons and Re-cladding of Chrysler East (orig architect of Chrysler East Reinhard, Hofmeister & Walquist)
CHRYSLER EAST - 432-foot, 32-story modernist office building completed in 1952. Designed by Reinhard, Hofmeister & Walquist, it was originally clad in white brick, but was re-clad in 1999 to a design by Philip Johnson, consisting of a curtain wall of grey-green glass with thin aluminum mullions. Formerly known as the Calyon Building and the Kent Building, it is now part of a full-block complex with a single owner, anchored on the west by the Chrysler Building.
CHRYSLER TRYLONS - 2-story retail complex the two buildings of the Chrysler Center, completed in 2001 known as The Chrysler Trylons. Designed by Philip Johnson, it consists of an east and west section of two floors clad in grey granite blocks, joined in the middle by a jagged grouping of three steep glass pyramids. The shards are pinstriped by stainless-steel framing, and the glass is slightly blue-tinted, and the crazy angled are intended to reflect the top of the Chrysler Building. The intersecting three-sided pyramids reach 57 feet, 68 feet and 73 feet high, each differently angled.
Trylons & East...
Chrysler Trylons (2001) and Chrysler East (1952 w/ redux 1999) - NYC - Architect Philip Johnson for Chrysler Trylons and Re-cladding of Chrysler East (orig architect of Chrysler East Reinhard, Hofmeister & Walquist)
CHRYSLER EAST - 432-foot, 32-story modernist office building completed in 1952. Designed by Reinhard, Hofmeister & Walquist, it was originally clad in white brick, but was re-clad in 1999 to a design by Philip Johnson, consisting of a curtain wall of grey-green glass with thin aluminum mullions. Formerly known as the Calyon Building and the Kent Building, it is now part of a full-block complex with a single owner, anchored on the west by the Chrysler Building.
CHRYSLER TRYLONS - 2-story retail complex the two buildings of the Chrysler Center, completed in 2001 known as The Chrysler Trylons. Designed by Philip Johnson, it consists of an east and west section of two floors clad in grey granite blocks, joined in the middle by a jagged grouping of three steep glass pyramids. The shards are pinstriped by stainless-steel framing, and the glass is slightly blue-tinted, and the crazy angled are intended to reflect the top of the Chrysler Building. The intersecting three-sided pyramids reach 57 feet, 68 feet and 73 feet high, each differently angled.