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Architecture
Haskell, Douglas | October 22, 1930 issue

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The article focuses on the Chrysler Building in New York. No wonder there are those who defend it ardently as a masterpiece, and others who accuse it dolefully of a "fake modernism." It is half of each. Thus, at the beginning of what is going to be a metal era, it plunges forward with the first spire of stainless steel and heaped up and up like a chorus girl's fluffy helmet Then there are the windows. Van Alen, the architecture of the building, who three or four years ago took a bold step with windows. Here the windows are remarkably fine.

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ARCHITECTURE; CHRYSLER Building (New York, N.Y.); WINDOWS; ALEN, Van; NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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