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Chrysler Building

 

Chrysler Building

The 77-story building was the tallest in the world for a brief period of time before the Empire State Building quickly surpassed it, but the Chrysler Building remains the world’s tallest steel-supported brick building in the world today.

See more buildings, bridges, and innovations from the 1930s in our 1930s timeline, part of our yearlong celebration of AISC's Centennial!