Many Art Deco buildings are indeed skyscrapers that tower above other ... with a winged figure statue and flanked by glistening gold light fixtures, flag poles, and lettering, is another elegant ...

Our next Art Deco Centenary profile looks at American architect Raymond Hood, whose knack for skyscrapers led to him being branded the "brilliant bad boy of architecture". Hood's buildings include ...

The skyscraper is the most well-known type of Art Deco architecture. The style was especially successful in New York City where the classic Art Deco landmarks—the Chrysler Building, the Empire ...

The unique 1,046-feet art deco skyscraper was built in 1930 at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Since then, the building has become one of the symbols of New York.

Manhattan's art deco skyscrapers "dazzle, entertain, amaze," Frank Lloyd Wright once noted. But many other U.S. cities have spectacular examples of this 1920s-1930s style, with a mix of striking ...