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=== As icon === The Chrysler Building appears in several films set in New York<ref name="bs20050529">See: * {{cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2005/05/29/in-its-own-little-empire-chrysler-building-is-film-star-too/|title=In its own little empire, Chrysler Building is film star, too|last=Barry|first=Dan|date=May 29, 2005|website=The Baltimore Sun|access-date=November 6, 2017|archive-date=June 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170609221755/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2005-05-29/entertainment/0505280417_1_chrysler-building-empire-state-building-manhattan|url-status=live}} * {{cite web|last=Barry|first=Dan|title=In the Background, but No Bit Player|website=The New York Times|date=May 26, 2005|issn=0362-4331|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/26/garden/in-the-background-but-no-bit-player.html|access-date=November 6, 2017}}</ref> and is widely considered one of the most positively acclaimed buildings in the city.{{sfn|Binder|2006|pp=62β63}}<ref name="jayebee.com" /> A 1996 survey of New York architects revealed it as their favorite, and ''The New York Times'' described it in 2005 as "the single most important emblem of architectural imagery on the New York skyline".<ref name="Lewis 2005" /> In mid-2005, the [[Skyscraper Museum]] in [[Lower Manhattan]] asked 100 architects, builders, critics, engineers, historians, and scholars, among others, to choose their 10 favorites among 25 of the city's towers. The Chrysler Building came in first place, with 90 respondents placing it on their ballots.<ref>{{cite news|title=In a City of Skyscrapers, Which Is the Mightiest of the High? Experts Say It's No Contest|first=David W.|last=Dunlap|issn=0362-4331|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/nyregion/in-city-of-skyscrapers-which-is-the-mightiest-of-the-high.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 1, 2005|access-date=April 8, 2008}}</ref> In 2007, the building ranked ninth among 150 buildings in the AIA's ''[[List of America's Favorite Architecture according to the AIA|List of America's Favorite Architecture]]''.<ref>{{cite web|website=FavoriteArchitecture.org|publisher=AIA|url=http://favoritearchitecture.org/afa150.php|title=List of America's Favorite Architecture|year=2007|access-date=September 27, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510113118/http://favoritearchitecture.org/afa150.php|archive-date=May 10, 2011}}</ref> The Chrysler Building is widely heralded as an Art Deco icon. ''[[Fodor's]] New York City 2010'' described the building as being "one of the great art deco masterpieces"{{sfn|Hart|2009|p=123}} which "wins many a New Yorker's vote for the city's most iconic and beloved skyscraper".{{sfn|Hart|2009|p=129}} ''Frommer's'' states that the Chrysler was "one of the most impressive Art Deco buildings ever constructed".<ref name="frommers">{{cite web|title=Chrysler Building|website=Frommer's Travel Guides|url=http://www.frommers.com/destinations/new-york-city/attractions/chrysler-building|access-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref> ''[[Insight Guides]]''{{'}} 2016 edition maintains that the Chrysler Building is considered among the city's "most beautiful" buildings.<ref>{{cite book|title=Insight Guides: Explore New York|publisher=APA|series=Insight Explore Guides|year=2014|isbn=978-1-78005-703-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pKwxBgAAQBAJ|access-date=November 8, 2017}}</ref> Its distinctive profile has inspired similar skyscrapers worldwide, including [[One Liberty Place]] in [[Philadelphia]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Goldberger|first=Paul|issn=0362-4331|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/15/arts/architecture-view-giving-new-life-to-philadelphia-s-skyline.html|title=Giving New Life to Philadelphia's Skyline|quote=The tower resembles nothing so much as the Chrysler Building...|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 15, 1987|access-date=September 27, 2010}}</ref> [[Two Prudential Plaza]] in [[Chicago]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Gapp|first=Paul|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-12-23-9004150913-story.html|title=Too Prudent|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=December 23, 1990|access-date=March 17, 2021}}</ref> and the [[Al Kazim Towers]] in [[Dubai]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |publisher=National Engineering Bureau |entry=Al Kazim Towers; overview with Media City Buildings |encyclopedia=ART on FILE: Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design and Public Art |jstor=community.14740821|title=Al Kazim Towers; overview with Media City Buildings |author=National Engineering Bureau}}</ref> In addition, the [[New York-New York Hotel and Casino]] in [[Paradise, Nevada]], contains the "Chrysler Tower",<ref>{{cite web |title=New York-New York |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/122180/new-york-new-york-las-vegas-nv-usa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321211318/http://www.emporis.com/buildings/122180/new-york-new-york-las-vegas-nv-usa |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 21, 2015 |website=Emporis |access-date=March 23, 2022}}</ref> a replica of the Chrysler Building measuring 35 or 40 stories tall.<ref name="nyt-1997-01-15">{{Cite news|last=Goldberger|first=Paul|date=January 15, 1997|title=New York-New York, It's a Las Vegas Town|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/15/nyregion/new-york-new-york-it-s-a-las-vegas-town.html|access-date=August 18, 2022|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=New York Looms Large in Las Vegas | website=Chicago Tribune | date=January 3, 1997 | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-01-03-9701040154-story.html | access-date=August 19, 2022}}</ref> A portion of the hotel's interior was also designed to resemble the Chrysler Building's interior.<ref name="nyt-1997-01-15" />
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