Handmade and hand-painted on thin Thai paper. 25" w x 37" H. Unframed. The Chanin Building, also known as 122 East 42nd Street, is a 56-story office skyscraper in Midtown. It is on the southwest corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, near Grand Central Terminal. The building is named for Irwin S. Chanin, its developer. The structure was designed in the Art Deco style by John Sloan and T. Markoe Robertson of the firm Sloan & Robertson, with the assistance of Chanin’s architect Jacques Delamarre. It incorporates architectural sculpture by Rene Paul Chambellan, as well as a facade of brick and terracotta. The skyscraper reaches 680 feet with a 649-foot-tall roof topped by a 31-foot spire. The Chanin Building was constructed in 1927–1929 on the site of a warehouse, one of the last remaining undeveloped sites around Grand Central Terminal.