200 West Street: Global Financial Company Headquarters

New York

This headquarters building, designed to consolidate the client’s several New York City offices in a single location, derives its unique form from two fundamental considerations: the client’s specific business requirements and the site’s important setting within Lower Manhattan.

Headquarters & Office
Tall Buildings
Urban Districts & Public Spaces

Located directly across Vesey Street from the World Financial Center and just north of the World Trade Center site across West Street, the building is a play between its angular geometries along West and Murray Streets—reflecting the two dominant planning grids of Lower Manhattan—and its sweeping, curved, west facade facing the Hudson River. With a total gross floor area of approximately 2.1 million square feet, the building comprises 45 stories above grade and rises to a height of 740 feet.

Site

Corner of West & Vesey streets, in Lower Manhattan
Components

2,175,000 ft² / 202,000 m² gross area; offices, lobby, trading floors, conference centers, fitness center, cafeteria, executive floors
PCF Services

Architecture, exterior envelope, interior design of primary public spaces, oversight of multiple interiors architects
Sustainability

LEED Gold Certified

The tower’s stainless steel and glass skin, coupled with three major setbacks as the building rises, animate its form while reinforcing its relationship to its surroundings.

The existing mid-block pedestrian walkway, covered by a sculptural glass canopy and lined with retail spaces, has become an important gathering place and pedestrian link between the World Financial Center and the North Residential Neighborhood of Battery Park City.