200 West Street

This international investment bank headquarters is a 45-story mixed use building consolidating the firm’s New York campus into one location. The building accommodates a 350-seat auditorium, 6 trading floors, a conference floor, a sky lobby, a fitness floor, 29 office floors, and 3 executive office floors. The architecture was developed with a sensitivity to the surrounding buildings and the planning desires of Battery Park City. The height of the podium, the geometry of the bustle, and the curve of the west face preserve the site lines to the west.

The exterior tower columns are located 20ft on center, a pattern that harmonizes both the interior planning and exterior curtain wall and utilizes the columns in moment frame. Multistory diagonal members inside the south facade provide an “outrigger” brace frame that counteracts the eccentric cores’ tendency to torque. At the bustle and podium levels, the columns transfer out from the west and south face to a 40ft by 60ft grid below, maintaining optimal interior planning for trading capacity and shifting the lateral system to an exterior braced frame.