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200 West Street
200 West Street is the global headquarters of the Goldman Sachs investment banking firm in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building is a 749-foot-tall (228 m), 44-story building located on West Street, between Vesey and Murray Streets in Lower Manhattan. It is adjacent to Brookfield Place and the Conrad Hotel, the Verizon Building, and the World Trade Center. It is the only office building in Battery Park City north of Brookfield Place, and it is also the tallest building located within Battery Park City.
The skyscraper was designed by Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with Adamson Associates Architects. Construction commenced in 2005 after New York City and state government officials gave Goldman Sachs large subsidies to fund the project. There were several incidents during construction, including a falling load that paralyzed an architect as well as a falling pane of glass. Workers started moving into 200 West Street in late 2009 and the project was completed the next year at a cost of $2.1 billion. The building received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification.
200 West Street is in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building is on the western side of West Street between Murray Street to the north and Vesey Street to the south. It is adjacent to the Conrad Hotel to the west. 200 West Street is directly across from 200 Vesey Street and 250 Vesey Street, both within Brookfield Place (formerly the World Financial Center), to the south. Other nearby buildings include One World Trade Center to the southeast, the Verizon Building to the east, and 111 Murray Street to the northeast. 200 West Street is Battery Park City's only office building north of Brookfield Place.
200 West Street was designed by Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with Adamson Associates Architects, for investment bank Goldman Sachs. Numerous other firms were hired to design various aspects of the building. According to Goldman Sachs' real estate executive Timur Galen, a variety of new and experienced companies was chosen to highlight each company's different skill sets. The main contractor was the Tishman Construction Corporation. According to The New York Times, 200 West Street is 43 stories and 739 feet (225 m) high, while according to Emporis, it is 44 stories and 749 feet (228 m) high. The building contains about 2,100,000 square feet (200,000 m2) of interior space.
200 West Street contains a bulky base and a slab-like tower. The southern end of the building is within a zoning lot that prevents that portion of the structure from rising above 140 feet (43 m). The building contains three setbacks on higher floors.
The facade is made of glass and stainless steel. The western facade, facing the Hudson River, contains a curve. The curved western facade was a result of zoning restrictions, which mandated that a sightline of the Hudson River from the World Financial Center had to be preserved. Cobb convinced Goldman Sachs officials that a curve would allow the office space to be arranged more efficiently, in contrast with a diagonal slice. In addition, the facade contains incisions that parallel the angles of Murray Street to the north and Vesey Street to the south.
The interior superstructure was designed by Guy Nordenson and Associates. At the base of the building, the columns are arranged in a 40-by-60-foot (12 by 18 m) grid. To create an open space for all of the trading floors, the building was developed with large trusses and fewer columns. In the upper stories, the columns around the perimeter are spaced 20 feet (6.1 m) apart at their centers. The southern facade has diagonal beams that extend several stories high, creating an outrigger frame.
Between the building and the Conrad New York hotel to its west is a covered pedestrian walkway. The covered walkway is nicknamed "Goldman Alley", though it is officially named the North End Way. The alley measures 30 feet (9.1 m) wide and contains numerous stores and restaurants. The walkway already existed before the building's construction, but as part of the building's construction, it received a slanted 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m2) glass and metal canopy designed by Preston Scott Cohen. In 2012, Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times characterized the space as "one of the best new works of architecture in New York".
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200 West Street
200 West Street is the global headquarters of the Goldman Sachs investment banking firm in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building is a 749-foot-tall (228 m), 44-story building located on West Street, between Vesey and Murray Streets in Lower Manhattan. It is adjacent to Brookfield Place and the Conrad Hotel, the Verizon Building, and the World Trade Center. It is the only office building in Battery Park City north of Brookfield Place, and it is also the tallest building located within Battery Park City.
The skyscraper was designed by Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with Adamson Associates Architects. Construction commenced in 2005 after New York City and state government officials gave Goldman Sachs large subsidies to fund the project. There were several incidents during construction, including a falling load that paralyzed an architect as well as a falling pane of glass. Workers started moving into 200 West Street in late 2009 and the project was completed the next year at a cost of $2.1 billion. The building received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification.
200 West Street is in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building is on the western side of West Street between Murray Street to the north and Vesey Street to the south. It is adjacent to the Conrad Hotel to the west. 200 West Street is directly across from 200 Vesey Street and 250 Vesey Street, both within Brookfield Place (formerly the World Financial Center), to the south. Other nearby buildings include One World Trade Center to the southeast, the Verizon Building to the east, and 111 Murray Street to the northeast. 200 West Street is Battery Park City's only office building north of Brookfield Place.
200 West Street was designed by Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with Adamson Associates Architects, for investment bank Goldman Sachs. Numerous other firms were hired to design various aspects of the building. According to Goldman Sachs' real estate executive Timur Galen, a variety of new and experienced companies was chosen to highlight each company's different skill sets. The main contractor was the Tishman Construction Corporation. According to The New York Times, 200 West Street is 43 stories and 739 feet (225 m) high, while according to Emporis, it is 44 stories and 749 feet (228 m) high. The building contains about 2,100,000 square feet (200,000 m2) of interior space.
200 West Street contains a bulky base and a slab-like tower. The southern end of the building is within a zoning lot that prevents that portion of the structure from rising above 140 feet (43 m). The building contains three setbacks on higher floors.
The facade is made of glass and stainless steel. The western facade, facing the Hudson River, contains a curve. The curved western facade was a result of zoning restrictions, which mandated that a sightline of the Hudson River from the World Financial Center had to be preserved. Cobb convinced Goldman Sachs officials that a curve would allow the office space to be arranged more efficiently, in contrast with a diagonal slice. In addition, the facade contains incisions that parallel the angles of Murray Street to the north and Vesey Street to the south.
The interior superstructure was designed by Guy Nordenson and Associates. At the base of the building, the columns are arranged in a 40-by-60-foot (12 by 18 m) grid. To create an open space for all of the trading floors, the building was developed with large trusses and fewer columns. In the upper stories, the columns around the perimeter are spaced 20 feet (6.1 m) apart at their centers. The southern facade has diagonal beams that extend several stories high, creating an outrigger frame.
Between the building and the Conrad New York hotel to its west is a covered pedestrian walkway. The covered walkway is nicknamed "Goldman Alley", though it is officially named the North End Way. The alley measures 30 feet (9.1 m) wide and contains numerous stores and restaurants. The walkway already existed before the building's construction, but as part of the building's construction, it received a slanted 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m2) glass and metal canopy designed by Preston Scott Cohen. In 2012, Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times characterized the space as "one of the best new works of architecture in New York".