60 Wall Street
New York, USA

HEIGHT: 227m/745 feet
FLOORS: 55 floors
COMPLETION: 1989
ARCHITECT: Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates

was built in 1988-1989 as the new headquarters building for the J. P. Morgan Bank.
The massive facade of this 227 m tall, 50-storey neo-Classical building is horizontally striped in alternating bands of dark glass and white stone. The roof, in the shape of a cut pyramid, is "supported" by faceted corner pilasters topped with twin columns just underneath the roof corners.

The building's large size and bulk of 158,000 m² was enabled by a transfer of air-rights across the street, from the Citibank at 55 Wall Street.

There is a colonnade at the street level and the vast public arcade where columns support a gold-toned mosaic ceiling with recessed lattices, the column capital fans illuminated by hidden lights.

The building was obtained by Deutsche Bank in 2001 for $600 million, but relocated 4,500 more of its personnel there only after being unable to find buyers in the post-9/11 downturn.

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nice looking building but the roof screams for a crown or spire!!!...aren't these the same architects who designed Atlanta's Bank of America tower...???.....8/10.

8.5/10

Great pics! The facade is nice and crisp, and I like the ornamentation at the top. It adds diversity to the style of its surroundings.

it's ok. looks good around ny's other highrises.

7.5/10

The facade is just right but I don't like the roof which spoils it a bit.

7.5/10

btw luckily we're not rating interiors because that one's pretty nasty...

Looks very good
8/10

btw luckily we're not rating interiors because that one's pretty nasty...

Hehe, yea, it's a pretty bad photo though. The lobby is quite funky and changes with each owner of the building (Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan etc.). At one point it was all white with aluminum palm trees...... that would have been the cocaine 80's!

I don't think this building fits too well in the financial district, but the collumned areas at the top are novel and were built to increase rents for "corner offices". It could have been just another box though, for that I'll give it a 7.5 ;)

nice! I like thee columns

8.5/10 - I like the sleek facade; it really dances with the light, and there's a good contrast between glass and stone. The columns at the top work very well, and help pull everything together, since they echo the columns along the base. And the indentations at the corners save it from being boxy.

My biggest quibble is the roof, which doesn't seem to fit the rest of the building - they should have done something with a series of smaller setbacks, and a setback or two near the street might have worked well too.

Good 8

A great building, it fits in well with American International, the roof is well done, and the glass and columns look fine too.

8.5/10

For some reason i dont like the density around it. It doesnt get any shine. But i like the design so i give it an 8.:D

a little boxy, but nice design..
7/10

The design just doesn't work well with me. I have to give it a 5.5.

Too busy in parts where not necessary, yet too simplified where it could have taken in a bit more detail. Doesn't at all look its full height. Some nice materials.

7

My fav in NYC !

He, I didn't knew that one!

It looks well, 7/10

In some of those pics it doesn't look like it fits in too well. I'm not a big fan of it, but it is kinda interesting to look at... ->7/10

Vile. Incoherent. 5/10.

They could have left out those silly columns at the top...I don't like postmodernism in skyscrapers. 5.5/10

i like the facade. the top spoils my view of it.
i gave it a 6.5!

One of the best in Lower Manhatten.And there are so many great towers there! 8.5/10

7. the top part looks cool:cool: but the tower is quite an "outcast" compared to the classics surrounding it

Ill-proportioned and chunky. Looks blocky despite the detailing. 4

Well, someone tried awfully hard here to give us a lively fassade. This is laudable in principle, but this one looks too fussy, worked over just a tad too much. 6.5

Not horrible for an 80's building. But I don't like the roof. 6/10

8 A very nice building with an absurd roof... I quite like the use of glass... and especially those glass columns near the top... nice shape to this one

I just noticed this......

Monterrey, Mexico has a 60 Wall Street twin! Anyone have a better pic or know the name/height of it?

http://www.agimmobilier.com/resource-center/images/Monterrey/Monterrey-SanPedro-sm.jpg

I don't like this as much as I used to, especially now that I've seen its orange interior. 6/10

7/10

I would have preferred it some distance away from chrysler...it spoilt the other beauty it makes itself a lousy companion. 7/10.

Originally posted by Bobdreamz

nice looking building but the roof screams for a crown or spire!!!...aren't these the same architects who designed Atlanta's Bank of America tower...???.....8/10.
yep, i like this one! 10

It's too bulky, it would have looked better if it had a "real" pyramid-roof...but it's tall, though. 7.5/10

average post modern try 7/10

facade: ok
form: ok
points: 8

8.5/10



I like it

Typical "postmodern" eighties rubbish.

3/10

Fits better with the older buildings surrounding it than most modern buildings would. 8.5/10

would have preferred it some distance away from chrysler...it spoilt the other beauty it makes itself a lousy companion. 7/10.


Huawei... it's like 3 miles from Chrysler.

7/10

8/10
like it!!

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Originally posted by enzo

I just noticed this......

Monterrey, Mexico has a 60 Wall Street twin! Anyone have a better pic or know the name/height of it?

http://www.agimmobilier.com/resource-center/images/Monterrey/Monterrey-SanPedro-sm.jpg

It's name is Torre Comercial Ámerica

Heights :Roof 128.0 mt
Construction Dates: Finished: 1991
Floor Count: 30
Floor Area: 22,640 m²

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this building's nice- the best postmodern example in lower manhattan. but the top of the roof's rather lame. everything else about it's cool though.

9

Wow! Its twin rocks!:)

4.5/10

Classical looking. The octagonal columns at the top are nice. . . 8/10

I don't know it just doesn't do much for me and looks kind of weird to me and not that good in NYC. It's not much one of my type's either mostly because of the roof and don't like the look the otagonal windows at the top give it but I thinks it's colour scheme is right for the building. 4.5/10

8/10

ugly building 4/10

8.5/10
Cool facade and shape. Love the columns at the top.

Postmodern shit, not my cup of tea. 5/10

I really like this building. 9.0!

7/10

7.5

ok, but the lobby is hideous. it looks like the architect was trying to five you the feeling as if you were in some S. American country or some place with a warm climate with the palm trees. It failed horribly, besides this is Wall St. NYC not Miami.

7/10

9.5/10 sexy

This building is f***ing genius! The facade and crown rock the house. I give it a Perfect 10/10. :D

6/10

6/10

5/10

Too chinese and fat for my taste.Te wrecking ball would be good for this building :colgate:

^chinese :lol:
8
nice tower, I see it as a filler, but fills the skyline good

7.5/10

8.5.

8.5/10.

8/10

bulky, 6.5/10

Ugly postmodernism. I don't like the colours. 5/10

7/10

I worked on Wall St. for many years -- I dreaded passing this building every single day. There is a subway entrance in the lobby -- the lobby is such an eyesore -- trellice work with mirrors behind it... gag!

LOVE this building, in real life the lobby is gorgeous and breathtaking!

Superb design- post modernism at its best!

it´s lovely 10/10

Massive and attractive. 9/10.

NY skyscrapers are just beyond

This is a nice building. The modern Romanesque columns at the top give it a very nice touch. 8.0

Tacky, looks like it belongs to Vegas. 5

6/10

7/10

Nice looking building

A rather pretentious design that doesn't quite make it.
The top proportions are completely disgracious. I hate those columns.
That's too bad because the lower-middle parts are very nice with a beautiful cladding and an impressive lobby entrance.
Oh well.
5.

i don't like the top... 6.5/10

5.5/10 ;)

7.5/10

Love this building since the day it opened. Its really big but fsits right in in tis little enclave on the super narrow streets of lower manhattan. It works being half hidden away. If it had been in midtown manhattan it would have a huge plaza im sure and a large lobby and i might not like it as much. Is works for me as a hidden surprise you find when exploring wall st and all the other windy downtown roads. I love the design and the coloumns and the roof. Its really tall but you dont realize it cause its flanked by taller ones, trump blg, chase manhattan, Am International. But it looks so cool.

10/10

bulky tower in Lower Manhattan s nice and chubby. The top makes it look like the older ones down the street. 7/10

6/10

6/10

5/10

http://www.wirednewyork.com/skyscrapers/40wall/wall40.jpg

Is that a garden on its top?

Poor design for this location, looks crowded out 6/10

8/10

7/10 :)

6,5/10

7/10

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8/10

Nice looking building indeed 8/10

nice 8.5/10

6.5 - 7/10

8.5/10

4.5

7/10

8/10

8/10

5 / 10

6.5/10

Very modern yet it blends in witht he older architecure 8/10

6/10

i like its glass and it has pretty edges too. 8/10

10. great!

8.5/10
dazzling design

One of the ugliest of NYC. It´s bulky, grotesque, pretentious and the pillars are ridiculous. But most of all, it killed part of the lower Manhattan skyline by being built right in the middle of the classic trio 20 Exchange, 40 Wall and American International. The soaring elegant Art Deco jewel that is American International once stood tall as one of the New York highlights and is now overwhelmed by this monster. The biggest mistake since the PanAm building.

7/10

It's okay.. but it's not very attractive.

i like it! 9/10

Nice one but the top doesn't make it for me. 8.0

7/10

Not bad, a 6,5 out of 10.

8.5/10

8/10

7/10

4/10

6/10

8,5/10

4/10

elegant 9.5/10

7.5/10 not bad!

I really don't like this one. I know it was probably built for office space, but that doesn't excuse the fact that it's ugly- 5/10.

7/10

3/10

7/10

8!

Could use some more detailing but I've always liked this one
7/10

6.5

6/10

7.5/10

Like it 7.5/10

6,5/10

awesome 9/10

9/10

Nice design!!

9/10

I remember that projects are also coming into existence up to given surroundings, the neighbourhood. I understand the modern reference to the old fashion in this case with the roof:)

8/10

6.5

9.5/10

8/10

omg i love this skyscraper...
9/10

3,5/10

9/10

6/10

Nice top...

7.0/10

3.5/10

7.5/10

classic, interesting details. 8/10.

8. Good building. Regards.

8/10

I voted 8/10 the design is fairly classic, there are only a few buildings with materials like this.

Nice building 8/10

8.5/10

One of my favorites in NYC. Although it could benefit from a spire, the roof isn't blaring ugliness from a lack of one.

8/10

Classic and modern at the same time. I just don't agee in the roof height (too high in my opinion).

9/10

8/10

8.5

7/10

Indispensable part of the Manhattan skyline, but as a single building not too great. 7/10

9.5/10

I like it.. alot... 9/10

7/10

7/10

8/10

7.5/10. I wish it were taller. But still a good looking building.

7/10

8.5/10

7/10

The corner offices on the top floors must me amazing though!

8/10 Classic!

8/10

8/10

8/10

8/10

6/10

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7,5/10
Great building. Don't know why everyone is talking so much about the overrated "Dubai style architecture". When this building (one of many others in same style from that period) was build in 1989, Dubai only had a few lowrises, whick mostly looked like commieblocks.

Like this shows: http://www.overseaspropertymall.com/trends/irish-overseas-property-market/if-you-build-it-they-will-come/

NEW YORK RULES FOREVER :)

Good, 9.5/10

7/10

8/10

8/10

7/10

Generic design. 4/10

8/10

8/10.

10/10