40 Fulton Street

 office building, 1986_construction, postmodern (architecture)

380-foot, 29-story postmodern office building completed in 1986. Designed by Fox & Fowle, it is clad in red brick, sitting on a black granite water table. The ground floor consists of an arcade of segmental-arches on both of the main facades. Each arch has a limestone keystone, and brick voussoirs, with banding on the brick piers. There are seven bays on Pearl Street, and six bays on Fulton Street. Below the three northern arches on Fulton, the ground floor is deeply recessed behind the piers, creating a vestibule with the main building entrance. Each of the piers around the entrance is ornamented with a metal and glass light fixture. The 2nd floor has shorter segmental-arches, also with keystones and brick voussoirs, and stone sills.

On the floors above, the bays are rectangular, and have three windows joined by stone sills. There is an open corner with recessed windows at the 4th floor; a single, black, round column supports the corner. There are setbacks at the next two floors (beginning two bays back on Fulton, and three bays back on Pearl), each with the same corner treatment, completing the 6-story base. On Fulton Street, the 2nd bay from the north (the center entrance bay) has double-height openings on the 3rd-4th and 5th-6th floors, with slightly projecting, angled windows. There is a black metal spandrel in the center flanked by two glass spandrels between the floors. This configuration of double-height openings with metal and glass spandrels between angled windows continues on the upper tower portion.

The upper tower is slightly set back from the base on the east and south sides. On either side of the column of angled windows facing Fulton Street, the facade alternates bands of red brick and glass. Both ends have open corners with wrap-around windows, which continue on a series of sawtooth edges, providing three additional corners at the intersection of Pearl and Fulton. On the north elevation and the flat sections of the south elevation, the windows bands are interrupted by brick piers that slightly recess from the horizontal brick bands. The rear, west-facing wall is mostly blank brick, with a single columns of windows on the right side next to the wrap-around windows from the open corner. On the south facade, each of the sawtooth facets ends in a setback near the top. The building is crowned by a tall brick mechanical floor, with one last double-height angled bay opening facing east. The ground floor is occupied by a TD Bank branch.