60 Wall Street (New York City, New York)

745-foot, 56-story Postmodern office building completed in 1989. Designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates for J. P. Morgan Bank, it is a modern homage to Greek-revival and Neo-Classical forms. The great girth of the tower, especially compared with the neighboring spires of the 1920s, came from the desire for large office floor plans and for expansive column-free trading floors.

The massive 4-story base is clad in large blocks of grey granite and dark-tinted glass. The lower three floors are recessed behind an arcade of eight paired octagonal columns with shared bases.The 4th floor is divided into nine wide bays of recessed windows, with six panes in each bay, except for the center bay, which has nine. A broad cornice caps the base. The floor above is transitional, somewhat set back, and broken into left and right halves by a space above the central entrance that sets all the way back to the tower portion. Each half is topped by a stone cornice and has 11 recessed, vertical windows, with cross-hatched screens.

The main tower is clad in a curtain wall of blue-silver glass, with the slightly projecting end sections on each of the four facades having banded light-grey granite spandrels at each floor. The corners are faceted, providing more corner offices. The top seven floors have paired, faceted columns of glass and stone at each double corner, echoing the stone columns at the base. A stone cornice tops each facade, above which rises a cut-pyramid roof of dark grey-green metal. In 2012, a roof-mounted solar photovoltaic systems was installed. The array will reduce the Bank’s electricity consumption from the grid and will decrease carbon emissions by 100 metric tons per year.

Deutsche Bank bought the building in 2001 for $600 million, and made it their headquarters. Post 9/11, due to the loss of the 130 Liberty Street Deutsche Bank building in the terrorist attack, Deutsche Bank moved more than 4,500 of its personnel into this building. There are two floors for representative meetings, 20 and 47. Deutsche Bank owned the building, until it was sold in a sale-and-leaseback agreement to a private party for over $1.2 billion.

Today 60 Wall Street is surrounded by slender pre-World War II towers, such as the American International Building and 20 Exchange Place, making a prominent impact on the Lower Manhattan skyline.

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