One Seaport Plaza (New York City, New York) | office building, 1984_construction

 office building, 1984_construction

436-foot, 34-story modernist office building completed in 1984 for Jack Resnick & Sons. Designed by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, it is clad in grey granite, alternating with bands of reflective glass. The main entrance is on Water Street, with a grand, 4-story central opening flanked by two narrower, 3-story openings, each filled with a glass curtain wall with silver metal framing, and doorways on the ground floor.

Just outside of these openings are two notched bays that begin on the 7th floor and continue up to the top. On the east end of the building, and also at the southwest corner, there is a setback at the 4th floor. There are also four notched corners that run all the way up the building, beginning at the 6th floor, providing extra corner offices. On the Front Street side, facing the seaport, the central third rises straight up without any setbacks, thus projecting out slightly from the two outer thirds of the facade. There are additional notched corners on both sides of this central section. The three main sections of this facade have separate, rectangular windows instead of the window bands spanning the rest of the building. The outer two sections are nine windows wide, and the center section has 12 windows. The top of the tower is clad in a darker shade of grey granite, with a mechanical floor set back on two sides.

Lloyds Bank International was the initial primary tenant. The lobby features paintings by Frank Stella. Loading docks and an underground parking garage are accessed from John Street. The ground floor is occupied by TKTS Theater Development Fund, Roast Kitchen, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Superdry Store apparel.