Hyatt Centric Wall Street New York Hotel & Residences

 hotel, condominium, 1987_construction, postmodern (architecture)

470-foot, 36-story modernist hotel and residential building completed in 1987 as an office building for the Barclays Bank. Designed by Welton Becket & Associates, is has four chamfered corners. The 3-story base is clad in granite, with arcades of squared columns fronting the double-height lobby. The main entrance is at the center of the Wall Street facade, set below a recessed, double-height round-arch adorned with a large, bronze eagle. The upper floors have piers (and outer spandrels) clad in rose brick, separating bays of double windows (with single windows bordering each chamfered corner). The spandrel panels in the field of each facade are brown metal. Near the top of the building are a series of setbacks, reducing the width of each facade while increasing the width of the angled corners. At the crown, the piers are strongly articulated and project out. It was built on what was the site of a slave auction block in the 18th century.

75 Wall formerly served as the headquarters of Barclays Bank and JPMorgan Chase. In 2008 the building was converted into 350 units of residential condominiums in the upper 24 stories above the 250-room Andaz Wall Street Hotel, designed by the Rockwell Group. The hotel was renamed the Hyatt Centric in 2022.

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