rendering, lots of information about the proposed New York Stock Exchange Tower at http://www.geocities.com/nyskyscrapers/downtown.html

• ID# 198.2 (reply to #198.1) - 3 June 2001
  The development of the Big One will be indeed an interesting white knuckle ride; even the otherwise stubborn economy in the NYC area has started to follow the statewide trend of slowing job growth (and even increases in unemployment) in other parts of the US. Combine with that the dispersing/relocating of operations by many major corporations from Manhattan (like MetLife to Queens) and the mid/late-decade may see a somewhat different office market.
  Heck, where does that trend of extra-tall, monochromatic slabs stem from? A new wave of Internationalism -- Post-Postmodernism? ;^) And the flashy street-level ad displays? On tight-lip, honourable Wall Street?? ED.
  • ID# 198.3 (reply to #198.2)
    From: Wes - 6 July 2001

    I work at SOM, New York. The renderings of the NYSE building that you see here online do not do this building justice. It happens to be a very beautiful building with an identity all it's own. SOM's signature style is Modernism. After all, we did start the Modernism movement in the U.S. with Leverhouse. So, that is the influence that you see on the NYSE building. It is clean, simplistic, and functional. However, there is a hint of decoration to the building in the way the facade gradiates from dark to light through a scattering of rectagular panels as the building rises. I've never seen another building like it. This building will be a tremendous addition to the downtown skyline, and will become a new icon and landmark representing Wall Street.

    • ID# 198.4 (reply to #198.3)
      From: Andrew Stern ([email protected]) - 27 July 2001

      Wes, I am he who put that rendering on my site. Many people have expressed their discuss with the tower. The way you describe it, it sounds as if it would be great looking. If its not to much to ask can you email me an improved rendering of the tower, I would give credits to you or SOM on my site, the only place I would post a rendering of the tower.

    • ID# 198.5 (reply to #198.3) - 27 July 2001
      Just to split hairs, regarding the statement of SOM starting the Internationalism (or, like I say, corporate US Modernism) in the US, I thought that a Swiss guy called Jeanneret sketched the eventually-realized UN Secretariat (1950) already in the late-1940s (Just triggered me as a recent NYT article also gave the credit to SOMmers)... As for placing Internationalism in direct urban context with streetscapes of older-style buildings, that's certainly something that SOM pioneered in -- along with some other bureaux, like Kahn & Jacobs in the late-1940s... ED
      • ID# 198.6 (reply to #198.5)
        From: me - 15 September 2001

        I don't think that there's much chance of it getting built now!

        • ID# 198.7 (reply to #198.6) - 15 September 2001
          In the present wreck-littered state of Downtown Manhattan and the economic recession looming threateningly, you're right "me" -- for the time being. However, the collapse of the 1 & 2 WTC, 7 WTC, demolition of the other WTC buildings, the possible demolition of the wobbly 1 Liberty Plaza and the damaged status of the World Financial Center will leave the Downtown office market very exposed (or "under-exposed" may be a more appropriate term) with vast amounts of rentable space wiped off and the area badly in need of new office buildings. Unless the economy plunges into new depths that makes financing more difficult, I have no doubt that the development will proceed -- and with new urgency.
          In fact, in the light of the acts of 11th, I have to say that I've changed my tack totally on the New NYSE Tower. Put the thing up -- fast -- as a finger to the terrorist scum, to put it mildly... ED

See also: NYSE TOWER: WORK IN PROGRESS?