Statistics- Completed late 2009
- Height 740ft (230m)
- 44 floors
- 53 elevators
- 2,100,000 sq ft
- Architect Pei Cobb Freed & Partner
Henry Cobb had lived and worked in Manhattan for 60 years before he got to design his first project on the Island, the understated Goldman Sachs New World Headquarters, at the age of 79. The building has quietly risen onto the skyline in the shadows of the World Trade Center site largely unnoticed and though the bank now occupies the entire building, it's name does not appear anywhere on the tower. Perhaps, this speaks volumes about the Goldman Sachs business model that an investment banking behemoth is able to rake in profits and success without having to take advantage of organic marketing that comes with the opening of a new world headquarters but much more on client relations, client service and network.
The design of the building had to take consideration of preserving riverfront views from the World Financial Center and Cobb managed to convince Goldman executives that work stations would fit more efficiently into a curved shape as an alternative to designing a wedge shaped building to fit the brief. The building is also designed to provide tenants with the ability to easily move workstations around with an underfloor air system that makes it possible for workers to control the temperature in their own airspace. Another feature for Goldman employees is what Cobb calls a living room around which the rest of the building is designed on floors 10 to 12 which features dining, meeting and exercise areas linked by a sky lobby and a three floor staircase.
During construction, there were two incidents that delayed construction, the first of which saw a 7 ton load falling onto two park trailers and injuring an architect, Robert Woo, who may never walk again. The second involved a piece of steel falling into a nearby baseball field where children were playing. Although no one was injured, this delayed construction when the site was temporarily shut down before the first employees moved into the building in October 2009.
The design of the building had to take consideration of preserving riverfront views from the World Financial Center and Cobb managed to convince Goldman executives that work stations would fit more efficiently into a curved shape as an alternative to designing a wedge shaped building to fit the brief. The building is also designed to provide tenants with the ability to easily move workstations around with an underfloor air system that makes it possible for workers to control the temperature in their own airspace. Another feature for Goldman employees is what Cobb calls a living room around which the rest of the building is designed on floors 10 to 12 which features dining, meeting and exercise areas linked by a sky lobby and a three floor staircase.
During construction, there were two incidents that delayed construction, the first of which saw a 7 ton load falling onto two park trailers and injuring an architect, Robert Woo, who may never walk again. The second involved a piece of steel falling into a nearby baseball field where children were playing. Although no one was injured, this delayed construction when the site was temporarily shut down before the first employees moved into the building in October 2009.
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