Federal Reserve Plaza
33 Maiden Lane, New York

The 28-storey office building is located on a 21,700 square-foot site in downtown Manhattan which included no corners that were at 90 degrees or even identical to any others on the site. Seven twenty foot diameter turrets, topped with crenellated crowns, running the full height of the building are introduced at the pivot points to create corner offices and penthouses with landscaped roof terraces. The building is raised up several stories from the street level creating a vaulted pedestrian space that is 43 feet high, 30 feet wide and 150 feet long. The lower level of this arcade provides a prominent location for the Whitney Museum’s downtown branch and a connection to the city’s subway system, while the upper level provides a retail shopping corridor. Buff colored bricks are used for the turrets and the prominent vertical members of the building while dark brown iron-spot bricks are used for the spandrels to reinforce the verticality of the turrets and limestone is used for all trim. The architecture of the building design responds to the Federal Reserve Building which sits across from the plaza on Maiden Lane.