Lucy G. Moses Award Given to One Wall Street, New Yorks Largest Office-to-Residential Conversion to Date

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

ADP Architects is pleased to announce that One Wall Street, the largest office-to-residential historic adaptive reuse project in New York City, has been selected to receive a 2021 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Project Award by the New York Landmarks Conservancy. 

Project Facts:

Sector: Residential

Location: New York, NY

Scope: Historic Preservation

Project Type: Exterior Restoration; Interior Renovation

Status: Completed

ADP Architects served as Historic Preservation Consultant for One Wall Street, the crown jewel of architect Ralph Walker’s Art Deco masterpieces. The award-winning building contains two parts: a Landmarked North Tower completed in 1931, and a South Annex completed in 1963 (not Landmarked). The present-day, transformative expansion project features a five-story vertical addition to the South Annex including ground-floor retail, several floors of condominiums with elegantly stepped terraces, a stunning resident pool and rooftop amenities that is seamlessly integrated with the North Tower, as well as the meticulous restoration of the “Red Room,” an astonishingly-detailed, 33-foot-high, floor-to-ceiling mosaic room in the North Tower designed by acclaimed muralist Hildreth Meière.

An integral part of transforming the building from an office into a mixed-use, residential property, was a concerted effort to move the building’s elevator cores from their original location—adjacent to the New Street façade—to the center of the building. This relocation was key in providing the opportunity for ample light to enter the building and creating massive efficiencies for the resulting design of residential units.

The comprehensive, historic adaptive reuse project of One Wall Street represents a third era of architectural aspiration in the fifty-story limestone building’s hundred-year history.