On April 20, 2022, the New York Landmarks Conservancy held the 32nd annual Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards Gala at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. The Conservancy’s highest honors for outstanding preservation, the Moses Awards, recognizes individuals, organizations, architects, craftspeople, and building owners for extraordinary contributions to preserving the City.

Among the honorees was the restoration and adaptive reuse of One Wall Street in Manhattan, for which Hoffmann Architects served as building envelope consultant. Designed by Ralph Thomas Walker in 1931 for the Irving Trust Company, the 51-story limestone Art Deco tower was expanded in 1963 to occupy an entire city block. With an undulating limestone facade that simulates a curtain draped around the building, One Wall Street is now New York’s largest office-to-residential adaptive reuse project.

Beginning in 1996, Hoffmann Architects provided building envelope assessment and rehabilitation design services for the Bank of New York, which owned One Wall Street. Macklowe Properties acquired the building in 2015, with a vision to undertake an adaptive use conversion from institutional commercial to residential/mixed-use. With extensive knowledge of the enclosure and project history at One Wall Street, Hoffmann Architects was retained as the building enclosure consultant on a design team led by the Architect of Record, SLCE Architects, to support the extensive envelope program associated with this redevelopment. Kara Shypula, Assoc. AIA, and Juan Kuriyama, AIA of Hoffmann Architects managed the project.

Hoffmann Architects provided architectural and engineering services, including design assistance and QA/QC observation, for a new unitized curtain wall system and retail storefronts at the base of One Wall Street , a complete restoration of the existing limestone facade, creation of masonry openings for installation of new windows, refurbishment of existing windows, recreation of the historic monumental entrance along Broadway, conversion of 53 roofs into amenity terraces, and a new seven-story overbuild amenity addition clad in a window wall system with precast panels.

One Wall Street is an emblem of Gilded Age New York opulence, with an organic design that evokes an era of possibility. Evolving this sense of new beginnings tied with rich history into the adaptive reuse involved rigorous detailing and a design team that honored the architectural heritage of the structure. Hoffmann Architects is grateful to be recognized, together with Macklowe Properties and a talented team of designers and craftspeople, for restoration and adaptive reuse of this Financial District icon.