Wall Street Plaza

88 Pine Street | Financial District | built 1973

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1974
I. M. Pei's firm completes Wall Street Plaza for a Hong Kong shipping line
Architect James Ingo Freed of I. M. Pei and Partners designed Wall Street Plaza at 88 Pine Street for the Hong Kong-based shipping line Orient Overseas Association. It was themed as a "light" tower, with glass and white-painted beams and columns instead of gray, and it was finished in 1974. The American Institute of Architects gave it an Honor Award, and Terrence Riley later called it among the most refined examples of modern design.
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1974
Creative Time stages public art in Wall Street Plaza's unused ground-floor space
From 1974 to 1978, the nonprofit Creative Time ran four public art projects at Wall Street Plaza in a street-level space meant for a future bank tenant. The first and most acclaimed was Ruckus Manhattan, a participatory, not-to-scale diorama of the city by artist Red Grooms and Mimi Gross that spread across more than 10,000 square feet.
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2019
The building's owner backs out of a lease with Amnesty International
COSCO Shipping, a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, bought Orient Overseas, the building's owner, in 2017. In 2019 the holding company pulled out of a lease deal with Amnesty International at the last moment, saying only that the group was not the best potential tenant. The move drew speculation that Chinese government pressure was involved, given Amnesty's criticism of China's treatment of Uyghurs.
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