A neighborhood that people don’t want.
Excellent Architecture by Rafael Vinoly; and tasteful ‘Interior Design’ by March & White. 
FYI - I have 40 other post on this topic. Click on my infoshare tag above to see my other photos/comments/links.
Curb appeal on that street just got a whole lot better. Unfortunately they need to purge the 5,000 “NY GIFTS <3” shops in fidi before the neighborhood further improves
The exposed architectural concrete actually looks great; looking even better with the passage of time and the surface discolorations begin to mellow.
The Architectural Concrete would have been almost perfect if not for that horizontal dark streak of discolored concrete at about 1/3 up from the bottom. This is only a minor quibble with the blotchy concrete surface on some sections. 
This building is quite crisp, cool and contemporary. This is truly Capital A Architectural design: Utility, Solidity and beauty. The Vitruvian Triad award is in order here.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLcmxQ6OYyy/
For those who like Boolean Algebra, and Venn diagrams: the center area is the Vitruvian Sweet Spot.
Strong Design = Vitruvian Traid Award. Captial A Architecture….
This tower and 111 Murray are fantastic additions to the World Trade Center area. I wonder, were any highrises similar to those two projects proposed while the Twin Towers were still standing? The only proposal I know in that area that was canceled was another World Financial Center building
do you know where I can find more information about this proposal?
I know it’s been posted somewhere on this website. Check the old skyscraper renderings and construction forum, or canceled projects and proposals forum
I couldn’t find anything on this forum.
Was this it?
This just ended up being Goldman Sachs Tower at Site 26 (200 West Street). I can’t find anything suggesting there was a real proposal for the site published before Goldman’s.
Yes, Olympia and York bankrupted before anchoring the tower to a large bank, it consisted of 2 million square feet. I have some other pictures of this inc. Pelli standing next to a model somewhere.
as you mentioned it just ended up being Goldman Sachs. It used to be a parking lot for the longest time.
It just looks like the other WFC towers, except instead of a ziggurat or pyramid-shaped crown there would be a quonset hut on top. I guess Pelli was running out of novel ideas for roofs.
There were three different iterations for the roof and podium layout. I will browse thru my files later. The base was not square in this one.
in addition to the quonset hut and the triangular prism, did Pelli ever consider putting a layered cylindrical wedding cake on top of the never-built 5 WFC?
No. But there are multiple attempts that appeared in diagrams in a wall he stood next to. One of them had that semi cylinder but with the top sliced, forming a flat cut. Many features have set it apart from the other towers, i need to dig thru my archive!