Wall Street High

The fountains don’t flow, the shops have closed, the subway entrance is locked on weekends, and the trees are plastic. None of this diminishes the public atrium at 60 Wall Street, a cocaine-chic hypostyle hall designed by Roche-Dinkeloo in 1989. A heady mix of Persepolis column capitals and Olive Garden trellis motifs, the space wears its eccentricities with conviction. Music-video directors and fashion photographers love it, as do fans of American Psycho. Soon, it will be gone, replaced by an insipid design by KPF. Another New York showpiece of ambition and grandeur (however chintzy) obliterated in service to the cosseting beige and tender leafiness of the Sweetgreen lifestyle. Work-from-home is over!