DIGITAL TRADING CENTER for
the NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

Studio Fall 2021 
New York City, New York, USA

Professor Hyojin Kim
Director Ali Rahim


Manhattan’s Financial District is home to many of the city’s early 20th century towers that manifest both gothic and neoclassical forms through the use of arches, vaults, and radial geometries. This proposed extension for the New York Stock Exchange modernizes this language by transforming the classic architectural forms into bifurcating arches and projective, curved geometries. The project features two ribbons which interact in confluence and moments of discord to create the programed spaces for the project--the spaces where the ribbons separate create the dense and split spaces to hold the machinic programs necessary for digital currency trade, while they combine to create tall arched spaced for stock data projection and exhibition. The density of the ribboned spaces denote the difference between the public and private spaces allowing for each to have their own distinct architectural language.

The program for the project includes a digital trading center, mechanical space for servers and the correspondant facilies, and circulation path for spectating tourists.