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Credit Lyonnais Offices

Design/Completion 1990/1991 New York, New York, USA Credit Lyonnais 175,000 square feet

The new Credit Lyonnais offices establish a highly visible New York presence for a prominent European financial institution. The fixed core and adjacent corridors generate the configuration of each floor. Full-height demountable partitions create distincdy separate work units with custom Office furnishings accommodating Computer equipment. Star-shaped trading desks replicate those of the Paris headquarters. Throughout, a hierarchy of materials progresses from fabrics to leathers, and from laminates to wood veneers, reinforcing the functional progression from operations and data processing to banking and trading, and finally to the executive floors.

The neutrality of beige carpet, white textured walls, and light wood ceilings identifies the corridors encircling the central core. The brilliant blue of the Credit Lyonnais logo dominates fabric colors on the operational floors, while on banking floors and at areas of greater client contact, warmly colored leathers and cherry wood veneers set the tonę.

The project also included the renovation of the lobby and exterior.

1    Trading room

2    General ofTicc area: operations

3    General Office area: banking

4    Conference room

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