Architect：Ted Moudis Associates

Location：New York, NY, USA

Project Year：2020

Category：Offices

Mizuho Americas tasked Ted Moudis Associates with the design of its new Securities and Banking Headquarters in Manhattan. The new space was envisioned as a hub for traders and employees to collaborate within an energetic atmosphere. Ted Moudis Associates implemented a design that embraces the distinct culture of Mizuho across the company’s five floors.

An escalator ushers visitors up to the second-floor lobby, where they are met with a glass viewing box, through which the trading floor is visible. The glass partitions grants guests a view of the trading activity and energy of the workplace, while adhering to security protocols. Another walled room serves as a morning brief room, and transitions into a 24/7 cafe space. Ted Moudis Associates prioritized flexibility, ensuring that all furniture in the cafe space is movable, to accommodate larger events. Collaboration zones are incorporated at the corners of each floor, to allow for breakout meetings.

A grand bronze staircase with marble tread, set against a backdrop of wood slats and moving lights, leads to the third and fourth floors. The mathematical movement of the lighting references the technical mechanics of trading and can be reprogrammed as desired, emphasizing the core of the company’s work. Guests are brought into a separate conference space with outward-facing views, and travel is seamlessly programmed around the exterior of the floor by a singular linear light fixture that leads visitors and workers through the space. An executive suite on the fourth floor features a monumental 48-foot marble table and switchable glass walls. Workspaces on the 18th and 19th floors of the building house administration, legal and human resources departments.

Ted Moudis Associates incorporated insulation and soft carpeting to account for acoustics on the trading floors, designed to accommodate up to 800 people each. Support bars with access to recycling bins and shredders are situated at the ends of each row of benches, creating additional space for impromptu meetings. Trading floor columns incorporate company branding, each with the Mizuho logo set against white glass on one side, and against dark bronze on the opposite, to ensure that every worker has a unique view of the space. Trading floor rows are illuminated by rows of lighting carefully positioned in the high, open ceilings to avoid reflecting onto screens.

Mizuho’s origins and history are preserved through the thoughtful integration of company culture, Japanese design, and spaces for reflection. Ted Moudis Associates drew upon Japanese design influences, referencing the company’s origins through the use of contrasting colors, recessed metal, and warm wood accents. Original branding design throughout the workspaces is inspired by Japanese motifs, with signage based on kanji—logographic characters used in Japanese writing. The company’s work is reflected in the glass wall of rotating binary code that greets visitors upon arrival to the second floor. 

Ted Moudis Associates prioritized a human-centered approach in the workplace. Devised to promote equity and inclusion, the design integrates all-gender restrooms, prayer rooms, and wellness rooms.

Material Used :

1. Ceiling: Armstrong

2. Carpet: Interface

3. Stone: New York Stone

4. Other Feature Finishes: (Porcelain Marble) Florim

5. Workstations: Innovant

6. Trading Desk: Innovant

7. Private Offices: HALCON

8. Conference Rooms: Halcon, Svend Nielsen 

9. Ancillary: Davis / Andreu World / Bernhardt / Keilhauer / Stylex

10. Office Fronts: IAP (International Architectural Partitions)

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