land under 17 State Street, as well as the neighboring One State Street Plaza, was refinanced with a $360 million loan from Natixis. Critical reception In 1988, architecture critic Paul Goldberger said: "This is not a great building, but it is one of the few truly happy intersections of the realities of New York commercial development and serious architectural aspirations." In 2008, architecture critic Carter B. Horsley has referred to it as “the city’s most beautiful curved building”, competing with Jean Nouvel’s faceted 100 Eleventh Avenue, Philip Johnson’s Lipstick Building, and pre-war buildings such as 1 Wall Street Court and the nearby Delmonico's Building. Justin Davidson wrote for New York magazine in 2010: "The tip of Manhattan lays out the stratified chaos of history, as the eighteenth-century James Watson House rubs up against the curving glass pillar of 17 State Street from the 1980s." References Notes Sources External links RFR website Emery Roth buildings Financial District, Manhattan Office buildings completed in 1988 Privately owned public spaces Skyscraper office buildings in Manhattan