W T C Transportation Hub Oculus Interior # 15
by Allen Beatty
Title
W T C Transportation Hub Oculus Interior # 15
Artist
Allen Beatty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, the Oculus has a minimalist look: supporting the wings are white steel ribs interspersed with glass strips, all arranged in an elliptical shape. The inside may be even more dramatic than the exterior, with a column-free, cathedral-like core stretching 160 feet high and 350 feet long. Running the length of the Oculus' spine is a skylight that will open each September 11 to honor the memory of the victims.
With its long steel wings poised sinuously above the National September 11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub has finally assumed its full astonishing form, more than a decade after it was conceived.
Its colossal avian presence may yet guarantee the hub a place in the pantheon of civic design in New York. But it cannot escape another, more ignominious distinction as one of the most expensive and most delayed train stations ever built.
The price tag is approaching $4 billion, almost twice the estimate when plans were unveiled in 2004. Administrative costs alone , construction management, supervision, inspection, monitoring and documentation, among other items exceed $655 million.
As an artist living in the NY/NJ Metro area I love the astonishing design. As a taxpayer, I detest it.
Here we see the top of the Freedom Tower seen through the skylight of the Oculus.
This image is Featured in the following FAA Groups:
Art For Eternity With You,
Arts Fantastic World,
Artist Best Five Artwork,
No Place like Home,
Your Very Best Photography,
Seen But Not Noticed,
Only Doors and Windows Photography,
Fine Arts Professionals,
Balconies Windows and Doors,
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September 20th, 2017
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Mary Ann Weger
Congratulations! Your beautiful work has been featured in the Fine Art America group “Balconies Windows and Doors”! You are invited to archive your featured image for permanent storage and for viewing on the Discussions Page at: https://fineartamerica.com/groups/balconies-windows-and-doors.html?showmessage=true&messageid=3866502
Allen Beatty replied:
Mary Ann, thank you very much for the Home Page Feature in the Balconies Windows and Doors Group
Allen Beatty
Nader, thank you very much for the Home Page Feature in the Fine Arts Professionals Group
Allen Beatty
Nader, thank you very much for the Home Page Feature in the Only Doors and Windows Photography Group
Allen Beatty
Bob,thank you very much for the Home Page Feature in the Your Very best Photography Group
Allen Beatty
Tina, thank you very much for the Home Page Feature in the Artist Best Five Artwork Group
Allen Beatty
Romuald, thank you very much for the Home Page Feature in the Arts Fantastic World Group