W T C Transportation Hub Oculus Interior # 2
by Allen Beatty
Title
W T C Transportation Hub Oculus Interior # 2
Artist
Allen Beatty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
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The interior of the Oculus of the WTC Transportation Hub.This portion of the Hub contains two levels of retail and dining establishments.
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.
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July 24th, 2016
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