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WTC Transit Hub Features Open-Air Design
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http://GreekChat.com/gcforums/showth...threadid=44177 http://GreekChat.com/gcforums/showth...threadid=44816 __________________________________________________ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040122/ap_on_re_us/attacks_transit_hub_4 By AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - A transit hub at the World Trade Center site will shine sunlight 60 feet underground and have a dome that can be opened to the sky each Sept. 11, design drawings released Thursday show. Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava presented final drawings for the $2 billion station that New York and New Jersey officials say will be comparable to city landmarks like Grand Central Terminal. The station, serving the PATH commuter line linking Manhattan and New Jersey, will have walkways to link it to 14 New York City subway lines and nearby ferry service. New York City has a tradition of creating buildings that become "almost public sculptures," said Calatrava, who has designed buildings around the world including the stadium for the Athens Olympics this summer. The station, located to the east of where the Twin Towers once stood, will have canopies resembling wings that emerge 150 feet in the air from a glass and steel dome. The themes, Calatrava said at a news conference, are "a new world, life, flight and hope." The dome is designed to allow a ceremonial opening each year on the anniversary of the terrorist attack so that "the building itself is expressing the memory as a permanent sign of the 11th of September," Calatrava said. "It is spectacular," Gov. George Pataki said, calling the proposal "something that will not only be a practical transit hub ... but it will be a tribute to those we lost." It is the third presentation of designs for the 16-acre site. Architects David Childs and Daniel Libeskind last month presented models of the Freedom Tower, and designers Michael Arad and Peter Walker last week offered drawings of a ground zero memorial, to be on the footprints of the vanished towers. A temporary PATH terminal opened in November, and is now taking more than 24,000 daily riders between New Jersey and Manhattan, said Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Greg Trevor. PATH stands for Port Authority Trans Hudson. The trade center's PATH station had served 67,000 daily passengers before the attacks. The proposed design for a permanent PATH station would let daylight shine on the four train platforms, 60 feet below ground. "We are bringing the light through the building and making the light one of the pillars of the building," Calatrava said. Construction could begin on the new hub by the end of the year, and it should be finished in 2009, the same year the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower is scheduled for completion. Slide Show http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...2611676336.jpg http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...ub_xnyr307.jpg ____________________________________ I think that this design is outstanding! I love it! |
He must really have a thing for wings. He designed the addition to Milwaukee's art museum, and it looks almost exactly like the picture above
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The wings "open" and "close" as well... it's really cool to see it in operation.
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I'll check into that for ya ;)
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That is beautiful. The one in NY is supposed to look like a bird's wings. I think that it looks like an angel.
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Very pretty looking. :D :D
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Of the three major design elements for the former WTC site (office buildings, memorial, transit hub,) the transit hub seems to be the overall best. When the original talk for an enhanced transit hub began after 9-11, what was reported in the press was utilitarian in nature. I was pleasantly surprised to see this design. It achieves the function that they were aiming for, but it is also beautiful. It is a living memorial to 9-11 in a way that inspires hope in humanity.
This is one of those rare occasions when an indoor space is created that is a masterpiece worthy of civic pride. It looks to be on the level of Grand Central Station, the former Penn Station, and the World Financial Center's Winter Garden. I'm very happy. It is so much better than I could have imagined.:D |
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