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The $4 billion Oculus station house, designed by Santiago Calatrava, consists of white ribs that interlock high above the ground. The interior of the station house contains two underground floors, which house part of the Westfield World Trade Center mall. The transportation hub connects the various modes of transportation in Lower Manhattan, from the Fulton Center in the east to the Battery Park City Ferry Terminal in the west, through the station house. The hub contains connections to various New York City Subway stations, including Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street on the 2, ​3​, A, ​C, ​E​, ​N, ​R, and ​W trains and WTC Cortlandt on the 1 train. It is the fifth-busiest transportation hub in the New York metropolitan area.
Santiago Calatrava's wonderful Oculus building in Manhattan, NYC. More properly known as the World Trade Center transport hub, it cost an astonishing $4 billion.
This is a photo that I took with my big camera - a Nikon Z7ii - but it's not really any better than the one I took with my iPhone 13.
For comparison the iPhone photo is a little earlier on my Flickr photostream - posted here on Sept 23rd.
The World Trade Center transit station serving PATH commuter trains and MTA subway trains. The above ground station house is called the Oculus. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava and opened in 2016.
Ceiling of the Meeting House, University of Sussex, designed by Sir Basil Spence and his assistant Anthony Blee, and completed in 1966.
The Meeting House was originally proposed as a Christian chapel but was finally realised as a facility catering for all students irrespective of faith. As such it provides for interdenominational worship and secular contemplation, or simply relaxation.
(Refs: Basil Spence - Architectural Design and the Study of Humanities at the University of Sussex, Dr Alistair Davies, 2014
Basil Spence, Buildings & Projects, edited by Louise Campbell, Miles Glendenning and Jane Thomas, 2012; RIBA Publishing