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One World Trade Center (1WTC), now completed soars 1776 feet above Lower Manhattan.
A massive, fantastical construction is nearing completion, shown at the bottom of this picture. This is the "Oculus" of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub. Designed by acclaimed Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, this multi-billion dollar project will accommodate 200,000 commuters each day on 11 subway lines 60 feet below the surface. A massive, two story retail mall of fine shopping and restaurants will lie beneath the 150 foot high Oculus.
Calatrava's inspiration for this structure is the "freedom of a bird taking flight," the outward structure reminiscent of a bird's spread wings. However, it looked like the fossil spine of a dinosaur to me.
Oculus, in architecture a circular opening, especially one at the apex of a dome.
The Oculus is home to 12 subway lines, the World Trade Center PATH station, and dozens of retailers, serving over a million people every week. The Oculus and Transportation Hub are owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. World Trade Center retail is leased and operated by the private entity Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, the Oculus resembles a dove leaving a child’s hands. Construction began in 2004 and it opened to the public on March 4, 2016.
Leica M10-R in New York in Prairial
Voigtlander 40mm f2.8 Heliar.
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The central skylight of the Oculus, World Trade Center, New York City.
Almost exactly two years ago we were in New York City for a week spent visiting relatives, making photographs, eating out, and generally wandering about as we pleased. Yes, this was before the Great Transition that came in March of 2020. (We recently visiting New York City again in the post-transition world, and it isn’t the same experience at all. I’m looking forward to a time when it is once again.) To be precise, we were there for most of the period between about Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
At some point — perhaps while on a long walk or possible at the termination of a subway ride — we ended up in Lower Manhattan in the vicinity of the World Trade Center, where this fascinating Oculus structure is located. It is a combination of shopping area and transit terminal, but it is also an arresting architectural presence. Its organic, rib-like structure contrasts with the cubic forms of most of the surrounding buildings. Inside, especially if you lift your eyes above the lower floor shopping area, it is a remarkable interior space that, in many ways, suggest some sort of light-filled cathedral.
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Oculus is one of many that were included in the city’s plan to rebuild the World Trade Center after September 11.
Pantheon building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft).
Rome, Italy '13
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