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The center building to both the World Trade Center Mall and the World Trade Center station, the Oculus has won lots of praise for its design. It also ran over budget and was delayed... I guess good things come to those who wait (and pay?).
According to Wikipedia, its the largest mall in New York City and the fifth largest transit hub in the metro area.
On Thursday, March 4th, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Lower Manhattan officially opened to the public. The hub replaces the PATH train station that was destroyed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which — if you'll recall — was rather a long time ago. Indeed, over 12 years in the making, the new train station is symbol of both governmental waste and architectural excess. Its centerpiece is the Oculus, a mind-boggling glass-and-steel structure designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava to look like a dove in flight, but it actually more closely resembles a pair of ragged claws, scuttling across the sands of Lower Manhattan.
Critics have blasted the hub for its massive cost overruns ($4 billion in public money) and lack of anything resembling a traditional train station (ticket machines, clocks, maps). But its existence is significant, if only because the hub represents the type of ambitious open spaces that used to exemplify public transit in the US. Grotesquely expensive, sure. Tough on the eyes, no question. But at least we all get to share in the spectacle.
Source: The Verge
Bit of an unfortunately reflection along the bottom...but that's what happens when you don't bring a polarizer!
Mamiya 7ii
80mm
Kodak Ektar 100
Oculus - PATH Station in NYC. Lovely place that, depending on the hour, has entirely different shadows and composition. Unfortunately, limited colors but with shadows, that usually means you can get some great results desaturated.
Toronto ON - Oculus Pavilion, a public washroom and park shelter designed in 1959 along the Humber River recreational trail in Etobicoke. May 2025.
Taken on a Hasselblad 500 C/M w/ Zeiss Planar T* 150mm lens on @cinestillfilm BwXX pushed to 800.
#hasselblad #hasselblad500cm #filmphotography #spaceage #urbanphotography.
the "great hall" connects the fulton transit center to the path station, many trade center buildings and brookfield place via underground tunnels.
Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and composed of a train station with a large and open mezzanine under the National September 11 Memorial plaza, the Oculus opened in March 2016. Calatrava said that the Oculus resembles a bird being released from a child's hand. The roof was originally designed to mechanically open to increase light and ventilation to the enclosed space. However, Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times, referred to the structure as "a kitsch stegosaurus"!
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