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Oculus: Calatrava's phoenix in New York
A new architectural icon
In the heart of New York's financial district, very close to the place where the Twin Towers once stood, a kind of great white glass and steel bird with outstretched wings has risen for a few years. It is Oculus, the project of the Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava to replace the transport interchange that was destroyed in 2011 by the Ground Zero attac
Oculus: el ave fénix de Calatrava en Nueva York
Un nuevo icono arquitectónico
En plena zona financiera neoyorquina, muy cerca del lugar donde una vez se alzaron las Torres Gemelas, se levanta desde hace unos pocos años una especie de gran pájaro blanco de vidrio y acero con las alas extendidas. Se trata de Oculus, el proyecto del arquitecto e ingeniero español Santiago Calatrava para remplazar el intercambiador de transportes que quedó destruido en 2011 por los atentados de la Zona Cero.
Photo by Rocco S. Cetera
Oculus
World Trade Center
Financial District, Lower Manhattan
New York City
March 3, 2016
The state-of-the-art World Trade Center Transportation Hub, completed in 2016, serves 250,000 Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) daily commuters and millions of annual visitors from around the world. At approximately 800,000 square feet, the Hub, designed by internationally acclaimed architect Santiago Calatrava, is the third largest transportation center in New York City.
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub's concourse will ultimately connect visitors to 11 different subway lines; the PATH rail system; the Battery Park City Ferry Terminal; the National September 11 Memorial & Museum; World Trade Center Towers 1, 2, 3, and 4; and Brookfield Place (formerly known as the World Financial Center), which houses the Winter Garden. It represents the most integrated network of underground pedestrian connections in New York City.
The “Oculus” serves as the centerpiece of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, incorporating 78,000 square feet of multi level state-of-the-art retail and dining. The concourses emanating from the Oculus link the entirety of the site above and below grade. With an additional 290,000 square feet of exciting, multi-level retail and dining space, the World Trade Center site is the focal point of Lower Manhattan.
Oculus is one of many that were included in the city’s plan to rebuild the World Trade Center after September 11.
Project 365 // Day 25
Today, I visited what is perhaps the most recognized building in Sacramento – the State Capitol. As soon as you walk in, you are standing directly below this awesome oculus, a classical circular window at the top of the structure.
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The $4 billion Oculus station house consists of white ribs that interlock high above the ground. It was designed to connect 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. The hub contains connections to various New York City Subway stations, including Cortlandt Street on the N, R, and W trains; World Trade Center on the 2, 3, A, C, and E trains; and a future connection to Cortlandt Street on the 1 train. The Westfield World Trade Center mall is also within the Oculus building. The new station has received mixed reviews: although the hub has been praised for its design, it has also been criticized for its high costs and extended delays.
The station has five tracks, three island platforms and one side platform in a basement four stories underground.:S.10 Platform A, next to tracks 1 and 2, opened as part of the Transportation Hub on February 25, 2014. Platform B between tracks 2 and 3 opened on May 7, 2015. The other two platforms opened on September 8, 2016.
Above the station, there are three mezzanine levels. The top two levels contain shops as part of the Westfield World Trade Center. The first mezzanine level below ground also contains the future Cortlandt Street–Greenwich Street station for the 1 train and a direct entrance to the future northbound platform. A connection to the Cortlandt Street–Church Street station's southbound platform, for the N, R, and W trains, is located at the far east end of the mezzanine, past the mall's shops. The second mezzanine level contains the entrances to the station, as well as more connections to the subway. The third mezzanine level, located directly above the platform, contains the fare control and access to the platforms.:S.10
Prior to reconstruction, station had a temporary entrance on Church Street, which opened along with the rest of the temporary station in November 2003 With the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, the entrances and size of the temporary station have changed over time. In 2007, the Church Street entrance was relocated to the south, and the old entrance was closed and demolished. In April 2008, a third and final temporary entrance to the station was located at Vesey Street, facing Greenwich Street and adjacent to 7 World Trade Center. The temporary entrance was a one-story building on the south side of Vesey Street. On March 3, 2016, the permanent PATH station building opened and the temporary entrance was closed.The former temporary entrance was demolished later that year to make way for the Performing Arts Center.
A connection to Brookfield Place opened on October 27, 2013, through a permanent passageway known as the West Concourse.On August 16, 2016, the Westfield World Trade Center entrance opened.
Fulton St to Cortlandt St subway cross-section
Inside The Oculus. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. July 13, 2017. © Copyright 2017 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Play of midday light and shadows on the walls of the Oculus, SFMOMA
This week we made a visit to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) to see and hear the Soundtracks exhibit, which presents objects and installations of sonic art of various sorts. To be honest, I wasn't that hopeful about this exhibit — I've often found that many visual artist's ideas about sound art can be naive and banal in too many cases. However, the exhibit was (is, and you should go) excellent, with a wide variety of work that is interesting in a range of ways.
In any case, virtually every visit to this museum is also an excuse to make at least a few photographs, often of the architecture of the place. The central "Oculus" structure (which housed one of the sonic art pieces, too) is interesting to me as much for the play of light and shadows on its curved walls as it is for its own architectural form. I have photographed it many time, but being so close to the summer solstice the shadows took on different qualities than I had seen before. Here shadows from the structure of the upper window fall across a curved wall that is perforated by a pattern of large holes.
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On Thursday, March 4th 2016, 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
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The Oculus
Oculus.
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Lower Manhattan was officially opened to the public on 4 March 2016, replacing the PATH train station that was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks. It provides access to Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) commuter trains to New Jersey and 11 New York City subway lines.
Adjacent to the Ground Zero memorial is the Hub’s centerpiece, the Oculus, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava to resemble a dove taking flight. The structure is formed by softly-curving, white, steel ribs that rise from below the ground to form an elliptical dome over a vast concourse. The structure uses 11,500 tons of structural steel, and free from internal columns the concourse reaches a length of 350 ft and a height of 160 ft.
The transparency of the structure allows light to flood through onto the grey and white marble floors below, and a skylight that runs the length of the Oculus’ spine will open each September 11 to honour the memory of the victims.
The structure was built by Skanska for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who estimate the hub will be used daily by 250,000 commuters.
President and CEO of Skanska USA, Rich Cavallaro said, "Both our Oculus and PATH Hall projects were massively complex engineering and construction projects filled with added challenges — including keeping the No.1 Subway Line operating and removing 200 million gallons of water from the site after Superstorm Sandy. As the Oculus opens for the first time today, we hope New Yorkers enjoy this marvel as much as we did building it."
However, the project has been hit by heavy criticism, both for long delays – construction work began in 2004 – and for becoming the most expensive station in the world, costing the public $3.9bn, $2bn more than originally forecast. The design itself has been compared to a series of giant Nike ‘tick’ logos, and the carcass of a Thanksgiving turkey.
El oculus
El Centro de Transporte del World Trade Center en el Bajo Manhattan se abrió oficialmente al público el 4 de marzo de 2016, reemplazando la estación de tren PATH que fue destruida en los ataques del 11 de septiembre. Proporciona acceso a los trenes de cercanías Trans-Hudson (PATH) de la Autoridad Portuaria a Nueva Jersey y 11 líneas de metro de la ciudad de Nueva York.
Adyacente al memorial de la Zona Cero se encuentra la pieza central del Hub, el Oculus, diseñado por el arquitecto español Santiago Calatrava para parecerse a una paloma que vuela. La estructura está formada por nervios blancos de acero suavemente curvados que se elevan desde debajo del suelo para formar una cúpula elíptica sobre un amplio vestíbulo. La estructura utiliza 11,500 toneladas de acero estructural, y libre de columnas internas, el vestíbulo alcanza una longitud de 350 pies y una altura de 160 pies.
La transparencia de la estructura permite que la luz penetre en los pisos de mármol gris y blanco que se encuentran debajo, y una claraboya que recorre la longitud de la columna vertebral de Oculus se abrirá cada 11 de septiembre para honrar la memoria de las víctimas.
La estructura fue construida por Skanska para la Autoridad Portuaria de Nueva York y Nueva Jersey, quienes estiman que el centro será utilizado diariamente por 250,000 viajeros.
El presidente y CEO de Skanska USA, Rich Cavallaro, dijo: "Nuestros proyectos Oculus y PATH Hall fueron proyectos de ingeniería y construcción enormemente complejos llenos de desafíos adicionales, incluyendo mantener la Línea de Metro No.1 en funcionamiento y eliminar 200 millones de galones de agua del sitio después de la Supertormenta Sandy. A medida que el Oculus se abre por primera vez hoy, esperamos que los neoyorquinos disfruten de esta maravilla tanto como nosotros la construimos ".
Sin embargo, el proyecto ha sido golpeado por fuertes críticas, tanto por largas demoras (los trabajos de construcción comenzaron en 2004) como por convertirse en la estación más cara del mundo, costando al público $ 3.9 mil millones, $ 2 mil millones más de lo previsto originalmente. El diseño en sí se ha comparado con una serie de logotipos gigantes de Nike 'tick' y la carcasa de un pavo de Acción de Gracias.
If you've never heard of the Oculus - well - get ready. I took more than a few images here.
As lower Manhattan was reconfigured after 9/11, the transportation hub that sat beneath the original World Trade Center was moved west a few hundred feet - to sit outside the original footprint of the WTC block. Designed by architect Santiago Calatrava, the Oculus is a train station, plaza and shopping mall. And it's definitely out-of-this-world looking.
Everything above ground is empty shell. All of the shops etc. are below ground and in the wings. The exoskeleton of the building though definitely grabs your attention and is perfect for abstract expression...
Experience it yourself here: www.cbsnews.com/pictures/oculus-the-new-world-trade-cente...
The Oculus houses the New York Westfield Shopping Mall and is located next to the One World Trade Centre building.
World Trade Centre Plaza, New York - An awesome reflection on the wall of the 9-11 Museum complex. Oculus is the odd, skeleton looking building left of centre. It is part of the connection between the New Jersey PATH transit system and the New York subway systems that intersect at the World Trade Centre complex.