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The controversial Oculus stands in the location of the World Trade Center's subway station. Cost overruns aside, it is an impressive piece of artwork. Inside there are loads of shops and trains.

 

The most interesting aspect of the Oculus are the ribs which gives the structure its unique shape.

 

From 911Memorial visit website:

911groundzero.com/blog/world-trade-center-oculus/

 

The Oculus was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. He intended it to resemble a dove leaving a child’s hands. You can see it in the tall, crossed steel columns that make up the exterior. Together, this series of columns forms a pair of 350-foot wings.

  

From Wikipedia:

The $4 billion Oculus station house, designed by Spanish architect 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, and includes connections to various New York City Subway stations. It is the fifth-busiest transportation hub in the New York metropolitan area. 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.

Photo by Rocco S. Cetera

 

Oculus

World Trade Center

Financial District, Lower Manhattan

New York City

 

March 3, 2016

An abstract image of the spinal columns from the Oculus with typical modern NY architecture in the background.

Metro station near Ground Zero, NY City, 2017.

The Oculus Train Station at the World Trade Center under construction.

Delft, Central Station.

Opening day of the WTC Transportation Hub.

This round window in St Mary Major has modern glass depicting our Lady and the Child Jesus surrounded by symbols of the old and new dispensation.

This is the ceiling of the central atrium in the Star Princess, the cruise ship I was on in April 2012. It had a large oculus with four sections. At the bottom of the photo is a balcony and railing that looks over the floor where I was. The structure in the upper left corner is a transparent elevator shaft. I had to lie on my back in the middle of the floor to take this photo, and people walking by were staring at me. Notice the burnt out light at the edge of the oculus at about the eight o'clock position.

Lunettes VR Oculus Rift

Abandoned chemical industry

Apertures

enclosed

in swirls of light.

 

Vaulted oculus-

painted windows

leaking sunshine.

The oculus, or circular window, at the top of the dome in the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History.

Inside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Lunettes VR Oculus Rift

The Pantheon dates to 118 and 125 and was constructed under the Emperor Hadrian (an earlier pantheon was constructed under Marcus Agrippa in 27 BC but it was destroyed by fire in 80.

 

The Pantheon is the best preserved of Roman architecture and is an engineering marvel. The concrete dome sits on a series of barrel vaults which can be seen on the outside drum of the building. The height and diameter of the interior is the same at 145 Roman feet, so bascially a sphere of 145 Roman feet can fit inside the building. Most of the exterior stucco and interior marble were stripped over the years.

 

In the 600s it was given to the pope and has been used as the Church of St. Mary and the Martyrs ever since.

Como el Partenón de Roma, esta torre de Guimerà tenia un oculus, situado en el centro de la cúpula, que permite la entrada de luz (y lluvia) en el edificio....

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The oculus, or circular window, at the top of the Dome Room in the Rotunda at the University of Virginia. Designed by Thomas Jefferson.

Calatrava Transportation hub at WTC

The Pantheon, Rome

 

I took a few different exposures of this and my favourite turned out to have an overexposed sky. I think that the haziness seems to give the oculus more life.

 

whc.unesco.org/en/list/91

 

Photo by Rocco S. Cetera

 

OCULUS

World Trade Center

Financial District, Lower Manhattan

New York City

 

May 26, 2016

World Trade Center - NYC

Long exposure of the Oculus in New York City.

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