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Vista exterior de la World Trade Center station, Nueva York, conocida como Oculus, de Santiago Calatrava (2016), con el Westfield World Trade Center al fondo.
The main station house, the Oculus, opened on March 4, 2016, and the terminal was renamed the World Trade Center Transportation Hub ( short from Wikipedia ).
The Oculus was positioned as part of the World Trade Center masterplan by Daniel Libeskind and designed by Santiago Calatrava. The structure’s white metal-clad steel ribs reach up and out in a monumental move symbolic of a hand releasing a dove.
The structure's orientation serves as a lasting reminder of the attacks of September 11, 2001. It is in alignment with the sun’s solar angles on each September 11, from 8:46 am, when the first plane struck, until 10:28 am, when the second tower collapsed. Its central skylight fits this alignment and washes the Oculus floor with a beam of light.
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The Oculus is the World Trade Center transportation hub in Lower Manhattan. The glass-and-steel structure, opened to the public in 2016, was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
The dramatic new station for the PATH trains to New Jersey ("The Oculus") recently opened, built across from Ground Zero, and framing the new "Freedom Tower" at One World Trade Center. I snapped this quickly from inside my car when dropping a friend off at the train. -- NYC August 21, 2016
Re-posted in memoriam for the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center attack. We all remember exactly where we were that day and what we were doing, and we will never be the same. Nothing will ever be the same. -- September 11, 2021
The Oculus is home to 12 subway lines, the World Trade Centre station, and dozens of retailers, serving over a million people every week.
The main floor bustles with commuters, shoppers, and visitors, plus weekly programs, from farmers' markets and art exhibits to musical performances and retail events.
The Oculus has access points across the entire 16-acre World Trade Centre campus and is owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The Oculus was positioned as part of the World Trade Center masterplan by Daniel Libeskind and designed by Santiago Calatrava. The structure’s white metal-clad steel ribs reach up and out in a monumental move symbolic of a hand releasing a dove.
The structure's orientation serves as a lasting reminder of the attacks of September 11, 2001. It is in alignment with the sun’s solar angles on each September 11, from 8:46 am, when the first plane struck, until 10:28 am, when the second tower collapsed. Its central skylight fits this alignment and washes the Oculus floor with a beam of light.
Another angle on my favourite building in New York...or anywhere else. The Oculus near the 9/11 Memorial.
The Pantheon is a former Roman temple, now a Catholic church (Basilica di Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs), in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). It was rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated around 126AD.
The building is cylindrical 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.[3] The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43 metres (142 ft).
It is one of the best-preserved of all Ancient Roman buildings, in large part because it has been in continuous use throughout its history.