Category Archives: WTC Transit Hub

MAJOR PROGRESS MADE BUILDING THE WTC TRANSPORTATION HUB

Major progress has been made in recent months to build the signature Santiago Calatrava-designed World Trade Center Transportation Hub, including the construction of sweeping arches that will form the Hub’s mezzanine level. Continue reading

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Calatrava’s WTC Transit Hub Pared Down

Santiago Calatrava’s design for a transit hub at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan has been scaled back. On July 1, shortly after revealing that virtually all of the construction projects at Ground Zero were behind schedule and over budget, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced it was cutting out a signature element of Calatrava’s elliptical-shaped building: a hydraulic system that would allow its ribbed steel wings to open and close. The operable roof was intended to allow natural light and air into the building. Continue reading

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Airy Design For WTC Transit Hub To Be Unveiled

The World Trade Center transit hub will replace the temporary PATH station that opened about two months ago, and it will include an underground concourse that connects a dozen subway lines. The concourse will also extend to the west, connecting to the World Financial Center and ferry terminals. Continue reading

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Risky Business- Spaniard To Design WTC Transit Hub

Santiago Calatrava, the 52-year-old Spaniard picked earlier this month to design a big new train and subway station at the World Trade Center site, is a singular figure in the design world: a remarkably inventive architect who’s also a civil engineer and a sculptor. But is he a good fit for Ground Zero? Continue reading

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Port Authority awards $86M contract in World Trade Center construction project

Share NEW YORK — The Port Authority took its first concrete step toward construction of Santiago Calatrava’s dramatic World Trade Center PATH and subway hub today, awarding an $86 million contract to a Long Island firm to provide the structure’s concrete floor slabs, beams and walls. Continue reading

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