But compare and contrast with a New York transit hub of another age...
Posted on 02/28/2016 8:36:25 AM PST by C19fan
A new transit hub designed to evoke a bird in flight will open next week at the World Trade Center in New York. Its architect called it a 'monument to life.'
'It is a monument of faith in this city and a monument dedicated to the people,' said Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava, 64, of the Oculus, a $4 billion structure that was built around, beneath and above an existing, still-operating subway line.
Steve Plate, the chief of major capital projects for the Port Authority, which funded the project, described how the building 'is aligned precisely to allow the sun to come in exactly in that opening on Sept. 11 at 10:28 [am], when the last tower fell, to capture that light and remember that moment.'
Plate's superior, however, blasted the structure as a 'symbol of excess' for wildly exceeding projected costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Looks like a Resurrection Ship on Battle Star Galactica! ;-)
Yeah, yeah...but what does Alex Jones think?
A Phoenix rising from the ashes.
Steve Cuozzo of the New York Post described the station in 2014 as it was being built as “a self-indulgent monstrosity” and “a hideous waste of public money”.[39] Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times, referred to the structure as “a kitsch stegosaurus”.[40] New York magazine referred to it in 2015 as it neared completion as a “Glorious Boondoggle” and, while withholding final judgement on the unfinished structure, did note the “Jurassic” appearance.[41] The New York Post editorial board also described the station when it opened in 2016 as the “world’s most obscenely overpriced commuter rail station — and possibly its ugliest”, deeming the transit hub a “white elephant” and “monstrosity”, comparing the Oculus to a “giant gray-white space insect”.[42]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_(PATH_station)#Temporary_PATH_station
I see lots of pigeon perches over congested walking areas
Looks like something designed in the 1960s
It has been a monumental disaster.
Calatrava’s designs, while pretty, are already out-dated outside of being insanely expensive. A product of the early 2000s obsession with “Starchitects” and their style, rather than their practicality.
This is the first I’ve seen of it. I find it dramatic and graceful in an intensely dated way and instantly reminiscent of the TWA terminal at JFK airport, NY. Very 60’s.
Merits of architecture or functionality aside, how on earth are they going to keep that thing clean? What a nightmare. Perpetual employment for the cleaning crew, I guess.
What a futuristic pigeon perch! How many pigeons can you accommodate for 4 BILLION dollars? Take that, islamo-fascists. Our memorials are so ostentatious we feel vindicated. Or “healed”. Or something.
And this being New York City, did anyone ever believe it would come in on time and under budget? I wonder how many union thugs get three and four paychecks for half a week's work.
It has a certain beauty, but opponents could rightly say it looks like a huge fossil, too.
Where have I seen this before?
Oh....yeah.....when I filet a fish.
They should call it “Fishbones”.
There are a number of states that could fund their entire budget for a year or more on $4 billion.
How much is the pigeon poop cleanup contract?
It seems to have a lot of spears in those “wings” that will break off in a storm and skewer people below...
The bums and men of color who can piss in public will be thrilled
Paid for by the Taxpayers in the other 56 States.
But compare and contrast with a New York transit hub of another age...
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