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WE’LL BE TALK<strong>ING</strong> ABOUT...<br />

World Trade Center<br />

Transportation Hub<br />

World Trade Center<br />

Transportation Hub is an<br />

ambitious project commissioned by the Port<br />

Authority of New York & New Jersey to the<br />

well-known architect Santiago Calatrava so as<br />

to replace the old transportation hub destroyed<br />

in the 9/11 attacks. A focus point whose<br />

functional objective will be to significantly<br />

improve the connections with Lower Manhattan:<br />

the PATH trains and underground lines (1, 9, N<br />

and R) will converge there. Besides, it will also<br />

serve as a nexus to link the Towers 1-4, Liberty<br />

Place, Memorial Site and the World Financial<br />

Center.<br />

In order to hugely simplify that which might look<br />

like a confused maze of underground passages,<br />

Calatrava has projected the transport hub so<br />

that it can be perceived as a series of distinct<br />

spaces but with unifying characteristics, such as<br />

colour and materials: steel, concrete, stone and<br />

glass prevail. Concerning lighting, the architect<br />

has given great importance to natural light, as a<br />

powerful symbol of hope and vitality.<br />

The World Trade Center Transportation Hub is<br />

scheduled to be completed at the beginning of<br />

2015. It will be another of the different reshaping<br />

projects developed at Ground Zero to promote<br />

again this New York district. /<br />

SANTIAGO CALATRAVA<br />

To summarize in this<br />

page the work of this<br />

Valencian architect and<br />

sculptor specialized in big<br />

structures would be virtually<br />

impossible. For this reason,<br />

we will only highlight his<br />

Prince of Asturias Award<br />

for the Arts, his National<br />

Architecture Award and<br />

his American Institute of<br />

Architects Gold Medal.<br />

Photos: SANTIAGO CALATRAVA, LLC<br />

RETRATO: MICHAEL FALCO

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