It’s a building the likes of which New York City has never seen. Standing in stark contrast to Manhattan’s tall and boxy skyscrapers, this pure white steel structure looks like it’s in motion: indeed, ...

The centerpiece of Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center Transportation Hub, the spiny, bleach-white structure commonly known as the Oculus, was designed to evoke the image of a dove taking flight ...

NEW YORK — Viewed from afar, past street level obstructions, the ascending white ribs of Santiago Calatrava’s Oculus resemble a fish skeleton. Moving closer it’s more like a prehistoric bird. No ...

The Transportation Hub is conceived at street level as a freestanding structure situated on axis along the southern edge of the “Wedge of Light” plaza. As described in Daniel Libeskind’s master plan ...

As it turned out, Calatrava would play a vital role in rebuilding lower Manhattan. In early 2004, while presenting his proposal for a new transportation hub for the World Trade Center (later dubbed ...

In the spring of 2008, I travelled to Europe to report a Profile of Santiago Calatrava, the Spanish architect who had been appointed to design a new PATH station for the World Trade Center site. I’d ...

Have you ever noticed this link between the Samuel Beckett bridge and the Oculus? When you finally see it, you wonder how you missed it. Missed how the bow of Dublin's Samuel Beckett bridge is echoed ...