A couple of days ago, on a tour of retail in Lower
Manhattan, I passed through—and photographed—the transportation hub down by Westfield World Trade Center. The “Oculus,”
designed by Santiago Calatrava, is certainly a striking architectural feature
of a point in the city that now serves not only as a transit station but as a
shopping mall, a tourist center, and a memorial.
There is an overwhelming feeling of brightness as
one traverses this passage, aided not only by the white “wings” overhead but by
the 335-foot-long skylight, which is designed to suggest the light that
continues to come through an area of overwhelming tragedy that nobody in New
York City 17 years ago on 9/11 will ever be able to forget.
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