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After months of financial concerns about constructing the transit hub at the World Trade Center as designed by Santiago Calatrava, the Port Authority appears to be giving up a "key element" of the design, according to the NY Times.
Calatrava had designed a "vast underground mezzanine free of columns," but that is expensive and complex. The architect, who already revised the design, believes it can be built on budget, and his statement said, “It has always been my goal to deliver a beautiful, practical transportation hub for Lower Manhattan. In its revised state, the project retains all of its fundamental beauty, and the adjustments make it an ever-more-functional and coherent facility that will serve New York well in the years to come.”
The Times says the Port Authority is discussing two other designs: "an alternative calling for reuse of existing columns" and "an alternative that would use...'a more traditional column-supported structural approach to the PATH mezzanine.'" It's possible a combination will be used, too.
Last month, the Port Authority said the roof of the transit hub would no longer by retractable. The design will still retain its "winged" design.
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Architects like Calatrava never design anything practical.
Eventually it'll devolve into Penn Station II.
if everything were "practical" you'd end up with all the generic buildings sprouting all over the place. NY architecture is the worst. Calatrava has done buildings that open, it's just money, money, money...
It's fucking wonderful. Now just build the damn thing.
They should just build a damn box and get it over with, that is where it's headed at this point as they remove more and more elements. Unfortunately, we kind of all figured this would happen, no?
Wake me up when they actually start building something. With every sketch I see for new buildings in NYC, they never end up getting off the ground.
Calatrava is an amazing architect and NYC needs more awe-inspiring architecture. For chrissakes, if Milwaukee can do it, we sure as hell can. After suffering through a half century of horrible building design in the name of "practicality" (not only the disgusting Penn Station mess, but the black monolith that is part of Mt. Sinai hospital, etc.)we need to have more public spaces and buildings that look like Calatrava's....
This is NY for god's sake..allow the man to to his thing. Why r we so conservative when it comes to good design. This city should have been like Dubai by now.. 2008
why are all the people standing at an angle?
::why are all the people standing at an angle?::
One of the extraordinary aspects of Calatrava's revolutionary design is that the floor of the mezzanine is made of jello.
I'd love to go rollerskating in that picture.
Really now, how fun would that be?
It reminds me a little of Terminal 5 at JFK. The retractable roof would have been a mechanical nightmare.
its time to start building :)
I vote for Penn station II