With the Margaret Hunt Hill Trinity River Bridge completed and opened focus will turn to two more Calatrava projects:
- The Transportation Hub at the World Trade Center in NYC
- Margaret McDermott I-35 Santiago Caltrava Bridge in Dallas
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have contracted with Santiago Calatrava for a $3.4 billion transportation hub at the World Trade Center site which will serve as a connection point for PATH and subway trains.
About 250,000 people are expected to pass through its main concourse each day, and the retail space is supposed to measure 500,000 square feet, surpassing the size of the Time Warner Center.
The transit center is glass-and-steel. Some details of the design were eliminated in favor of cost which have risen with the price of steel.
The glass elliptical ceiling is composed of steel arches being fabricated in Spain.
The transit hub, which is expected to open in 2014, will be the third-largest transportation center in the New York with only the Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station being larger.
Santiago Calatrava Rendering of Proposed Transit Center at World Trade Center.
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