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Photos from the Calatrava World Trade Center Transportation Hub Construction

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Construction of the Oculus of the WTC Transportation Hub by Calatrava  On Friday, we showed you our Google Glass videos of the construction inside both the Calatrava World Trade Center Transit Hub and 1 WTC. While the videos are roughly the same quality as what you can take on your smartphone, one benefit of using Google Glass is that you can film hands free. This allowed us to take photographs using an SLR camera at the same time. So here, take a closer look at the construction of the Calatrava “Bird” that will be the WTC Transportation Hub. In our first visit to the construction in site in June, Untapped Cities writer and urban planner Alex Wallach described the form of the building: The intricate beams and supports of the building were created by Calatrava by painting the forms first, then by sculpting them from clay before designing the engineering. Here, we’re standing in an… Read More

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