GUTTER CREDITSThe Oculus
The structure, which
resembles a gleaming white
rib cage, houses the World Trade
Center’s transportation hub and
the Westfield shopping center.
Designed by Spanish-born
architect Santiago Calatrava
and completed in 2016, it cost
a staggering $3.9 billion to
build. Its sculptural columns
are meticulously aligned to let
light into the space, and every
year on September 11, weather
permitting, the Oculus’s skylight
opens at 10:28 a.m.—the exact
moment when the North Tower
collapsed in 2001.“Calatrava’s World Trade Center station
thrilled me the minute I saw it, theway that [Frank] Gehry’s Guggenheim
Museum Bilbao did. Electrifying.”
ALEXA HAMPTON, interior designer134 OCTOBER 2019
TRAVELPIX/ALAMYG2G_Oct_Feat_Icons.indd 134 8/30/19 5:27 PMThe Oculus
The structure, which
resembles a gleaming white
rib cage, houses the World Trade
Center’s transportation hub and
the Westfield shopping center.
Designed by Spanish-born
architect Santiago Calatrava
and completed in 2016, it cost
a staggering $3.9 billion to
build. Its sculptural columns
are meticulously aligned to let
light into the space, and every
year on September 11, weather
permitting, the Oculus’s skylight
opens at 10:28 a.m.—the exact
moment when the North Tower
collapsed in 2001.“Calatrava’s World Trade Center station
thrilled me the minute I saw it, theway that [Frank] Gehry’s Guggenheim
Museum Bilbao did. Electrifying.”
ALEXA HAMPTON, interior designer134 OCTOBER 2019
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