Early last month, Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center Transportation Hub in New York finally made its public debut. But after more than a decade of construction, little fanfare marked the milestone for the much-delayed, nearly $4 billion project, which was originally slated to open in 2009 and was first estimated to cost $2.2 billion. Instead, the client, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, removed some of the construction barriers, giving people access to one of several street-level entry points and one end of the almost-complete main hall. The space, known as the Oculus, is the centerpiece of a sprawling network of underground connections among the World Trade Center’s office towers and a station for the PATH train to New Jersey, which the agency says will serve 100,000 commuters per day.
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