WTC Hub’s Complex Design Overhauled for Constructibility - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction

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The most visible way the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey is trying to get a grip on the 16-acre World Trade Center redevelopment is through the simplification of Santiago Calatrava’s WTC Transportation Hub. To to keep the hub on its revised-upward $3.2-billion budget while retaining the architect-engineer’s “iconic” look, the port authority has eliminated the flapping wings of the steel hub, which is shaped like a dove. In the hub’s underground hall to the west, the Vierendeel trusses to support the arched concrete ceiling are gone.

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