New York Times article on Niagara Falls incident

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document THE NEW YORK TIMES METRO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2003 Thinking Large on Design Of New Trade Center Hub Contirued From Page BI the city, it's always done from incop- gruence. Particularly New York I- lustrates that, more than any other city For his part, Mr. Libesksind welcomed Mc Calatrava. "*1 think he will bring in a very good dimenston,* he said yesterday. *There is plenty oF capacity for expression in this station. No matter bow che design turns out, the terminat will be the architec- tural lace that the pew trade center presents to most New. Yorkers, since It will be on Church Street, closer to the spine of Broadway andland- marks like the New York Stock Ex- change. Freedom Tower and the me- morjal, by contrast, will be on the west side of the 16-acre site. And the oftice towersplannedon Church street may beany yoars distant, Construction on the terminat could Envisioning a civic gathering place that would be open 24 hours a day. begin late next year or early in 2005, according to a draft document that is part of the environmental review, at the same spot where the temporary stadon stands now. Undergrouno ler- els would be finished by the end of 2006, with the main terminal bullding and pedestrian network completed berween 2007 and 2009. The temporary station, designed by Robert I Davidson of the Port Authority, is to open next month. At the moment, the design team is studying transportation demands that may exist in 25 years to ensure that the terminal is flexible enough, said Dominick M. Servedio, the chairman and chief executive of STV Group. His tirm, Mr. Calatraya and DMJM & Harris are allled as the Downtown Design Partnership, which has a $19.2 million contract from the authority. The project is being financed by the Federal Tran- sit Administration and from insur- ance proceeds. NYC-WTC_000142906 Mr. Servedio said the Downtown Design Partnership, the Port Author- fty and the Metropolitan Transporta- tion Authority hadbeen in a "dia» Togue" about therelation of the PATH terminal to the Fulton Street Transit Center, being designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners and Ove Arup & Parters. What is known about the trade center project is that it will include four passenger platforms for 10-car trains (the same length as those that existed before the attack), avast mezzanine,Jower and upper con courses: and a street-level bullding. presumably under glass, with retail space, There will be pedestrian passage ways to the 1 and 9 subway station, the World Financial Center, the Ful- ton Street Transit Center, Liberty Placa and other bulldines on the trade center site. We have a goal to fuitill Mr. Calatrava sald, *creating interior spaces of nigh guality, welcoming people, having them get immediately in touch with the light, giving them from the moment in which they are on the platform the feeling they are in ground zero, they are arriving in the city." *The secuence of spaces will be one of the most interesting things to explore," he said. Although the mez- zanine is underground, Mr. Cala- trava said he hoped a way might be found tobring daylight andvlews into the space Madelyn Wils, the chairwoman of Community Board Din Lower Man- hattan, applauded Mr. Calatrava's ambitious vision-to a point, *It's certainly wonderful that he wants to create the best possible indoor space" she said yesterday. Obvioasiy we want to be as cre ative and visionary as possible. But we also want street ute we dont want to internalire the civic sudl ence too much. We want them to be on the streets parts of the area. shopping, visiting other Though none of Mr. Calatrava's other stations are precisely anaio gous to the PATH terminal, he said his designs for the Lyon Airport Station and the Orient Station in Lis- bon embodied the kind of monumen- tality that might be appropriate. The Stadelhofen Station in Zurich exem- plifies integration Into an existing context, he said, and the Liege-Gull- Don Focn Charlas/The Now Yonk Tines The Port Authority's George Washington Bridge Bus Station was designed by Pier Luigi Nervi, who is a hero of Santiago Calatrava's. lemins TGV Station in Llege, Bel- glum, shows how stations can play a iole in economxic receseration, The only New York City project that Mr. Calatrava has yet complet- ed is the five-foot, stainless-steel New York Times Capsule, installed outside the American Museum of Natural History in 2001 and not to be opened until 3000. Five years ago, be was part of a team with Beyer Blinder Bellethat bld unsuccesstully o0 a new con- course and ticketing area for Penn- sylvania Station within the landmark General Post Office on Eighth Ave- nuе. "He really is the modern descend- ant in the great tradition of architect- engineers like Robert Malllart, Pler Luigi Nervi and Isambard Kingdom Brunel," said John Belle, when asked yesterday how he had come t0 choose Mr. Calatrava. Nervi, who designed the George Washington Bridge Bus Stationof 1963 for the Port Authority, is a hero of Mr, Calatrava's. So is Eero Saart- nen, whose Trans World Atrlines Flight Center of 1962 at Kennedy Atrport may be revived as part of a new terminal being planned by JetB- lue Airways and the Port Authority. "It puts us in a tradition ot the Port Authority as a client of grand buildings," Mr. Calatrava said.