News article on Trade Center transit hub design contract

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THE NEW YORK TIMES METRO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 32, 2003

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Thinking Large on Design ill- Of New Trade Center Hub Mr. Servedio said the Downtown I'-l I Continued From Page Bl Design Partnership, the Port Author­ ity and the Metropolitan Transporta­ the city, it’s always done from incon­ tion Authority had been in a "dia­ gruence. Particularly New York il­ logue” alx)ut the relation of the lustrates that, more than any other PATH terminal to the Fulton Street - city.” For his part, Mr. Libeskind Transit Center, being designed by welcomed Mr. Calatrava. "1 think he Nicholes Grimshaw & Partners and L will bring in a very good dimension,” Ove Arup & Partners. he said yesterday. "There is plenty What is known about the trade of capacity for expression in this center project is that it will include station.” four passenger platforms for lO-car S! No matter how the design turns trains (the same length as those that out. the terminal will be the architec­ existed before the attack), a vast tural face that the new trade center mezzanine, lower and upper con­ presents to most New Yorkers, since courses and a street-level building. it will Ije on Church Street, closer to presumably under glass, with retail the spine of Broadway and land­ space. ■ marks like the New York Stock Ex­ There will be pedestrian passage­ 1

change. Freedom Tower and the me­ ways to Che 1 and 9 subway station, morial, by contrast, will be on the the World Financial Center, the Ful­ west side of the 16-acre site. And the ton Street Transit Center. Liberty office towers planned on Church Plaza and other buildings on the .J.

Street may be many years distant. trade center site, Construction on the terminal could "We have a goal to fulfill.” Mr. Calatrava said, "creating interior a;. spaces of high quality, welcoming people, having them get Immediately in touch with the light, giving them Envisioning a civic from the moment in which they are on the platform the feeling they are gathering place that in ground zero, they are arriving In would be open 24 the city.” "The sequence of spaces will be hours a day. 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 begin late next year or early in 2005. found to bring dayliglit and views according to a draft document that is into the space. part of the environmental review, at Madelyn Wils, the chairwoman of W3R (he same spot where the temporary Community Board 1 in Lower Man­ Don Hogan Cfi^rtesZ'fhe New Ysrt Times station stands now. Underground lev­ hattan. applauded Mr. Calatrava’s The Fort Authority's George Washington Bridge Bus Station was els would be finished by the end of ambitious vision — to a point. designed by Pier Luigi Nervi, who is a hero of Santiago Calatravas. 2006, with the main terminal building "It's certainly wonderful that he and pedestrian network completed want,s to create the best possible between 2007 and 2009. Indoor space,” she said yesterday. lemins TGV Station in Li^e, Bel­ ant In the great tradition of architect” The temporary station, designed "Obviously, we warn. Io be as cre­ gium, shows how stations can play a engineers like Robert MaUlart, Pier ’ by Robert L Davidson of the Port ative and visionary as possible. But role In economic regeneration. Luigi Nervi and Isambard Kingdom Authority, Is to open next month. we also want street life. We don’t The only New York City project Brunel,” said John Belle, when asked ! At the moment, the design team is want to internalize the civic audience that Mr. Calatrava has yet complet­ yesterday how he had come to studying transportation demands too much. We want them to be on the ed is the five-foot, stainless-steel choose Mr. Calatrava. that may exist in 25 years to ensure streets, shopping, visiting other New York Times Capsule, installed Nervi, who designed the George that the terminal is flexible enough, parts of the area.” outside the American Museum of Washington Bridge Bus Station of said Dominick M. Servedio, the Though none of Mr. Calatrava’s Natural History in 2001 and not to be 1963 for the Port Authority, Is a hero chairman and chief executive of STV other stations are precisely analo­ opened until 3000. of Mr. Calatrava’s. So is Eero Saari­ Group. His firm, Mr. Calatrava and gous to the PATH terminal, he said Five years ago, he was part of a nen, whose Trans World Airlines DMJM & Harris are allied as the his designs for the Lyon Airport team with Beyer Blinder Belle that Flight Center of 1962 at Kennedy Downtown Design Partnership, Station and the Orient Station in Lis­ bid unsuccessfuliy on a new con­ Airport may be revivc»d as part of a which has a $19.2 million contract bon embodied the kind of monumen- course and ticketing area for Penn­ new terminal being planned by JetB­ from the authority. The project Is tality that might be appropriate. The sylvania Station within the landmark lue Airways and the Port Authority. being financed by the Federal Tran- Stadelhofen Station in Zurich exem­ General Post Office on Eighth Ave­ "It puts us in a tradition of the I sit Administration and from Insur- plifies integration into an existing nue. Port Authority as a client of grand I ance proceeds. context, ho said, and the Li^ge-Guil- "He realty is the modern descend- buildings,” Mr. Calatrava said.

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