WTC terminal architect chosen.Last week, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, self-sustaining public corporation established in 1921 by the states of New York and New Jersey to administer the activities of the New York–New Jersey port area, which has a waterfront of c. announced the choice of Santiago Calatrava Santiago Calatrava Valls (born July 28, 1951) is an internationally recognized and award-winning Spanish architect and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich, Switzerland. as the chief architect for the transportation terminal at the planned World Trade Center complex. Calatrava, who is known for such work as the Bridge of Europe in Orleans, France and the Athens Olympic sports The Olympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. The current Olympic program consists of 35 sports with 53 disciplines and more than 400 events — the Summer Olympics include 28 sports with 38 disciplines, and the Winter Olympics stadium, is expected to partner with DMJM DMJM Daniel, Mann, Johnson, & Mendenhall (architecture, engineering, and construction services firm) + Harris and STV Group STV Group, Inc., is a private employee-owned corporation specializing in engineering, architectural, planning and construction management services, serving the building and facilities, transportation and infrastructure, and construction management markets. to design the terminal. Daniel Libeskind, the master architect for the entire World Trade Center site, will oversee the project. Currently, the transportation terminal is expected to include a PATH station and pedestrian concourses leading to the Hudson River ferry station and 14 subway lines. In describing its vision for the project, the Port Authority has compared it to a Grand Central Terminal for Lower Manhattan. "When the hub will come to fruition, it will have a PATH terminal serving 67,000 commuters daily, a street-level grand point of arrival, and pedestrian connections to TriBeCa, the World Financial Center, and the Fulton Street transit hub," said Greg Trevor, a spokesman for the Port Authority. "This project would lay the necessary foundation for the economic revitalization of Downtown." The Port Authority is still in negotiations with Calatrava, DMJM, and STV STV Single Transferable Vote STV Star Trek: Voyager STV Samanyolu TV (Turkey) STV Satellite Television STV Scottish Television STV Stranglethorn Vale (World of Warcraft computer game) , but the deal is almost certain to come through. All three are part of the Downtown Design Partnership. "We look forward to working with the Port Authority and PATH on the design of this new centerpiece for the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan," said Dominick M. Servedio, chief executive officer of STV Group, in an official statement. "The world's great transportation hubs are places of gathering as much as transit," said Santiago Calatrava. "The Port Authority board of commissioners has clearly expressed its aspiration to create such a transportation hub at the World Trade Center site's PATH terminal--to ennoble en·no·ble tr.v. en·no·bled, en·no·bling, en·no·bles 1. To make noble: "that chastity of honor . . . this utilitarian facility and make it worthy of this ground." Libeskind has developed the guidelines for the terminal and the other architects will handle the final design and engineering work, according to the Port Authority. The PATH station is expected to be completed by 2006, with other elements being added as the World Trade Center project moves along. |
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