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New York’s $4 Billion Train Station Takes Shape

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Santiago Calatrava’s head-turning World Trade Center Transportation Hub has assumed its full form, nearly a decade after its design was revealed. In light of this, the New York Times has taken a critical look at just how the winged station’s budget soared. “Its colossal avian presence may yet guarantee the hub a place in the pantheon of civic design in New York. But it cannot escape another, more ignominious distinction as one of the most expensive and most delayed train stations ever built.” The complete report, here.

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Cite: Karissa Rosenfield. "New York’s $4 Billion Train Station Takes Shape" 02 Dec 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed 29 Mar 2025. <https://www.archdaily.com/574227/new-york-s-4-billion-train-station-takes-shape> ISSN 0719-8884

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