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June 2, 2004
New York City's Metropolitan Transportation
Authority (MTA) has released drawings for a new transit hub
in lower Manhattan, to be designed by Grimshaw, the firm led
by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. The new building would link stations
for nine subway lines, and would stand at the corner of Broadway
and Fulton Street, about a block from the site of the World
Trade Center. It would connect to Santiago Calatrava's proposed
PATH station by underground passageway.
The building itself would be a 50-foot tall glass pavilion,
with a tapering steel-and-glass dome rising from the middle.
The design incorporates two small stores at street level,
and preserves the Corbin
Building, an ornate office building from 1889 that sits
adjacent to the new subway entrance.
The building is expected to cost $750 million, and will be
completed in 2007. Grimshaw collaborated with Arup engineering,
James Carpenter Design Associates, Daniel Frankfurt, Lee Harris
Pomeroy Associates and staff from the MTA.
Kevin Lerner
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