Santiago Calatrava designed a luminous glass-and-steel transportation hub for ground zero in January 2004. Since then he has been determined to save his design after many setbacks. Yet Calatrava remains unable to overcome the project’s fatal flaw: the incongruity between the extravagance of the architecture and the purpose it serves. His designs result in a monument that celebrates his engineering powers but lacks functionality and need.Known as the "hub," Calatrava created a central hall, something like Grand Central Terminal’s, 50 feet below ground and underneath a soaring elliptical glass-and-steel dome. The dome was supported by a system of curved white beams that suggested the rib cage of a gigantic prehistoric bird. Two enormous wings rise out of the top of this form, partly sheltering a plaza on either side.
Almost 8 years later Calatrava still struggles to get the design in motion, but one thing is for sure, his creation is definitely innovative, creative and original.View Blog Source
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