The Observer has a 2,800-word piece on the history of the troubled Santiago Calatrava-designed World Trade Center transportation hub, exploring how the Port Authority's grandest gesture turned into one of its biggest failures. What was supposed to be an inspiring architectural bird-in-flight was value-engineered into a stegosaurus, and even that couldn't keep the costs from ballooning to nearly $4 billion, making it the most expensive transit station built in modern history. And all this for a station that is not even one of the top 10 busiest in the city. [NYO; previously]
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