The Oculus

In the middle of the New York financial area, very close to the place where the Twin Towers once rose, a kind of large white bird of glass and steel with extended wings has been raised for a few years. This is Oculus, the project of the Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava to replace the transport exchanger that was destroyed in 2011 by the attacks of the Zero Zone. Oculus is an eye in Latin. Do you then represent this structure to a large ovoid-shaped eye adorned with long eyelashes? It could also be, although each one attributes a likeness according to his imagination: an eye, a bird, a bone skeleton, a great white insect. It tastes or doesn't like it, but the structure doesn't leave anyone indifferent. Oculus contrasts sharply with his environment. Its ovoid shape and light color stand out in a forest of quadrangular skyscrapers with blue or dark façade. Oculus is home to the World Trade Center Station, a large transport exchanger, which connects several lines near New Jersey to the New York Metro. It also serves as a shopping center, as inside it are two levels with numerous shops. On the other hand, the building is connected by an underground passage to the nearby Brookfield Place shopping centre, which in turn opens on a small marina on the banks of the Hudson River. .

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