World Trade Center Transportation Hub

Cost/benefit calculations aside, Santiago Calatrava's beam-sculpture may be seen as one of New York's great public spaces, thanks to ingenious engineering.

World Trade Center, 290 Broadway, New York, NY

Owner: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New York, NY
Architect and Structural Engineer: Santiago Calatrava LLC, New York, NY
Architect, Structural Engineer of Record, Mechanical Engineer: The Downtown
Design Partnership (STV/AECOM joint venture in association with Santiago
Calatrava and Parsons Transportation Group), New York, NY
Construction Manager: Tishman Turner JV, New York, NY
Structural Steel Fabricator: Skanska Koch, Carteret, NJ
Structural Steel Erector:
DCM Erectors, New York, NY;
Skanska Koch, Carteret, NJ

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