A long workday in the Big Apple comes to an end. On his way back to the hotel, tired and hungry, the protagonist wanders through the dark, stuffy corridors of the New York subway. And all of a sudden finds himself in a temple of light.
When the towers fell on September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center train station was also destroyed. The Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was commissioned to close the wound. During a visit to New York exactly 15 years later, in the early evening of a day full of inspiring interviews for “the white paper – Designing Design Education”, René Spitz experienced the intoxicating effect of architecture. An escalator catapults him from the darkness of the underground shafts up into another, almost surreal world - a world of light, space, and vastness, in the middle of the urban density of Manhattan. The people in Calatrava's Cathedral of Traffic with its 150 white steel ribs, which are around 40 meters high and provide a view of the blue sky above Ground Zero, look like tiny fish inside a whale. Allegedly the most expensive train station in the world at four billion US dollars, it leaves the visitor intoxicated by the impression of the space - and with pictures like this one on his camera.
