A closer look
New York City spent over four billion dollars constructing the World Trade Center Oculus, making it the most expensive train station ever built, and its roof immediately began leaking. The architect designed the structure to look like a beautiful dove taking flight from the hands of a child, which sounds incredibly poetic until you realize it is essentially just an overpriced shopping mall that occasionally lets you board a train to New Jersey. Despite the staggering cost and nearly twelve years of construction delays, the blindingly white Italian marble floors become terrifying slip-and-slide death traps the second it rains, and the futuristic skylight routinely drips water onto angry commuters. It perfectly embodies the American dream of funneling billions of public dollars into the pockets of high-concept artists while completely forgetting to build a functional roof over a simple transit hub
