When the new fulton center transit hub opened in Lower Manhattan in late June, it connected nine subway lines and four stations. (Eventually it’ll also link to New Jersey’s PATH system.) And thanks to some brilliant design work, the $1.4 billion project also connected parts of the deep, dark system to natural daylight for the first time.
The light enters through a 53-foot skylight. Then it encounters something called the Sky Reflector-Net, a gigantic meshlike structure sheathed in hundreds of aluminum reflectors that bounce the light into the transit center and even down to the mezzanine level, four stories underground.
via Wired
Image: Patrick Cashin
