Construction Brief:
- A new subway/transit/retail station at Fulton Street in lower Manhattan in New York City combines engineering and design to get natural light down to travelers.
- Beneath a skylight, a cylindrical net tube hangs in the shaft and is covered around the inside with more than 900 reflecting panels that bounce light down.
- Workers hung the net and then attached the panels one-by-one from lifts and scaffolds earlier this year, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to have the station open in 2014.
Dive Insight:
The MTA wanted to have more than another underground warren of walkways and tracks in the new Fulton Street Center. The $1.4 billion project with have 65,000 square feet of retail space along with its transit aspects.
