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Fantastic article about the brilliant design/engineering of the oculus. This station is such a humble little badass.

Reconnecting the Subway with the Sky
http://www.archdaily.com/370396/reco...-with-the-sky/

"...The dome’s interior surface is lined with a cable net whose nearly 1,000 anodized aluminum panels redirect sunlight into the subway system below...The net itself is a form-found structure, meaning that it assumes a specific shape as a result of the forces applied to and within it. (Fabric roofs are another example of this type of structure.) Stretching between the oculus ring and the two floors below it, the net terminates one and a half stories above street level..."

(Many more diagrams, photos, and renderings in the article.)