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After more than a decade, an unfathomable amount of money, and hundreds of thinkpieces on the subject, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub — and the Oculus, the spiky, controversial sculpture that tops it — is set to make its debut to the public. The official word is that the Santiago Calatrava-designed project will open next week (when Curbed recently visited the site for a tour, a worker on the site said that March 3rd would be the day, but Port Authority wouldn’t confirm that), but it’ll do so without fanfare.

To some degree, the reluctance to celebrate what should be a huge, crowning achievement is understandable. Calatrava’s design for the Hub was first unveiled in 2004, and at the time, the Port Authority estimated that the…

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