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I wonder where the past nineteen years have gone, between the present day as I pen theses lines and that when the whole world fell into tragedy, horror and carnage -that mournful day of the collapse of New York's Twin Towers? What happened during this time lapse? Did it give birth only to the worst, with the absurd war that followed, fueled by the lies of George W. Bush and the disastrous decisions of his administration, and in a row the escalation of atrocities that the islamist hydra inflicted on the world since September 11? From al qaeda to taliban, from taliban to daesh, from the Bouddhas of Afghanistan gone up in smoke to the world's nations mutilated by the cohort of dreadful attacks that have blooded them, relentlessly ?

In 2016, I learned that the PATH Station (the World Trade Center’s Connection Hub located in the late Towers’ basement, a link between the Subway's network and that of Commuting Trains), was nearing completion. I had heard that the project had been entrusted to the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava but at the time of 2016 I had no idea which shape this new structure would take. I only knew that the station's terminal was not to be a subterranean structure only, and that the building would be located within the former Towers' perimeter, consequently very close to the unique skyscraper that succeeded them.

I had a shock when I saw what the building looked like : the One World Trade Center's new station, named "The Oculus", had a shape of a white dove taking flight at the vicinity of the new tower's baser.

With his modern and daring architectural language, Calatrava had thus meant to deliver a message of spirituality through his work. The architect was not content with a mere formal research, he willed to go beyond and to give a meaning to his creation. I was very moved to see a symbolic similar to that I had imagined in 2002, coming to life at the foot of the new tower. In a different shape, but at the same message’s service.