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Looking up at the white ribs of the Oculus sweeping toward One World Trade Center against a pale sky, high-key and minimal.

Ribs and Spire

World Trade Center, New York · March 2021

1D X Mark II, 16 millimetres, f 2.8, 1/125 of a second, ISO 1000

Two buildings arguing about what a line is.

Stand in the right spot at the Oculus and Calatrava's white ribs sweep up into the glass line of One World Trade — a curve and a straight edge sharing the same sky. Shot high-key to keep it about the geometry: no people, no street, just two very different answers to the same question.