The concourse was designed by Gensler, the architectural firm.
The 50,000-square-foot concourse is designed to serve tracks 1 to 12.
Mr. Angelidakis said that his cool, unnerving concourse was designed as a "soft, quiet, serene space, almost like going on vacation someplace.
The transportation concourse is designed to stretch from the World Financial Center eastward to a new Fulton Transit Center, to be built above the tangle of subway lines that have stops at the Fulton Street and Broadway-Nassau Street stations.
At 165th Street and the Grand Concourse, Arquitectonica has designed a faceted $8.2 million addition to the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
It is squarely at home on the Concourse, which was designed in the late 19th century to be a speedway for people coming from Manhattan to the parks of the north Bronx.
The concourse, to be designed by Transit Link Consultants, will improve the flow of passengers to and from New Jersey Transit's platforms and allow it to add three or four trains an hour, said George D. Warrington, the agency's executive director.
A young French engineer named Louis Risse designed the Concourse when the area's roads were, you write, "elongated mud ponds, punctured here and there with turbid pools of stagnant water and malodorous filth".
These included the 1898 Harlem Speedway (running from the west end of the viaduct up what is now the Harlem River Drive) and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, designed in 1891 and built in stages.
Most recognized is Brushstrokes in Flight, a sculpture in front of the Concourse B security checkpoint designed by Roy Lichtenstein.
