The Grand Penn Community Alliance (GPCA) presented its proposal for the renovation of Penn Station in New York Historical and outlined Beaux Arts Fame and a total relocation of Madison Square Garden (MSG) on Tuesday, March 11th.
Under the direction of the former New York City Chief of Urban Design Alexandros Washburn and financed by the National Civic Art Society (NCAS), a non -profit organization Washington, which supports the classic architecture in the federal buildings, the proposal of President Trump appears to build up after the slow trigger plans of Penn Station. Governor Hochul spoke with Trump about the allocation of federal dollars for improving the station last November after he was elected.
The Board of the NCAS, founded in 2002, includes Thomas D. Klingenstein-a right-wing political scientist, Trump Ally and CEO of the Conservative Claremont Institute Think Tank, who made contributions to Republican campaigns and Pacs during the 2024 election season.
The renderings published by the Grand Penn Community Alliance show a classic facade, which is lined with Doric columns in front of the Penn 2 Business Center from the frontado Realty Trust at the entrance to the Seventh Avenue of the station. The GPCA's proposal would also compensate for the controversial circular modern architecture of the Madison Square Garden to make room for a grassy public square that is about as large as Bryant Park and a fountain.
Although MSG was the most famous entertainment and sports event location in the world, MSG triggered the international outrage for her role in the demolition of the original Beaux Arts Arts Penn station in 1963. The place opened by many, opened in 1968, which was opened in 1968, opened the station to an underground core that rely on the underground core, and asked the architecture historian scully that “one was spoken by a Gernhistorian architecture historian with the cities. One is now being shaped like a rat. “
In an interview with HyperallergicNCAS President Justin Shubow remembered that the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan described the demolition of the original stop as the “greatest act of vandalism in the history of New York”.
In 2013, the Manhattan Community Board 5 voted a ten -year period for the operating permit of the arena instead of allowing it to run permanently. Several architectural companies proposed the relocation of the event location to renovate and expand the Penn Station, and in 2023 the same community board MSG only received a five -year operating license, whereby he campaigned for the location to be used for the benefit of the station.
In the same year, the Executive Vice President of the MSG, Joel Fisher, proposed that the venue would be accessible to move across the street in Seventh Avenue, where the world -famous and now derived Hotel Pennsylvania was. The action also belongs to Borseado, which intends to develop the location, the Penn15, in a cloud scratch office tower if the market conditions match the plan.
Hyperallergic Contacted the Vornado Realty Trust and the Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corporation for a comment. In addition to the relocation of MSG, the alliance renderings for the commuter hall are reminiscent of the high ceilings and the glass inputs of the original Penn Station Concourse -completely with a replica of the original clock -that would connect to the Moynihane Zughalle within the James A. Farley post via an underground tunnel. The Boarding Concourse would also have 18 feet high ceilings and several elevators and escalators.
Washburn, a chief architect of the development of Moynihan Train Hall, estimates that the overhaul of the Penn Station would cost around 7.5 billion US dollars, with 3.5 billion US dollars of the relocation of MSG. In the FAQ section of the GPCA website for the project, the Allianz notes that the cost estimate “1 billion US dollar should cost less than the systems proposed by New York State and Amtrak”, which are both MSG above the station.
“What we do here is ultimately a bourgeois step,” said Washburn in a call HyperallergicDirectly on the Ephebian oath for classic Athenian young people who have undertaken to leave their city better than they found.
Regarding that Penn becomes a center for unshakable people, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, Washburn said that public toilets and public seats were undoubtedly included in the proposal, “while many designers simply take out, [those amenities] Because they don't want to deal with the problem. “
In response to the potential concern, both to President Trump's participation and the controversial recall of the classic architecture, Shubow and Washburn stood the memorable appearance of the original station.
“If people of the architecture profile, they warmly welcomes this. But when President Trump is committed, it doesn't mean that we will not get a wonderful station, ”said Shubow. “The design speaks for itself – regardless of what people could think about Trump's politics, this will make all New York proud.”
Washburn, who is half Greek, announced that “classic architecture is natural” for him, and expressed that the form acts as a “interaction between natural and classic” and the use of the Acanthus leaf motif by the Corinthian column cited as an example.
In January, Trump published a memorandum entitled “Promotion of the beautiful federal citizens' architecture”, which required “regional, traditional and classic architecture”. The memo initiated an immediate setback of groups, including the American Institute of Architects, who said that the preferences of the president could suffocate architectural freedom and innovation.