“Penn Station did not make you feel comfortable; it made you feel important.” [...]
Unlike McKim’s monument, today’s Penn Station — where many visitors, both domestic and international, encounter New York City for the first time — certainly does not make you feel important. Comparing the vanished terminal with this tawdry replacement, the Yale architectural historian Vincent Scully once wrote, “One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat.”
— nytimes.com
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.. and landed on someone's lawn... demoing the penn station was the biggest crime in american architecture and urban planning.
A tragedy.
Money. It built these wonderful places and tears them down. Hard to see how one elevates a commercial venture into a cultural icon, but it would be wonderful if we knew. Better yet, it would be wonderful if we could agree on the simplest things. We, as architects, might have a stronger voice in helping to save our cultural heritage.
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