Four Architecture Firms Challenged to Redesign Penn Station

Last fall, nonprofit the Municipal Art Society asked three major architecture firms to reimagine the future of Grand Central. Now, MAS is doing the same thing for Penn Station. In a design challenge announced today in the Times, MAS is asking Santiago Calatrava, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, SHoP Architects, and SOM to rethink the much-maligned train station and the arena that sits atop it, Madison Square Garden. “We’re really trying to unlock people’s imaginations about the very real potential of a new arena and of a new Penn Station,” MAS President Vin Cipolla told the Times.