Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
We are thrilled to be invited to participate in the MAS Design Challenge to rethink Penn
Station and its environs. SHoP’s plan imagines an expanded main hall of Penn Station as a
bright, airy and easily navigable space that defines a center of a new destination district,
Gotham Gateway. In addition to striking public architecture, the project proposes
significant security and rail capacity improvements that address major needs at the existing
station. The team proposes new development, as well as new parks and amenities, around
the station to help defray the required public investment, including an extension of the High
Line that connects the new station to a glorious and financeable new Madison Square
Garden.