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Renderings: New Two Penn Plaza Will Be 65% Less Soul-Crushing
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Christopher Robbins
Published Mar 16, 2016
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Two Penn Plaza just got Seven Year Itched. According to YIMBY, Bjarke Ingels, the Guy Fieri of Starchitecture, has redesigned the office tower above Penn Station where black dress socks have desperate trysts with fluorescent light bulbs into an asymmetrical pedestrian-friendly retail plaza.
Vornado Realty Trust is developing the 1.6 million square-foot building, and the secret ingredient is that transparent elixir that is as timeless as it is tireless: glass.
My heart is undulating! (BIG via YIMBY)
But not just any kind of glass—undulating waves of glass.
Instead of leaving glass flush with the original structure, it would extrude over Seventh Avenue, with undulating waves that would provide visual pizzazz while also helping to shield pedestrians from the elements.
Unless this spiny skirt filters out the Nuts 4 Nuts fumes and the bedbug thrum of the damned, it's not filtering out enough elements. But it is a more fitting host for The Pennsy.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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