At a much-anticipated forum in Manhattan today, four firms presented plans for moving New York’s Madison Square Garden away from its current location above cramped and claustrophobic Pennsylvania Station. Their proposals included schemes for a new transportation hub that could rise on the station's site.
Surprisingly, each firm chose a different location for the reimagined Garden. Diller Scofidio + Renfro placed their arena above the Farley Post Office, just west of Penn Station, while Skidmore, Owings & Merrill chose the block south of Farley. SHoP Architects would create its new Garden on the site of the Morgan postal sorting facility, a few blocks south and west of Farley, in a park that would be linked to an extension of the High Line. And, most audaciously, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture would situate the new Garden on a 16-acre platform in the Hudson River between 33rd and 37th Streets, adjacent to the Javits Convention Center.
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