REBUILD is a project of RWC Atelier & Co.

AN INITIATIVE DECADES IN THE MAKING.

The idea of rebuilding is as old as human history. From the rebuilding of the Pantheon under Hadrian, the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, or the Shinto temples of Japan, we have always been moved to rebuild and renew important lost or destroyed parts of our architectural heritage.

REBUILD is the banner under which Richard Cameron and RWC Atelier and Co have worked to propose the contemporary rebuilding of the destroyed Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Madison Square Church, and now the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.

Each of these projects is inspired by the incredible success of the rebuilding of Dresden, Christ the Savior Cathedral of Moscow, and the Royal Palace in Berlin, among other recent projects around the world.

Beginning with his undergraduate thesis project at the University of Toronto to rebuild the Tuileries Palace at the Louvre, each of these projects has been conceived as standing in the long line of rebuilding projects carried on by others, as a way of inspiring us to build as beautifully and meaningfully as we once did.

REBUILD PENN STATION

REBUILD THE TUILERIES

REBUILD THE HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA

REBUILD MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

REBUILD MADISON SQUARE CHURCH

Recent press & EVENTS

bloomberg penn station

BLOOMBERG—What Should a New Penn Station Look Like?

NY DAILY NEWS—Let New Yorkers Pick the New Penn Station

THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER—A Garden Variety Dilemma

COOPER UNION-Bold Visions for a New Penn Station

 
 

INSTAGRAM

'EIRENE' (Peace) Capriccio after Bernini's sketch for the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Peter's and a cupola from Madison Square Garden by Stanford White. RWC Atelier 2023 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called childre
Sometimes sketching random things-imaginary designs, buildings in Rome from Cipriani's illustrated et al keeps my hand in practice and the miles going g by on the train and after leads to design ideas for real projects-really doodling with a purpose.
One of the lesser known courtyards of Rome just down the street from the Trevi Fountain-the side loggia of the home of the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome. Imagine entering this every day with Borromini as your professor...
The Villa Medici in Rome, home to the French Academy since 1803. All the great Rome prize winners worked in this building sending their rigorous and painterly surveys of the Roman and Greek monuments back to Paris (see previous post). I remember seei
Santi Luca e Martina in Rome. Cortona's great church in the Roman Forum next to the arch of Septimus Severus and church of the Academia di S. Luca, the world's first academy of fine art. It has been a focus of study for many years since it was first
The sublime student work(!) Of Emmanuel Brune, 1er Grand Prix 1863 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The first image sits beside my drawing table to remind me of the standard to aim for in design and delineation...