As the ideas for rebuilding Penn Station were being developed, one of the most frequently asked questions was what to do about the current Madison Square Garden. The garden has already moved four times in its history, and its current location directly above the train tracks is incompatible with any good solution to Penn Station. While we eventually identified a number of potential sites for a new Madison Square Garden, the one with the most potential is clearly at the corner of Broadway and 34th Street.

Stanford White’s Madison Square Garden was a triumph of architectural style and modern entertainment at its completion in 1890. Its dominant features on Madison Square Park were the glorious roof garden and the belvedere tower crowned by the Augustus St. Gaudens figure of Diana.

RWC Atelier & Co’s proposal is to build a modern arena and entertainment complex on the site of Herald and Greeley Square with an operable roof dome and roof garden and a belvedere tower inspired by White’s extraordinary building, and to crown it with a replica of the original statue of Diana.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN REBUILT AT HERALD SQUARE—SKETCHES (ALL DESIGN SKETCHES COPYRIGHT RWC ATELIER & CO. CONTACT FOR PERMISSION TO USE)

 

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'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...