| New York's Pennsylvania Stations Contributor(s): Ballon, Hilary (Author), McGrath, Norman (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 0393730786 ISBN-13: 9780393730784 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2002 Annotation: The Creation of Pennsylvania Station (1902-1910) represented one of the great engineering feats of its time, and embodied a powerful vision of grandeur for future public architecture. This richly illustrated book tells the story of the original building, its tragic demolition in the 1960s, and the greatly anticipated opening of the new station in 2003. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial - Transportation | Railroads - General - Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 385.314 |
| LCCN: 2001044232 |
| Series: Norton Professional Books for Architects & Designers |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 8.44" W x 11.14" (2.38 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - New York - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a guided tour through the past, present, and future of great civic architecture in New York City. It tells the story of Pennsylvania Station: the original building, its tragic demolition in the 1960s, and the new station designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and now under construction. In stunning photographs by Norman McGrath the hidden structure of Penn Station is revealed along with the burial of the station beneath Madison Square Garden. Richly illustrated essays by Hilary Ballon and Marilyn Taylor, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill celebrated new chair, on the old and new stations illuminate their connections and indicate how public architecture and transportation planning can enhance the way millions of people experience New York City. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ballon, Hilary: - Hilary Ballon is an architectural historian and professor at Columbia University. She is the curator of "Robert Moses and the Modern City," the 2007 exhibition concurrently at the Queens Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University. She is the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Her previous books include New York's Pennsylvania Stations; The Paris of Henri IV: Architecture and Urbanism, which won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for the Most Distinguished Scholarship in the History of Architecture; and Louis Le Vau: Mazarin's Collège, Colbert's Revenge, which received a medal from the Académie Française. |