Up until this class I never new Penn station was such a monstrous building. Inspired again by the beaux-arts Mckim  truly designed a building that was meant for a great metropolitan city. We see the vast entrance which he borrow from the Roman’s Baths of Caracalla after his visit there and sadly he never got the chance to see his work completed as he died before completion.

Although Penn station in it of itself was a  momentous  structure the infrastructure it laid was astonishing. We saw how with great precision and engineering  the vision that a tunnel under the Hudson river was built. Sandhogs risk their lives and devoted  many hours for cheap labor constructing the tunnel.

It was very disturbing watching the demolition crew bring down the station. I can see now how people can grow such emotional connections to something  like a building.