When you take a look at both Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station you see how important the way of civic infrastructure was to developing those buildings. When you look at as well as go inside of Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station you notice how those two buildings are a good reflection of New York City’s civic architectural culture and history. As the subway system began to develop and explode to what we see today Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station each had their own take of what the spacing design and layout would be.

Grand Central Terminal has a unique layout compared to Penn Station when you enter Grand Central Terminal you are walking down a ramp as you enter the main part of the terminal you notice right away the change of height the main part of the terminal I would say is triple height space and there is a lot of open space to walk around and to enter each station. Along with the open space you have one important feature of this terminal is how you have the ability of having natural light come into the space, Grand Central Terminal is the home of many trains that pass by this terminal so you have a lot of people passing by and walking around in this terminal so the layout is good because there is a bunch of open space for people to walk around.

When you now look at and go inside Penn Station in my opinion it’s a completely different layout as well as atmosphere. When walk around Penn Station you feel that you are in a cramp/tight space with not that much open space for people to walk around and observe this station as well as when you are walking you feeling how small this space is because of the height of the space you don’t have no change in height and you have no windows in this station at all so you don’t have access to natural light from the outside. When you compare both Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station you can obvious see the difference in the two as well as it’s layout and what the intend was for each place.