Award

Penn Station East End Gateway, LIRR Concourse Win Design Excellence Award

Penn Station East End Gateway and LIRR Concourse

Over the years, we have played a central role in reimagining Penn Station—the busiest train station in the Western Hemisphere. Spanning multiple blocks, our work at Penn Station comprises several projects, from the adaptive reuse of the Farley Building into Moynihan Train Hall down to the West End Concourse, through the renovated Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) concourse, and out of the East End Gateway on Seventh Avenue. Together, these projects significantly relieve congestion and recapture the grandeur of rail travel to New York.

The East End Gateway and LIRR concourse renovation dramatically overhaul the existing station. Working with Skanska and AECOM, we transformed the infamously dark, overcrowded experience by expanding the concourses, improving wayfinding, and introducing the subterranean spaces to natural light for the first time since the 1960s. 

These interventions reaffirm Penn Station’s role as a civic asset for New York City, and for it, were recognized with an AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards—a program that recognizes exceptional design in transportation architecture across the United States.