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In a way, it’s every architect’s dream – to re-envision Penn Station and Madison Square Garden in New York. The Municipal Art Society of New York is giving four design firms that chance with a challenge to be announced Thursday.
The firms — Diller Scofidio + Renfro, SHoP Architects, SOM and H3 Hardy Collaboration — will have until May 29 to propose new designs that will be unveiled to the public that day at the TimesCenter on West 41st Street. “We’re really trying to unlock people’s imaginations about the very real potential of a new arena and of a new Penn Station,” said Vin Cipolla, the society’s president, in an interview.