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Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has unveiled its vision to transform the Beaux-Arts 30th Street Station and its surrounding area in Philadelphia.
SOM’s master plan covers a 175-acre (70 hectares) area around the station, which is currently the third busiest in the U.S. and projected to see a further increase in transit activity.
The firm worked in association with Parsons Brinckerhoff, OLIN, and HR&A Advisors on the project, which will involve the overhaul of the 1933 station building designed by Chicago architecture firm Graham, Anderson, Probst and White.