In either case, the monumental train station that is the core of Senator Moynihan's vision will be achieved twice over.
The current $14 billion plan centers on building a monumental train station to replace the crowded and confusing underground corridors of Penn Station.
The developers have proposed inserting 1.2 million square feet of shops and department stores into the station, which critics say would turn the building into a shopping mall rather than a monumental train station like Grand Central Terminal.
The same year Gaudí was consulted about the construction of a monumental train station for Barcelona (the future Estació de França).
During the period 1899 1911, Mayor Antônio Prado widened streets, completed the monumental Luz train station (of British design and materials), built new plazas (including Prado Square), and started construction of the Santa Ifigênia Viaduct, opened in 1913.
The proposed project, known as Moynihan Station, calls for building half a dozen skyscrapers, relocating Madison Square Garden one block away and constructing a monumental new train station on 34th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.
IT is tempting to think of Steve Reich's creative output in two major chunks: the works that came before "Different Trains," his monumental 1988 string quartet based in part on recorded narratives from Jews who survived World War II, and those that followed that watershed.
One evening, we flew from Zurich, where Calatrava keeps his company's European headquarters, and one of his homes, and where he designed his first railway station, to Liège, Belgium, where his monumental high-speed-train station was still under construction.
A distinguished man of the theatre, Ben was a teacher, mentor, producer and innovator marked by his extraordinary dedication to theatre training and monumental achievements in the American theatre.
