During the early days of thinking about the rebuilding of Pennsylvania Station it became clear that there were a number of other important McKim Mead and White buildings which could-and should-be rebuilt. One of these is the great Madison Square Church, designed by Stanford White in 1906 and demolished in 1919.

Madison Square Church stood for only 13 years south of Madison Square Garden facing the park. It was a remarkable design in a byzantine revival style almost unique in White’s work and one of his finest designs. Fragments of the church were salvaged and reused in other buildings, including the Tiffany windows.

RWC Atelier and Co proposes rebuilding White’s masterpiece in a new park and square sited directly north of the rebuilt Penn Station, shown in the sketches here on our website. Future renderings will show the rebuilt church integrated into its new urban setting in relation to the station.

 

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'EIRENE' (Peace) Capriccio after Bernini's sketch for the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Peter's and a cupola from Madison Square Garden by Stanford White. RWC Atelier 2023 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called childre
Sometimes sketching random things-imaginary designs, buildings in Rome from Cipriani's illustrated et al keeps my hand in practice and the miles going g by on the train and after leads to design ideas for real projects-really doodling with a purpose.
One of the lesser known courtyards of Rome just down the street from the Trevi Fountain-the side loggia of the home of the Accademia di S. Luca in Rome. Imagine entering this every day with Borromini as your professor...
The Villa Medici in Rome, home to the French Academy since 1803. All the great Rome prize winners worked in this building sending their rigorous and painterly surveys of the Roman and Greek monuments back to Paris (see previous post). I remember seei
Santi Luca e Martina in Rome. Cortona's great church in the Roman Forum next to the arch of Septimus Severus and church of the Academia di S. Luca, the world's first academy of fine art. It has been a focus of study for many years since it was first
The sublime student work(!) Of Emmanuel Brune, 1er Grand Prix 1863 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The first image sits beside my drawing table to remind me of the standard to aim for in design and delineation...