Architecture Porn

I'm in awe. Out of this world

One of my favorite cast-iron buildings, at the corner of Broadway/Broome

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/inside-a-cutting-edge-new-mosque-in-qatar

Completed in 2021, the Daniel Moynihan Train Hall expanded the existing Penn Station with a 255,000-square-foot, modern rail hub inside the Beaux-Arts Farley Building. Even on a grey day, it seemed magical the first time I arrived there via train.

It was an imposing brutalist building on a hill built as the headquarters for Burroughs Wellcome. I drove by every day for years and had friends who worked there. It was even featured in the movie Brainstorm with Christopher Walken.

Sadly, after Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome, the building was neglected and abandon. It was finally sold to another company under the pretence of salvaging some of it. But the entire building was demolished in 2020. The property is still vacant today.

Constructed for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1911, the station was electrified in 1935 and many original details remain, thankfully.

One of the first buildings designed in the International style