Gensler has redesigned Baltimore’s Penn Station (BPS) to be a multimodal hub that is open to the public. Set across the train tracks from the existing Beaux Arts features of the 1911 edifice, the architects offer a new station which will stage a “train as theater” concept that “sets the design apart experientially, putting the old station and the transit activity itself on display.”
BPS is Amtrak’s 8th busiest station and the second busiest in the MARC, the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area commuter rail network. The original station was designed in 1911 in a Beaux Arts style for the Pennsylvania Railroad. It features a granite
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