[urbanlife]

There seriously are way too many different degrees of arguments going on in this thread....which often times happens when someone brings up the word "modernism" without defining what they mean by it, or what specific spectrum of modernism we are talking about because there are different styles within modernism, and I would argue that today's architecture isn't actually modernism, but a collection of different contemporary things that are going on at the same time that have yet to have enough time to full gain a name for itself to truly define what it should be called.


But if the specifics about this was simply to be about Penn Station, then I think the history of the demolition of Penn is an important one. No one thought anyone would tear down such a key landmark and replace it, that demolition is what gave preservationists a true foundation to protect older buildings and neighborhoods and Penn Station's demolition may be the key that saved a large percentage of Manhattan from the wrecking ball.