Madison Square Garden (New York City, New York)
USA /
New Jersey /
West New York /
New York City, New York /
Pennsylvania Plaza, 4
World
/ USA
/ New Jersey
/ West New York
World / United States / New York
arena, basketball court, ice hockey rink, 1968_construction
8-story arena completed in 1968. Designed by Charles Luckman, it seats a maximum of 19,522 people. This entertainment complex also includes a 5,600 theater, a 36,000-square-foot exposition center, and two restaurants. It is built atop Pennsylvania Station, one of the first of its kind to be built above the platforms of an active railroad station. Public outcry over the demolition of Pennsylvania Station structure—an outstanding example of Beaux-Arts architecture—led to the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. This is the fourth arena to carry the MSG name: the first two were actually on Madison Square, at Madison Avenue and 26th Street.
The legendary sports venue is the home of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, as well as boxing matches, concerts, ice shows and the circus. In 1991, Garden owners spent $200 million to renovate facilities and add 89 suites in place of hundreds of upper-tier seats. The project was designed by Ellerbe Becket. Madison Square Garden's $1 billion second renovation took place mainly over three offseasons. It was set to begin after the 2009–10 hockey/basketball seasons, but was delayed until after the 2010–11 seasons. New features include a larger entrance with interactive kiosks, retail, climate controlled space, and broadcast studio; larger concourses; new lighting and LED video systems with HDTV; new seating; two new pedestrian walkways suspended from the ceiling to allow fans to look directly down onto the games being played below; more dining options; and improved dressing rooms, locker rooms, green rooms, upgraded roof, and production offices.
The arena is basically a drum in shape, ringed at the west and east by various projections of different heights, similar to what was applied by Philip Johnson to his New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair. The original facade of the drum is tan stone panels between inset concrete piers. The projecting sections at the corners are dark-tinted glass curtain walls that curve to follow the contour of the drum. At the far west end is a 4-story flat section clad in light-grey metal panels. The roof is a 404-foot diameter steel cable suspension roof, the first permanent roof of this kind in New York City. The roof system may be likened to a bicycle wheel mounted horizontally on top of 48 steel columns so arranged as to support the outer rim: although the hub is unsupported it remains rigid because the steel cables connecting the rim and hub are under tension. The roof is only 21 ft less than the extreme diameter of the 153 ft high drum-shape building.
www.thegarden.com/
The legendary sports venue is the home of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, as well as boxing matches, concerts, ice shows and the circus. In 1991, Garden owners spent $200 million to renovate facilities and add 89 suites in place of hundreds of upper-tier seats. The project was designed by Ellerbe Becket. Madison Square Garden's $1 billion second renovation took place mainly over three offseasons. It was set to begin after the 2009–10 hockey/basketball seasons, but was delayed until after the 2010–11 seasons. New features include a larger entrance with interactive kiosks, retail, climate controlled space, and broadcast studio; larger concourses; new lighting and LED video systems with HDTV; new seating; two new pedestrian walkways suspended from the ceiling to allow fans to look directly down onto the games being played below; more dining options; and improved dressing rooms, locker rooms, green rooms, upgraded roof, and production offices.
The arena is basically a drum in shape, ringed at the west and east by various projections of different heights, similar to what was applied by Philip Johnson to his New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair. The original facade of the drum is tan stone panels between inset concrete piers. The projecting sections at the corners are dark-tinted glass curtain walls that curve to follow the contour of the drum. At the far west end is a 4-story flat section clad in light-grey metal panels. The roof is a 404-foot diameter steel cable suspension roof, the first permanent roof of this kind in New York City. The roof system may be likened to a bicycle wheel mounted horizontally on top of 48 steel columns so arranged as to support the outer rim: although the hub is unsupported it remains rigid because the steel cables connecting the rim and hub are under tension. The roof is only 21 ft less than the extreme diameter of the 153 ft high drum-shape building.
www.thegarden.com/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden
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Coordinates: 40°45'1"N 73°59'36"W
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