Philadelphia 30th Street Station District Plan Philadelphia Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

摘要

"The only station stop in Philadelphia," as Amtrak conductors have declared it for eons, 30th Street Station is the central node in a neighborhood that has long seemed on the cusp of some kind of breakthrough. With 11 million riders passing through every day (a figure that could pass 20 million over the next two decades), the grand Neoclassical edifice is a stone's throw from the University of Pennsylvania campus and backs directly onto the Schuylkill River, which separates the station from downtown.