John McAslan & Partners has been appointed to redesign New York City’s outdated and overcrowded Penn Station as part of a project team led by FXCollaborative Architects and WSP USA.

The practice’s work on the renovation of London’s King’s Cross Station a decade ago, which delivered a new naturally-lit concourse, was cited in the appointment announcement by New York State governor Kathy Hochul.

Penn Station is the United States’ busiest transport hub, and was serving 600,000 travellers every weekday before the coronavirus pandemic. But the underground station – which hosts Amtrak, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and NJ Transit trains – has long been considered in need of updating.

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