Architect and urban planner Vishaan Chakrabarti

By Randy Cohen

Published January 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM EST

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Architect and urban planner Vishaan Chakrabarti strives to address broader problems in his designs—climate change, housing costs, income inequality—and to “create civic delight.” That word "delight" is seldom applied to the current Penn Station.

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