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zoinkability t1_iufs589 wrote

Reply to comment by TehWildMan_ in ELI5 Why are airport ceiling so high? by TrShry

The exhibit A for this is the 60s Penn Station in Manhattan. They kept the basic functionality of the station but by putting it in a bunch of tunnels they turned it into a claustrophobic, unpleasant place.

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_Haverford_ t1_iugbdt0 wrote

As someone who uses contemporary Penn weekly, thinking about the old structure makes me so sad. Penn Station is a dismal, depressing place. Even the improvements over by the LIRR suck. They set up a whole room of diffuse lights to simulate daylight, which sounds great... Walking through at 10:00pm at night and suddenly being in "daylight" is nauseating.

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