In many places around the world, custom-made products from Gersthof’s facade specialist s Seele are in demand. Now the company has been working on a train station in New York.
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Gersthofen to New York City: The Gersthofer facade construction specialist Seele is realizing a steel and glass roof for Penn Station. As part of the Penn Station expansion, the neighboring historic post office building was converted into a modern station concourse and opened at the beginning of the year. Today’s Moynihan Train Hall offers commuters and travelers a light-flooded atmosphere thanks to a net-like roof made of steel and glass. Also new is the East End Gateway access to the underground station on 33rd Street, for which the company constructed a filigree rope facade.
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The new entrance to Penn Station in New York, built by the Gersthof facade specialist Seele, is spectacular.
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The Moynihan Train Hall is one of numerous projects that the facade specialist has implemented in the US metropolis. The complex steel-and-glass construction for the roofing of the two inner courtyards of the former post office consists of a total of five domes and covers an area of around 5400 square meters. The new construction brings daylight into the historic existing building.
Seele designs and manufactures glass structures in Gersthofen
The roof was designed and manufactured in Gersthofen – with around 2940 individual, diamond-shaped aluminum glass elements with a sun protection coating and 624 tons of steel. Due to the uniqueness of the components, each of the elements was coded during production so that the positions on the construction site can be assigned immediately. As a result, the on-site assembly was carried out quickly.
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The new entrance to Penn Station in New York, built by the Gersthof facade specialist Seele, is spectacular.
Image: Field Condition
The major Moynihan Train Hall project started in 2017 at the company’s own test and inspection center in Gersthofen. A section of the roof structure in its original size was subjected to various load and performance tests under realistic conditions. Among other things, the engineers use wind generators to simulate strong storms.
In the immediate vicinity of the Moynihan Train Hall, seele set a further architectural accent with the new East End Gateway, a new entrance to the underground Penn Station. 105 tons of steel and almost 140 double-curved panes were installed and offer a clear view of the Empire State Building through a glass roof. (THE)
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