and really wilgus, though, you have to give him credit with this leap of imagination.cation meant they could take down the enormous train shed and suddenly rethink the entire composition. they brought in a groom of architects, first reid and stem, and then warren retmore. and they created what i think remains to this day, 100 years later, the most advanced three-dimensional rethinking of what a city could be, and cap it with this extraordinary classical building-- the terminal itself-- and wetmore's idea, which was a civil of simple powerful idea, in roman cities there had been agreement triumphal arches, with the three arches, and in the american city, the gateway was not at the edge of the city, as in rome, but in the center of the city, and it was now a railroad station. he picked up the idea of the triple arches of the roman gate and made that the architectural motif of the terminal. >> one of the things i felt so striking when it was originally built inine 71, the "new york times" said this place was neither grand nor central. why did they build the terminal so fa