Bloomberg Editorial Disses Yards Arena Design
“The result still smacks of hack expediency. One of SHoP’s overlapping metal bands thins as it arches into a broad porch over a bleak plaza, where Gehry had planned to build a high, glass-walled public space. Instead we would have a toad hunkering at one of the most important intersections in Brooklyn, that of Flatbush…
Here to make you sad, BJ. I like this design better than the other two. But I still don’t want public money and eminent domain used to build it. And, to correctly quote Architect66, that is not the right spot for a stadium.
Don’t slam the George Forman Grill! You get grease all over the place!
Architect66 is correct – any design will be slammed by the anti-AY crowd simply because they don’t want an arena there.
architect66- I’ll look at those. Thanks.
bxgirl – I like how SHoP is focused on the process of design, fabrication, and construction. In a product oriented world, that is not so typical. Agree about the effect of the cheese-grater like renderings for the “arena” – but they’ve done some really fine non-cheese-grater-like in the city, (porter house, mulberry street apartment building).
@Pigeon – Um, no, I’m not “incorrect”
I agree with your interpretation that most folks in the city hear/assume/read “Bloomberg” as a reference to the mayor, but the point remains that it is also common to cite ‘Bloomberg’ News articles that way.
Don’t assume it was an editorial decision to be provocative just because you’re not familiar with the convention.
Well, he’s a well paid architectural critic despite being “supremely irrelevant>”
Architect66- I’ll grant they are interesting but overall their work leaves me cold.But I’m not a fan of building exteriors that look like cheese graters. There are others I like much better- including much of Gehry’s work, actually.
It’s not that I (and thousands of others) don’t like the building lalaland. It’s that I don’t like paying for it. Gehry wasn’t the issue. The $2 billion we were giving Ratner to, ahem, build affordable housing was.
If I’m being robbed I’d rather I get robbed for a lower amount. Even if it gets spent on something that looks like this.
I think the arena design is very interesting and fresh. Shop’s work is usually pretty good stuff. But architectural critics are in the business of not liking much of anything. It is one of the reasons they are so supremely irrelevent.