Atlantic Yards SHoP Talk
A couple new bits of info about Atlantic Yards came to light yesterday. First off, The Observer confirmed that the architecture firm SHoP will design AY’s first residential building, which Forest City Ratner may or may not start work on next year. (The firm is designing the Barclays arena along with Ellerbe Becket.) Second, Atlantic…
A couple new bits of info about Atlantic Yards came to light yesterday. First off, The Observer confirmed that the architecture firm SHoP will design AY’s first residential building, which Forest City Ratner may or may not start work on next year. (The firm is designing the Barclays arena along with Ellerbe Becket.) Second, Atlantic Yards Report reported that FCR has launched a new website for the project. The blog notes that the site lacks a few fundamentals, such as “renderings of any building beyond the arena” and “a timeline.” You can see it for yourself here.
SHoP Scores First Apartment Building at Atlantic Yards [Observer]
New, Simplified Atlantic Yards Web Site Emerges [AY Report]
Jugs, Norman has it pared down to 3,228 pages and has begun final edits.
Mr. Oder, how is the book going? How many agents and publishers have expressed interest?
I got time.
…and people wonder why New York is ranked number 1 as the state with the least business-friendly environment.
You can’t build a ham sandwich without an environmental impact study and every special interest group having their say.
“As compared to what happens in NYC, things progress at a different rate in Philadelphia.”
it’s probably easier to build an AY sized project in Philly than it is to buy a six pack of beer on a Sunday.
I can see the cranes and the steel going up from my apartment as well.
The fact that SHoP will be doing the residential building is good. Promising. There’s maybe have a chance that the god-awful superblock plan for the residential development could be disrupted and we could actually get some decent housing out of it.
But I’m dreaming. I’m sure that in order to make the $$ work for the developer they will shoot for luxury and above the already stratospheric market. It’s also not as if SHoP buildings are inexpensive to build (though I’m sure they will take it as a challenge and try.) Yes. Dreamin’. Gonna be luxury above market $$ buildings on a superblock.
I can see the cranes moving form outside my apartment window.
Not NOW, or course. I’m at work. I mean, when I’m home, I can see that. That’s what I meant.
I don’t mind the arena (the rest of the project seems crazy). But not sure what “let’s enjoy the gentrification” means. Let’s see – Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Boerum Hill. Hmm, doesn’t seem to me that any of those areas needed help from Ratner to gentrify. Oh, that’s right, they were “blighted.”