Envisioning Atlantic Yards Through Google Earth
Blogger Invisible Man has, in his own words, been “geeking out” with the beta version of Google Earth that’s available for the Mac. One neat feature is the ability to overlay images on top of the satellite imagery. The view above is IM’s effort to visualize the scale of the current Atlantic Yard’s proposal. Blends…
Blogger Invisible Man has, in his own words, been “geeking out” with the beta version of Google Earth that’s available for the Mac. One neat feature is the ability to overlay images on top of the satellite imagery. The view above is IM’s effort to visualize the scale of the current Atlantic Yard’s proposal. Blends right in, eh?
AY Visualization in Google Earth [Invisible Man]
Feel free to speak what you think those people felt, but, once again, don’t speak for me. I know what I feel. I love NYC and I want this development to come to pass.
Yeah, 7:59… Some people also supported the demolition of Penn Station, the construction of the BQE through Brooklyn Heights, and the plan to run a highway through Washington Square Park. Some people looked forward to all of those things. Those people maybe didn’t know it, but they hated New York City.
Speak for yourself, anon 6:10. Some people actually support this project and are looking forward to its (inevitable) arrival.
Hans, darling, we’re ALL going to feel “flat to non-existent” when this bugger gets built.
Using google earth, I set positioned myself at Myrtle and Clermont (where I live), tilted the view so it was nearly horizontal and set the view south, so I’d have some sense of what the project would look like from my part of the nabe. The google earth rendering does indeed make the stadium project huge — like a mideval cathedral towering over a french farming town. But as David pointed out, the problem with Google earth is that it made every brownstown, church steeple, and high rise between me and the stadium flat to non-existant. Using this application, I still have no idea how the project would appear from the northern part of Ft. Greene.
MacIntosh is so ten minutes ago.
Concerned about light? Sell your brownstone and buy a high floor condo in the development. More light and better views!
Eryximachus –
Agree with you about Downtown Brooklyn being on that scale. Absolutely. And it was recently zoned to support it.
Only problem is, all this Atlantic Yards development is in Prospect Heights and (now) northern Park Slope. And the people in those neighborhoods and surrounding ones are being locked out of the development process. Even though, a) their homes are under threat of seizure, b) their lives and properties are being directly affected, and c) their tax dollars are being used to subsidize this private development.
The other problem is: this whole “tower in a garden” theme that Gehry’s puking out is such fecking ’60s dead-streetlife crap. Um, hasn’t every housing project in the city proved that superblocks don’t work?
Why are we getting this crap from a “starchitect.”
The views won’t be affected, as the main sights are in the opposite direction.