More Renderings of New Arena Design
In the wake of Nicolai Ouroussoff’s hammering review of the new design for the Atlantic Yards arena, the Times’ City Room blog dug up some additional renderings from the architecture firm Ellerbe Becket. Atlantic Yards Development: Two Designs, Many Opinions [NY Times] Battle Between Budget and Beauty, Which Budget Won [NY Times] Ouroussoff, Tell Us…
In the wake of Nicolai Ouroussoff’s hammering review of the new design for the Atlantic Yards arena, the Times’ City Room blog dug up some additional renderings from the architecture firm Ellerbe Becket.
Atlantic Yards Development: Two Designs, Many Opinions [NY Times]
Battle Between Budget and Beauty, Which Budget Won [NY Times]
Ouroussoff, Tell Us How You Really Feel [Brownstoner]
The View of the Arena from Flatbush [AY Report]
Hello, Cleveland! [I Cover the Automat]
Who cares!
Everyone hated Gehry’s design when it was first made public and now people are pining for his “high end” touch. Please. Put up a basketball arena where there is currently rubble and weeds, it’s going to have a big ad for a bank on the side of it no matter who made the blueprint.
please stop – I can’t take anymore of these renderings.
I feel like I need to blame someone for this:
Develop Don’t Destroy? for continuous stalling
Ratner? for being a cheap ass with no taste ie. Atlantic Terminal
I joined yesterday’s thread too late but I am shocked and outraged by this bait and switch. What a travesty. Which public officials can we contact to complain? I hope this is a hot button issue in the election – Bloomberg should not allow this betrayal of public trust!
Out-of-Towner men
No knowledge of our streetscape
All peds are not white
[“Our” equals one here
Sorry for the odd cadence
You can handle it]
I appreciate the depiction of traffic and pedestrians. A slighlty more accurate version would show every inch of the roadway blocked by traffic with pedestrians running for their lives as cars use the parking lane as an Indy 500 expressway. That is until you get about 50 feet from the Arena which would be outside the zone the developer and the City consider to be impacted by the arena.
underwhelming.
cutting edge circa 1959.
Oh well, I guess a stadium is all we will get. At least the 20,000 people attending events will spark a flood of bars and Easy on the wallet eats.
Gehry’s totally gone from this project:
(Found here: http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/133901)
Frank Gehry Out of Rest of Yards Too
by Matthew Schuerman
NEW YORK, NY June 09, 2009 —Days after marquee architect Frank Gehry was dropped as the architect of a new Brooklyn Nets Basketball arena, WNYC has learned the architect won’t be involved in other parts of the complex either. WNYC’s Matthew Schuerman reports.
REPORTER: Just two years ago, developer Forest City Ratner was insisting Gehry would design each and every one of the 16 towers that surrounded the arena. Gehry had dubbed one of them Miss Brooklyn. But two sources close to the project say now the developer is not planning to use Gehry any more, citing costs, the architect’s lack of interest and the complications of meshing different architectural styles in a small space. A spokesman for Forest City Ratner said Gehry is still “involved” in the project but did not answer specific questions. The developer says it plans to break ground on the arena this fall, and the first residential building six months later. For WNYC, I’m Matthew Schuerman.
I thought that was supposed to be a haiku, although I question the 1-syllable pronunciation of “our” — some dictionaries list it as a variant, although Merriam Webster actually lists it first.