New Barclay's Center Design Revealed
The new SHoP design for the Barclay’s Center, Bruce Ratner’s envisioned home for the Nets, has just gone live on the center’s website. There are lots of different views on rotation and Curbed has pulled out a bunch of still shots. Not surprisingly, Develop Don’t Destroy is already out with a release calling it “lipstick…
The new SHoP design for the Barclay’s Center, Bruce Ratner’s envisioned home for the Nets, has just gone live on the center’s website. There are lots of different views on rotation and Curbed has pulled out a bunch of still shots. Not surprisingly, Develop Don’t Destroy is already out with a release calling it “lipstick on a corrupt pig.” Regardless of your position on Atlantic Yards, there’s no denying it’s sexier than the most recent renderings, though that’s not saying a whole lot.
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It has a unique facade that will put it on the map. It’s not glassy and gaudy like a Gehry design. It will not dominate or disrupt the skyline.
Bottom line, this is the best rendering and concept for the stadium to date.
With a only a few months left to stick a shovel in the ground this is it.
Love it or loath it, it will outlast you, so get used to it.
I was hoping for a giant blonde brick Fedders box with bars on the windows.
Or the insane Gehry one. Whichever.
I hereby declare that this building shall be forever known as “The Platypus”. Mark it down.
Not digging it. Looks like a giant Close ‘N’ Play.
> It resembles a Foreman Grill on the surface of the Death Star.
QOTD. SOTD.
I always thought the DDDB acronym was asinine. How on earth would AY “destroy” Brooklyn? Ridiculous.
DDDB should re-arrange the words in their acromym to “Don’t Develop and Destroy Brooklyn”.
what parking lots? those are renderings of flatbush and atlantic, just with an unrealistically small number of cars.
i like it. i agree it’s not contextual, but that doesn’t really bother me.
I never said it was contextual, Rob.
I think a contextual arena would look asinine. It should be something bold, just like the original Gehry design.
Do you just like to shit on things for the sake of shitting on them or do you EVER think before you write something?