Closing Bell: Gehry's Arena Turns Blue
Atlantic Yards towers B1 (formerly Miss Brooklyn) and B2 weren’t the only ones to get makeovers in yesterday’s Daily News piece. The arena has been altered as well, and now it’s blue! Per a press release from developer Forest City Ratner’s people: “The Barclays Center, the future home of the NBA Nets franchise, has also…
Atlantic Yards towers B1 (formerly Miss Brooklyn) and B2 weren’t the only ones to get makeovers in yesterday’s Daily News piece. The arena has been altered as well, and now it’s blue! Per a press release from developer Forest City Ratner’s people: “The Barclays Center, the future home of the NBA Nets franchise, has also received an updated design. Frank Gehry’s swooping blue metallic exterior surrounds the Center and is in keeping with his world-renown distinctive style. The Center is designed to achieve LEED certification with a goal of LEED silver and will incorporate some of the most state-of-the art interior and exterior amenities.” Spokesman Loren Riegelhaupt said not to worry, the scoreboard will still be viewable from the street. We’ve posted some of those other world-renowned buildings. Notice that Brooklyn’s metal is the least bend-y.
Miss Brooklyn Gets New Look and Name [NY Daily News]
Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Lots? [Brownstoner]
Do the NIMBY’s really prefer that the area stay the way it is now?
yea that is why its called develop don’t destroy
PROPOSED FOR CONEY ISLAND, BAY RIDGE, OR EAST NEW YORK, GOLDSTEIN AND HIS BAND OF MERRY MEN (AND WOMEN) WOULDN’T GIVE A RATS ASS
Right but you can bet your capital case lettered writing that if they tried to take the homes of people living in bay ridge, it would never happen. As for the coney island bit, you are just mis informed ( not surprisingly, you are just a IMBYFP) The coney island would be in OPEN land. Ie. not in the middle of an area.
If your reason for having this hole near a subway, is so you can get DRUNK and not drive…then look for sympathy and support from someone who gives two rats about your drunkeness!!
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LOOK, HERE’S THE POINT. PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST THIS PROJECT ARE STRICTLY NIMBY’S, MEANING “NOT IN MY BACK YARD”.
You are strictly a fuck wad.
what the heck is strickly nimby…you know nothing of anyone fighting this project. If this were in Coney Island you wouldn’t give a rats ass either.
i love PHAT people.
2 idiotic worlds meet, frank gehry and sports!
i love fat people.
oh, 7:53–how typical of a “model” it is to be a literalist nitwit. thank the good lord above you had your “looks,” because there certainly wouldn’t have been much call for your brainpower. as for your homes sitting unused, well you had to fly to and fro to get to each one of them. not to mention all your “shoots” at various far flung locales.
you ARE indeed fat, model, as in overindulged. your six pack abs, anorexic build or whatever it is that made you your fortune can’t change that nor ever will.
Relax folks, it’s never gonna happen. The Nets will stay in Jersey, and Ratner will soak the taxpayers for a few more millions before scuttling off to the next grandiose failure.
Not everyone who likes Atlantic Yards works for Ratner. If you can’t even see that some people honestly think the project is good for Brooklyn for whatever reason, be it jobs, architecture, basketball, or to spur development, then your opinion means nothing because you’re so blinded by your hate of the project that you can’t see things rationally. I live in Brooklyn, near the project, am white, educated, even liberal, extremely well read on it pro, con, and neautral. Weighing everything I want the project. But at least I understand why people don’t. I have no respect for the opinion of people who think that everyone who disagrees with them is corrupt. Maybe ACORN is getting something out of this, but you’re not the one who sits in an office every day seeing people from your community come in looking for jobs so they can better themselves and their family. Try and see things from other peoples’ eyes, don’t be ignorant of the rest of the world beyond your brownstone, and pay some respect. Whatever objections you have left after those filters are valid.
Anyone else thinking Opera House in Australia?