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]
I might not be as eco-friendly as you would like, 7:27, although your logic makes little sense since two of my homes are unused most of the year (vs being lived in full time by someone else) but I am certainly not fat.
I am a model, which is how I’ve been able to afford the life I have now.
time for antiAY herd to move on to the next stylish cause. isn’t the pro bird anti glass building movement gaining some steam?
“LOOK, HERE’S THE POINT. PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST THIS PROJECT ARE STRICTLY NIMBY’S, MEANING “NOT IN MY BACK YARD”. iF THIS PROJECT WERE 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 ABOUT “NO LAND GRAB” “TAX PAYER DOLLARS” AND “AFFORDABLE HOUSING”.
They actually have said the arena should go in Coney Island. So people have to drive to get there and drive home drunk. How many people take the train to cyclones games?
NOT TO RATNER STAFF:
DO NOT WRITE IN ALL CAPS WHEN TRYING TO SPIN PUBLIC OPINION ON BLOGS. IT IS CONSIDERED RUDE.
nice carbon footprint, 4:47. It’s fucktards like you with your multiple houses (and houseboys) that have this planet in the predicament it’s in–you fat greedy asshat.
Like a few posters above have mentioned…the area is literally a black hole right now. Do the NIMBY’s really prefer that the area stay the way it is now? Am I the only one who thinks that (as it currently stands) the area looks like a piece of shit? As 5:57 said, it’s really this or nothing. I am not very certain that this will get built, but I’m 100% CERTAIN that if AY does not get built the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic will be a hole in the ground for the rest of all of our lives…quite frankly, it just too hard to get ANYTHING built in New York.
“regardless of the architecture, arenas create a gaping black hole when placed in an urban setting. the area around MSG sucks because it’s an arena, NOT because it’s an ugly building.”
Tell that to the developers who have spent BILLIONS of dollars to buy property next to, on top of and directly across from MSG to build, what will be the last parcel of undeveloped land in Manhattan.
You are a loon. And completely out of touch.
Just because YOU don’t like the area around MSG does not make it a black hole. You might want to tell that to the millions upon millions of people who visit Macys every year, see the Thanksgiving Day Parade, go to work or shop in the extremely high rent area which is 34th Street.
Miracle on 34th Street…Ever heard of it?
It isn’t black hole on 34th Street last I checked.
“arenas create a gaping black hole when placed in an urban setting.”
Umm, the area is currently a giant black hole. Literally.
If not this plan then what? Do you think some magic hippy is going to fall from the sky and design and fund an urban utopia? I’m sorry. I know it sucks but it’s this or nothing. I for one vote for something rather than nothing.
“and an arena will sit empty for probably 90% of the year”
And there you have it. All the Nimby folks are crying, yet the truth finally comes out.
It won’t be the nightmare you think because it will be empty.