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]
This will not be a tourist attraction.
Gehry buildings are like Chase banks now. They’re on practically every corner and they all look the same.
By the time this is built (if it gets built), there will already be 2 other Gehry buildings in Manhattan.
Also, this is not Disney Concert Hall and it’s not Bilbao. With these two buildings, there are cultural events, people go in and out of the museum in a steady stream throughout the day, and there is the opportunity for many different types of events to take place.
With an ARENA, you pretty much got 2 options: 1) there’s a HUGE event with 20,000 people, which sucks for the people who actually live in the area because of obscene congestion, tons of litter, etc, etc, or 2) it’s empty. empty isn’t good for anyone and an arena will sit empty for probably 90% of the year. it’ll be used 40 nights a year for maybe 3 hours at a time and then maybe another 50 days for concerts, etc.
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.
“You think you are going to be allowed to walk across the parking lot?- hahahahaha
Not gunna happen”
Why not? You made the claim. Please enlighten us.
No comment? I thought so…
Actually old Brooklyn looks like shit. An art project would be a nice break from all “classic” architecture.
You think you are going to be allowed to walk across the parking lot?- hahahahaha
Not gunna happen
looks like a nice art project. would look like shit in Brooklyn.
“City Ratner continue to demolish buildings in Phase II to construct a giant parking lot that separates our neighborhoods?â€
At least we could walk across a parking lot. Right now a giant hole separates our neighborhood.
Well done, 4;39, you get the prize for misdirection. From wiki:
“arena is sometimes used as a synonym for a very large venue such as Pasadena’s Rose Bowl, but such a facility is typically called a stadium. The use of one term over the other has mostly to do with the type of event”
In other words, little different. But that’s not the issue at all, is it? As Ratner brings out more and more of his unlikely renderings, one gets the feeling of desperation. And they get uglier and less human to boot.
Not even worth getting into the real issues of millions of $ of taxpayer subsidies, ignoring the due process, eminent domain, out-of-scaleness, lying to the community organizations that are in bed with him (ACORN) etc. etc.
“The new designs raise more quesÂtions than they answer,†said Brad Lander, executive director of the Pratt Center for Community DevelopÂment. “Will Forest City Ratner continue to demolish buildings in Phase II to construct a giant parking lot that separates our neighborhoods?â€
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”. THE NON PARTISAN REALITY IS THAT IF THIS THING EVER GETS BUILT, (i) IT WILL SUCK FOR THE PEOPLE IN PROSPECT HEIGHTS FOR THE 20 YEAR PERIOD OF THE BUILD-OUT (ii) THE REST OF BROOKLYN WILL ABSOLUTELY BE IN LOVE WITH THE BASKETBALL TEAM (WIN OR LOSE) AND (iii) AY WILL BECOME MAJOR TOURIST ATTRACTION…GET READY FOR A MILLION MORE OF THOSE ‘JUMP ON’
‘JUMP OFF’ TOUR BUSES.