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]
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jun2007/id20070619_279669.htm?chan=search
I think developing the Atlantic yards is a great idea—it needs it.
From what I can see, it looks like it will be developed in a really excellent way. Compared to the way that nondescript and tasteless mall was erected over the LIRR station at Flatbush and Atlantic, this Gehry project looks like something to be excited about. Or better yet, compare this Gehry project to Penn Station.
It’s like Tom Friedman wrote the other day in his column: comparing Penn Station to the train terminal in Berlin, you’d never guess who won world war II.
The fact is that Brooklyn will have a great construction over it’s train yards and the arena in Brooklyn will be far superior to Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.
I really can’t understand the opposition to the project. I think it must be just a few, very loud people shouting over a crowd that’s watching, quietly, with excitement.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2007/11/mit_is_suing_fr.html
I have homes in LA (Silverlake), NYC (Park Slope) and Costa Rica, 4:43.
I’ll be back in LA soon enough.
Btw, GREAT comeback!!!
Super impressive.
4:32
Take your ass back to LA!
“I wish someone woudl just kill this and let it develop naturally, without a stadium.”
Ya, why can’t they just let the weeds grow and trains rust naturally?
“I wish someone woudl just kill this and let it develop naturally,”
Yes, because naturally has worked OH SO WELL for parts of Bed Stuy, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights and South Slope.
And if by natural, you mean making Mr. Fedders a very rich man, then I say bring on the unnatural!!!
I wonder how many of my tax dollars went to Gehry to produce this, admittedly nice, rendering.
4:32:
You calling it a stadium, when it fact it is an arena (two VERY different things) shows that you are unable to even discuss this project in a rational and factual way.
You are the reason this project is going through. Your anti-people need to stop with the unorganized, overzealous and downright inaccurate data.
And no, I don’t work for Ratner.
I happen to like the project. And having worked IN a Gehry building (see Disney Hall) I know how his buildings (even among many other buildings in downtown LA) has become the star of the city.
So that’s two falsehoods you’ve spread just in one comment already.
I welcome it with open arms.