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]
12:42,
You clearly have never taken the subway to a baseball game within the five boroughs. The trains are PACKED before games with locals and tourists. The demand at Shea is so high that the platform has been widened to accommodate the fans. Last time I attended a game, it took 15 minutes to board a train and extra personnel were required to help guide people into the station.
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I always take the train to shea… and to Coney Island.
Go Brooklyn Nets!
sports fans dont use public transportation. right nobody takes the 4 to yankee games the 7 to shea of uses the LIRR at MSG although it sits above the train station. i know only patrons of the arts take public transportation. asshat!
If you think it is low rise, why do the mockups look so god awful, with huge Ratner buildings overwhelming the much smaller buildings that surround it. The large apts in Brooklyn height proper are more contextual and AY looks like it landed from outer space. I think there is one thing we can all agree is that those proposed building are monstrosities.
Markowitz, you only get one post!
Fact is, this project would make more (some?) sense in ENY, Coney or elsewhere in Brooklyn. Downtown Brooklyn CANNOT handle more traffic. What we need is some actual urban PLANNING, fix the street mess and make the transit hub more user-friendly. We DON’T need a huge facility that will bring more cars from LI and other parts of Brooklyn (no Marty sports fans don’t use public transport).
Why not turn the whole thing into a parking lot? cheaper, and could generate revenue for the city.
9:14
It’s not a predominantly low rise area. It is an area with the tallest building in Brooklyn and several of the tallest residential buildings in the borough.
This has been said countless times. You combine this fact with the presence of the Atlantic-Pacific subway station and you have the strongest argument humanly possible for high density residential development. You have the successful mix of townhouses and high density buildings in Brooklyn Heights, the Upper West Side, and Greenwich Village to prove that such uses can and do coexist peacefully.
Your perception of reality is not supported by facts.
Because the area has seen little development, besides public housing, since the Great Depression doesn’t mean that trend will continue forever. Be happy that Brooklyn has finally recovered from that difficult era. Also recognize that NIMBYism does nothing but engender conflict as avarice will consume those who increasingly cannot afford to live in your neighborhood due to rising demand for housing and stagnant supply.
If this is the same blue metal as Gehry used in one of his worst buildings – Seattle’s Experience Music Project – then it’s going to be a very ugly building.
I’ve lived in the neighborhood for 8 years and recently bought in Clinton Hill. I may very well be wrong, but I think the bulk of the opposition isn’t for the arena necessarily, but for the 16 or so high rise buildings that were to be erected in a pre-dominantly low-rise area. As far as an arena’s effect on the surrounding neighborhood, I can only point to the revitalization of the area around the Wizards arena in downtown DC as a major success story. I lived in DC before and after the arena was built, and to call it a night-and-day difference is an understatement. I am opposed to the AY project as originally proposed as much as anyone, but to suggest that the area would not benefit from some sort of development is a bit ridiculous.
And besides, it will all be worthless once AY is built…