Closing Bell: DDDB's Letter to SHoP
After Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner released the new design renderings for the Barclays Center arena, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn took the opportunity to write an open letter to the arena’s co-architects, SHoP. The gist of the letter is that SHoP, by accepting the Barclays Center commission, is also attaching the firm’s reputation to…
After Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner released the new design renderings for the Barclays Center arena, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn took the opportunity to write an open letter to the arena’s co-architects, SHoP. The gist of the letter is that SHoP, by accepting the Barclays Center commission, is also attaching the firm’s reputation to the Atlantic Yards and condoning the actions of Forest City Ratner: “We think that as responsible professionals, you must be aware that your designs are being used in an attempt to mask the political, planning, economic and aesthetic failures of Forest City Ratner’s corrupt Atlantic Yards development proposal … On these grounds, we urge you to reconsider your involvement. And we will be pleased to meet with you and discuss these issues.”
An Open Letter to SHoP Architects Regarding Atlantic Yards [DDDB]
Why don’t we just agree. They are blow hards!
What a really nasty group of people. DDDB that is. Funny, they didn’t send that letter to the last architect for his hideous rendering. Now that this one is meeting positive reviews (as architecture) they are stooping to this. Sad little people.
lord the DDDB are heinous blow hards
But the problem here is that they won’t be building any buildings or earning any money for a long, long time — look how long Ratner kept Frank Gehry hanging on and eventually tossed him aside as well. I wouldn’t believe a thing this guy promises.
lord the DDDB are heinous blow hards
lord the DDDB are heinous blow hards
Professionals are free from the burden of ethics? Not in most professional fields.
A chance to step away and meet with the DDDB
or
A chance to do what architecture firms and professionals do – build buildings and earn money.
What would you pick?
Precisely the problem.
Justin Davidson says the same thing as we do, just more colorfully and succinctly.
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/59004/