BREAKING: New Atlantic Yards Arena Design Revealed
Wednesday, September 9, 2009, by Joey
After getting taken to the woodshed for booting Frank Gehry off his controversial Atlantic Yards project and replacing Gehry's Barclays Center arena design with a cut-rate airplane hangar, developer Bruce Ratner told everybody to just wait one doggone minute before they judged the future home (maybe?) of the New Jersey Brooklyn Nets. Word leaked last week that Ratner had added Manhattan avant-gardists SHoP to the design team, and now the fruits of that collaboration with Midwest architecture firm Ellerbe Becket have been unveiled. So, uh, what the hell are we looking at for the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic?
The rest plus renderings:
http://curbed.com/archives/2009/09/09/breaking_new_atlantic_yards_arena_design_revealed.php