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New design at Atlantic Yards - Page 2 — Brooklynian

New design at Atlantic Yards

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  • boogieknight
    boogieknight
    Looks like a shitty, cheap version of the various Armories in the city.

    Good job!
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    [[Mod note: merged the two Gehry/Ratner/Atlantic Yards discussions for ease of browsing]]
  • danny hellman
    danny hellman
    On the subject of Gehry, am I the only one who finds Gehry's IAC building to be a tacky piece of shit?

    image
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    You know, I really didn't like it at first (the IAC bldg) but have come around. It's quite beautiful at night. I'm not wild about the stripey glass. The biggest failure, and the one that negates any positives, is the way the bldg meets the street: it's a totally hostile, unforgiving environment. Gehry really kinds of sucks.
  • meredithb
    meredithb
    veets wrote: A 20,000 seat arena is still a lot of humans invading the area for an event. The traffic would be pretty horrific.
    I'd say there were that many at the David Byrne show Monday night. Sure there was traffic but the cops dealt with it well.
  • 8thandprez
    8thandprez
    The solution is to not provide much parking. The arena would sit on top of one of the city's largest transit hubs... if people can't take public transit, then they shouldn't be visiting this arena.

    Of course, I will never support the current design of the arena. I hate Ratner.
  • danny hellman
    danny hellman
    8thandPrez wrote: You know, I really didn't like it at first (the IAC bldg) but have come around. It's quite beautiful at night. I'm not wild about the stripey glass. The biggest failure, and the one that negates any positives, is the way the bldg meets the street: it's a totally hostile, unforgiving environment. Gehry really kinds of sucks.
    I only see the stripey glass in daylight, when it looks as cheesy as Hell.
  • ocelot
    ocelot
    The saddest thing of all is that this project will actually get built. All the corrupt supporters who stand to profit from it will profit. And years from now, people will look back and ask what on earth were we thinking by building this monstrosity.
  • bill c
    bill c
    can't they just move the nets to the former TWA terminal at JFK? That way, they have an arena designed by a world famous architect but don't have to build conseco field at the intersection of atlantic and flatbush and create bigger traffic nightmares there.

    put the nets in the terminal, not the hanger.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090702/FREE/907029995

    maybe it will get less ugly.
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