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With the announcement that New York is still in the running to host the 2012 Olympics, more details about the proposed Jets Stadium on the West Side were revealed. The new stadium will "feature wind turbines and solar collector tubes to generate much of its own electricity and hot water," situated between 11th and 12th Avenues, between 30th and 33rd Streets. Architect William Pedersen, of Kohn Pedersen Fox, said of the stadium's grid design, which is different from the usual circular or oval stadium design, "It should feel as if it's very much connected into this particular place, and as opposed to a stadium simply looking as if it could be anywhere, like a UFO landing from space."
Gothamist gets what Pederson is saying, but U.F.O.'s aren't bad: Think about the Guggenheim, both in NY and Bilbao. Another urban building that looks like nothing else around it might seems amazing: The new Seattle Public Library, which Rem Koolhaas and OMA designed. If you're in Seattle after the opening (May 23), architectural tours start on June 5. Check out Herbert Muschamp's review of the building that breaks greg.org's streak of hating Muschamp, for crying out loud.
Gothamist on the billion dollar stadium.
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Sorry to be nitpicky, but it's Pedersen, not Pederson.
My favorite parts of the photo of the West Side Stadium, are the little bitty streets that lead to it. How quaint.
Hopefully it will fall into the Hudson river and we shall never see it again. (Or The Jets)
Yeah, that solar power's gonna be really useful during football season. Still, the windmills aren't a bad idea - there used to be several on both sides of the Hudson, back in the (colonial) day, and they worked very well. I think the last one standing was the Ege family's - somewhere around where the Colgate Clock now sits in Jersey City.
I'm sure all of the suburbanites on their way to the game in their H2s and Escalades will appreciate the energy saving measures of this stadium as they sit in clogged traffic, burning fumes, while looking for a parking space. And I'm sure the rest of us will appreciate those energy saving measures while we are stuck on a bus, in clogged traffic, on the east side because Doctoroff needed the money for the Second Avenue Subway to extend the already overcrowded 7 line to his stadium.
Manhattan doesn't need this beast. Put it in East Rutherford or Queens, where there are highways and parking lots to handle it.
Let's see...I live on SI and am a longtime NYJ season ticket holder, so I guess I would be one of those dreaded "suburbanites" travelling to the game in my SUV. Except that I drive a Honda. Sorry that your gross generalization didn't pan out.
Better face facts - the Jets may not know what they are doing with respect to the hiring of coaching staff, but finally did something right in hiring Jay Cross to head up the stadium project. This deal has been designed so that there is little chance for NYC interests to derail it - a stroke of commercial planning genius (or evil genius, depending on your view).
BTW, if you don't get your precious Second Avenue subway, you can blame Shelly Silver for his refusal to allow the South Ferry project to proceed, based on a spurious claim that it would displace the "WTC globe" memorial from Battery Park. Hey, if those of us using downtown transit don't get our long-overdue capital project, you Upper Eastsiders aren't getting yours either. That's politics.
Personally, I'd be happy to see some of my taxes spent on something I might actually use. SI residents pay plenty of NYC taxes but seem to get precious little in return. At least the rest of NYC isn't dumping its trash here anymore (thank Rudy).
Surprising - another development project people don't like. Rack that up with the Olympics, the Freedom Tower, the Nets arena, IKEA, Lowe's and the far West Side housing developments. In other news - Robert Moses was the devil, politicians are evil and there is a lot of traffic in New York City.
Development is gonna happen folks, get on board!
bitch, bitch, bitch.
its an artform with new yorkers, it really is.
Lots of photos of the amazing Seattle Public Library.