New Atlantic Yards Renderings Show Yet Another New Nets Arena

After dropping architect Frank Gehry from his embattled Atlantic Yards project, developer Bruce Ratner replaced him with arena designer company Ellerbe Becket, whose revised brick shit-house renderings for a proposed Nets Arena were met with derision. So last week it was revealed that Ratner was doing damage control by bringing in hot New York architecture firm SHoP, and now this morning we have take three on the arena, which is still radically different from Gehry's signature crumpled paper design, but less banal than the last misfire.

Still, to opponents like Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, these new renderings are just lipstick on a boondoggle. They've also been released after the public comment period closed, and omit details on the rest of the 22-acre Atlantic Yards site, which once-upon-a-time was to include 16 towers, 6,430 housing units, and a 511 foot tall structure called Miss Brooklyn (remember her?). Though there do seem to be some ghostly buildings hovering in the background, proving that Atlantic Yards phantoms are hardly done haunting Brooklyn.

Nevertheless, the Empire State Development Corporation declined to conduct a full public review of the dramatically changed plans, and Ratner's expected to get final state approval next week. But hurdles, as ever, remain—the state's highest court has agreed to hear the eminent domain lawsuit brought by opponents who say the ESDC is trying to seize private property to benefit Forest City Ratner, not the public.

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By John Del Signore in News on September 9, 2009 12:00 PM

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NannyState

It's a George Foreman grill designed by Alvar Aalto. If the Nets leave, they can always turn it into an IKEA.

bklynbagel

sorry i gotta disagree with you guys, the first photo looks like a flux capacitor ;)

ides_of_march

Now with his talent for lying and deception, Madoff would probably be some sort of "czar" right now if he had gone into politics instead of robbing people on his own.

Kevin Walsh

A stadium will not work in this location. Robert Moses knew that and he liked to build everywhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbets_Field

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mns

hey i have an idea! let's ensure that crowds of drunk people mill around the corners of atlantic and flatbush and atlantic and 6th avenue/fort greene place!

effing idiots.

nomnomnom

I think this is actually the nicest design of the three.

longacre

I agree, even though it looks like a bottle opener/toilet seat/George Foreman grill.

Think2wice

Another arena in the middle of a field. No street-wall, no surrounding high rises, no integration with the neighborhood fabric. Let this project die and send the Nets to Newark.

BklynsFinest

ugh. just saw that SHoP Architects are responsible for this, (on the corner of Mulberry and Houston, across from the Puck Building.)

http://www.shoparc.com/#/projects/featured/290mulberry

yeesh.

BklynsFinest

The project needs to be scaled into something workable, and the arena can be anywhere along miles of underutilized brooklyn waterfront, or even, if they really want to improve a blighted neighborhood as they calm, the whole project can move about 8 blocks west to where atlantic has almost nothing but auto body shops and vacant lots. there's even an LIRR station that can be used.

like here: http://tinyurl.com/m7f326

or

here: http://tinyurl.com/krclx7

but equally insane are these renderings. the second image shows a crowd of kids about to wander gleefully into Atlantic Avenue, a six lane stretch of people slicer!

Once again, why is it wrong to stop this madness as it currently stands?

pudeljung

yep, a George Foreman grill... surrounded by a racecourse of high-speed thru traffic.

CitrineNYC

Hmmm, in the first photo it looks like a George Foreman grill. Maybe they'll be selling paninis at the games?

NannyState

Except here, the grease flows in.

Spirit of 76

Actually, the moment I saw it, I thought about the helmet Princess Leia and the other rebel ground troops wore on the forest moon of Endor in Return of the Jedi. [geek mode off]