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April 25, 2006
Los Angeles With a Downtown? Gehry's Vision
NY Times
By Robin Pogrebin
Frank Gehry is working on his urban design chops in Los Angeles on a "$1.8 billion development plan by the Related Companies that will remake Grand Avenue as a pedestrian-based gathering point":
He said his goal was "to develop the beginning of a community that has the body language of a community and has the scale of a community."
The only problem for Brooklynites is that he still thinks Atlantic Yards is in Downtown Brooklyn:
In complexity, he said, the multiuse project resembles the proposed Atlantic Yards development he is designing for downtown Brooklyn, which includes a corridor of high-rise towers and a new arena for the Nets basketball team.
NoLandGrab: Just because Gehry doesn't know where Atlantic Yards is doesn't mean that the Times doesn't. Clearly Bruce Ratner is winning the PR battle when the paper of record repeatedly misplaces Atlantic Yards and locates the project where Ratner and Gehry want everyone to believe it is.
Posted by lumi at April 25, 2006 8:17 AM