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May 22, 2006
It's The Scale, Stupid
A MUST-READ FOR THE PRESS AND PROJECT PROPONENTS AND CRITICS ALIKE.
Brooklyn Views
Here's the one view of the project Frank Gehry's photo renderings didn't offer.
Brooklyn Views sticks it to the Atlantic Yards plan in his analysis of recent comments by designers Frank Gehry and Laurie Olin and goes as far as making concrete suggestions for downsizing to "encourage the design team to provide quality design, rather than defend an indefensible program."
Brooklyn Views makes a couple important points about:
making the world a better place,
How does ignoring any guidelines provided by existing zoning, providing no alternative energy ideas, no concept of security, privatizing public streets and calling them the project’s “open space”, and proposing a development that totally circumvents the city’s process for public review make the world better?
density over a transit hub,
This project (now 8.66 million sf) would be like locating the former World Trade Center towers (only 7.6 million sf combined) plus Madison Square Garden, somewhere near the W.4th Street Transit Hub because of all the trains there.
and infrastructure costs.
Many of the infrastructure costs identified by FCRC are merely a result of the proposed scale of the project, not the other way around.... Don’t provide venue parking and you won’t have to excavate for it. Don’t close the streets and you won’t have to relocate sewers and utilities.
Posted by lumi at May 22, 2006 7:23 AM