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May 12, 2006
Here she comes, Miss Brooklyn
Metro NY
By Amy Zimmer
Some interesting bits from the Metro NY article with running commentary:
Developer Bruce Ratner mailed several hundred thousand glossy brochures to Brooklynites recently in anticipation of a public meeting next month about his arena project. That meeting will kick off an approval process to bring the Nets to Brooklyn in 2009.
The public has not been informed of any public meeting next month. Reporter Amy Zimmer may be referring to the anticipation of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
Architect Frank Gehry, who called the design process a “monumental effort” in terms of the amount of models he has created for the project, is still in the process of “refining” the buildings. But throughout the process, the L.A.-based architect said he had been carefully studying the borough.
If you have the sense that the project looks better from above than at ground level, it's because Gehry's design process is very sculptural, using models to test and refine ideas. Bruce Ratner pays millions of dollars for these models, and the tab is rising.
According to Jim Stuckey, Forest City Ratner’s president of the Atlantic Yards Development Corporation, the buildings “have been brought down considerably in size” in a process that was “strategic and sculptural.”
A five-percent reduction from the previous plan is still an overall increase in size from the original scheme unveiled in September 2003. It would also hardly represent being "brought down considerably in size."
Posted by lumi at May 12, 2006 7:42 AM