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August 2, 2006
Atlantic Yards as Seen in a Heatwave: Made in the Shade
Proof that it's never too hot to irony out the details, Gowanus Lounge makes lemonade out of a lemon.
As a world class creator of shade, (again, see the nifty graphic above) Atlantic Yards may be the most forward thinking bit of top-down urban planning and megastructure architecture to come along in years, especially with global warming coming at us faster than you can say "rising sea levels wreck havoc on South Brooklyn" or "I hope that Killer Hurricane bearing down on us hangs a right at Bermuda."
Thirty years from now--assuming all that glass that Frank Gehry would use in his building doesn't create a tragic magnifying glass effect--a future generation of Brooklynites will hail the forward-thinking Man from Bilbao and the Patron of Thoughtful Architecture Known as Bruce Ratner because they made shade.
Mr. Ratner and Mr. Gehry, on this bloody hot day, we salute you for thinking about putting a signficant part of Brooklyn in shade!
Posted by lumi at August 2, 2006 9:48 AM