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August 16, 2008
Gehry: seeking the "small percentage of space" to make a difference
Atlantic Yards Report
Architect Frank Gehry is quoted from the documentary Sketches of Frank Gehry. He mentions how the "small percentage of space" in a project defines the good that can come from a commercial enterprise:
You won’t remember this, but years ago, when we first met, you talked to me about filmmaking. I was struggling with the world I was confronted with, which was a commercial world, they weren’t interested in what I was doing. And I talked to you about it one night, and you said you faced the same commercial world and that you made peace with it by finding this small percentage of space in that commercial world where you could make a difference.
So what can one say about what good might come from the proposed Nets arena when the green roof and rooftop park in the original plans have been deleted?
Posted by steve at August 16, 2008 9:42 AM