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June 10, 2009
Checkin’ in with…Robert Scarano, Brooklyn’s ‘bad boy’ architect
The Brooklyn Paper
by Mike McLaughlin
Brooklyn's least-beloved architect weighs in on the Brooklyn architect who never was.
MM: ...So what do you think of Frank Gehry’s dismissal from Atlantic Yards and the Kansas City firm Ellerbe Becket, the architect replacing him?
RS: Why can’t we get a guy from New York to do it? Gehry’s designs, as magnificent as they are, are not for the faint of heart. They’re only for those with an unlimited budget. When they’re wildly overpriced to begin with, the real drama comes later when there are 80 percent cost escalations. [Forest City Ratner] brought him in to be the main star guy and he had a shelf life, as did Daniel Liebeskind at the World Trade Center. When that shelf life was up, they let him go.
Click through for Mr. Scarano's appraisal of the Conseco Fieldhouse, um, new Barclays Center, and his fear of Fourth Avenue redux.
Posted by eric at June 10, 2009 1:39 PM