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March 9, 2010
More Inside Baseketball
Daily Transom [NY Observer.com], Inside the Barclays Center
Now that Atlantic Yards is all but cleared for construction, Forest City Ratner is showing off what the interior will look like.
The new renderings are almost as space-age as the recent exterior shots, with stage lights beaming around in all directions. Aside from that, it mostly just looks like an arena, though the Post has a run-down of its bells and whistles. Notably, there's a feature designed to increase home-court advantage by aiming reflective materials back at the court, thus amplifying crowd noise. Which might be a good idea if the team weren't 7-56 and probably prefers not to hear what their fans are screaming.
Metro NY, Nets arena reveals its ‘intimate’ inside face
With the groundbreaking for Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards development scheduled this week, the Nets released new interior images of the 675,000-square-foot Barclays Center to rise at the corner of Brooklyn’s Atlantic and Flatbush avenues. The $1 billion arena, slated to open in 2012, will create “intimate seating” to keep 18,000 basketball fans close to the action, officials said.
Famous architect Frank Gehry was ditched last year for the less expensive designs of Ellerbe Becket and SHoP Architects.
BOCOCALand, Barcley’s [sic] Center Interior Revealed
Expect plenty of restaurants and a whopping six clubs inside the arena which will also play host to concerts. I know there’s been plenty of controversy around this behemoth development project, but I am not well versed enough to take a particular stand on it one way or the other. Please feel free to comment and let us know your thoughts.
NoLandGrab: We know that most people don't waste spend as much time on Atlantic Yards as we do, and we know that BOCOCALand is a relatively new blog, but is anyone in Brooklyn at this point not versed enough to take a particular stand when it comes to Bruce Ratner's eminent domain-abusing, subsidy-gobbling megaproject?
Posted by eric at March 9, 2010 5:05 PM