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February 16, 2012
Brooklyn Basketball Arena Nears Final Buzzer
Engineering News Record
A major design goal was to integrate the facility into the local bustle. It includes exterior views into the seating bowl, says Stephen Duethman, Midwest region managing principal for lead architect AECOM. "The whole dynamic of the interior is based on the industrial and nightlife theme, the feeling of the streets of Brooklyn," he adds.
That transparency was a feature of the original design, though little else of that eclectic vision remains other than Gehry's master plan for the Atlantic Yards. "The building had to be transparent and activate the street—not just a big blank wall," Sanna says.
NoLandGrab: That view from the street into the arena is the only thing that's been transparent about the Atlantic Yards project. Case in point — the article's faulty parroting of this classic Forest City fallacy: "Opponents filed 37 lawsuits, none of which the developer has lost."
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Posted by eric at February 16, 2012 11:33 AM