Sneak Peek at the Nets’ Brooklyn Home

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• Hursty Posted: Sep.10 at 9:36 am
  It looks like a fu*king spaceship.
  Cool design conceptually, but almost entirely unrealistic in raelity. I would imagine that design would easily exceed whatever budget they put in place.
  Still, if they manage to build it, it’d look amazing.

• Gerard Himself Posted: Sep.10 at 9:59 am
  I like it. Now let’s get this done!

• k.a. Posted: Sep.10 at 10:45 am
  I’m an architect and just based on the one pic, doesn’t look like its particularly expensive. There’s no elaborate expressive structure, the shape is funky but its still regular/uniform in section so its just typcal cladding and glazing. In fact since they loss gehry meant that his design prolly wasnt cost viable.

• NJ4Life Posted: Sep.10 at 11:09 am
  Hm. That doesn’t look like Newark at all. So this design can go in the trash with the others.

• Declan Posted: Sep.10 at 11:29 am
  I don’t like it.

• ben osborne Posted: Sep.10 at 12:14 pm
  Sigh…move to Newark!!!

• ChimmyChanga Posted: Sep.10 at 12:25 pm
  Just get LeBron and “Presto”, you’ve got a relevant franchise…

• Bryan Crawford Posted: Sep.10 at 12:35 pm
  It looks like a baseball cap… or better yet, Princess Leia’s hat she wore in the jungle in Return of the Jedi.

• Brad Long Posted: Sep.10 at 1:21 pm
  I’ll believe it when I see it.

• Moose Posted: Sep.10 at 3:52 pm
  Let’s see if they can do it. Looks nice, though.

• des Posted: Sep.10 at 6:12 pm
  That’s going to go at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic? GOOD LUCK.

• bigA2348 Posted: Sep.10 at 6:25 pm
  wow looks expensive, i guess the economies not that bad

• Anton Posted: Sep.10 at 7:19 pm
  Brooklyn Go Hard

• g Posted: Sep.10 at 8:38 pm
  wooo that look vicious hope it comes out like that gladly i live in brooklyn

• vic21 Posted: Sep.10 at 8:38 pm
  nice…

• chintao Posted: Sep.11 at 4:26 am
  @ k.a. Posted: Sep.10 at 10:45 am ==> You’re right. The Gehry design was not viable. The problem is that Ratner used that design to get approval for his project. Now that he’s low on funds, Brooklyn is getting a compromised design. Yeah, it’s better than the prior piece of garbage, but it is nowhere near the original proposal.

• chintao Posted: Sep.11 at 4:32 am
  @ k.a. ==> You are right. The Gehry design became unfeasible, budget-wise. The problem is that Ratner used that design to gain community and city approval. While this latest design is not nearly as bad as the generic structure that was proposed in June, it is still a significant compromise that leaves many feeling that they have been taken for a ride.

• chintao Posted: Sep.11 at 4:36 am
  If anyone is interested in following the developments on this arena, you can find some bakcground information here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/arts/design/09arena.html and, more recently, here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/arts/design/10yards.html?th&emc=th

• Dan Ilika Posted: Sep.11 at 9:57 am
  Didn’t you guys post this almost a year ago?

• chintao Posted: Sep.14 at 3:39 am
  ^ That should tell you something about the economy and about Ratner’s trifling ways.