Atlantic Yards Designs: A Look Back At The Six-Year Saga

First Posted: 11/10/09 05:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 03:00 PM ET

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The New York Observer:

On Wednesday, developer Bruce Ratner unveiled new designs for his planned Nets basketball arena in Brooklyn, an Ellerbe Becket and SHoP-designed complex notable for a set of wavy, dark orange metal bands that wrap around its exterior. (Though it's worth adding that missing is any design of the rest of the $4.9 billion project - which envisions 6,400 apartments and a commercial tower - as the previous designs by Frank Gehry were dropped in the name of cost.)

Now that Mr. Ratner has pledged construction will start by year's end, which depends on a successful financing of his arena and resolution of a pending eminent domain lawsuit, it seems worth a look back at some of the various renderings and plans over the years.

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On Wednesday, developer Bruce Ratner unveiled new designs for his planned Nets basketball arena in Brooklyn, an Ellerbe Becket and SHoP-designed complex notable for a set of wavy, dark orange metal ba...
On Wednesday, developer Bruce Ratner unveiled new designs for his planned Nets basketball arena in Brooklyn, an Ellerbe Becket and SHoP-designed complex notable for a set of wavy, dark orange metal ba...
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ominous
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08:55 AM on 09/14/2009
that building is fugly.
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kimi6
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01:01 PM on 09/11/2009
I live a couple minutes from there and I am NOT looking forward to this at all. This area of Brooklyn has been developing a more funky, ecclectic vibe and this is definitely going in the completely opposite direction. Not to mention the years of construction mayhem we are going to have to endure.
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bklynnupe
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10:43 AM on 09/11/2009
Atlantic Yards Sucks and it will ruin Brooklyn!
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