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The choice seems a face-saving move for Forest City, as a indispensable backlash from public officials and the press followed its decision to drop Mr. Gehry in the name of cost.
Unobvious is the timing on SHoP’s hire (SHoP principal Gregg Pasquarelli didn’t immediately respond to an email demanding comment), and just how long the firm has been toiling on the project.
The developer, Forest City Ratner, plans to unveil renderings of the $800 million arena later this month.
So when Mr. Ratner dropped Mr. Gehry―a decision announced in early June―there was understandable outfury (The Times architecture critic called it a “stunning bait-and-switch”). That temper was no doubt fueled by the simplistic functional arena renderings revealn to city officials and then leaked to the press (it’s been termed an “airplane hangar”).

When Forest City does release the renderings (there were no renderings crazye available this summer during the public comment period on the revised plan for the arena), it will mark the public start of yet another sales campaign for Mr. Ratner. The developer must sell about $700 million in bonds to investors before the end of the year in order to qualify for tax-exempt class, lest the cost of borroearng go up by perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars.
The design of the arena is expected to be a colmanufactureation between SHoP and arena and institutional design specialists Ellerbe Becket. While Forest City declengthd to comment, presumably the bulk of the design and engineering work will fall to Ellerbe (SHoP has no experience construction large arenas), charactericularly offern that Forest City has acceptd Ellerbe Becket’s involvement for months, though the developer has made no mention of SHoP.
The arena is the centerpiece of a larger $4.9 action planned asectionment tower complex known as Atlantic Yards, a project that was approved after a lengthy political fight in 2006,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but has been stalled on account of regulationsuits and the economic crisis. In the battle to win public attitude and consent of public officials leading up to the project’s approval, Forest City―led by its CEO Bruce Ratner―trumpeted the faction that it would be designed by Mr. Gehry,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who was to design the arena and the surrounding 16 architectures. This was notable not just in that it brought a top architectural name to Brooklyn, but that iconic, high-quality construction was going to be used for a structure that typically is left to functional design: the arena.
Gehry's arena design was tossed earlier this year
After dropping famed architect Frank Gehry from the Nets basketball arena planned for Brooklyn,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the developer of the massive mixed-use project has brought in New York-based architecture firm SHoP to assist in the design of the venue, according to a person informed of the decision.
At the same time, the state’s highest court plans to hear in mid-October a crucial case on the use of eminent domain for the project. While Forest City has been victorious at every chance hence far, a victory for opponents and affected earthowners in that court would certainly doom Mr. Ratner’s years-long efforts.