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Barclays Center arena will change Brooklyn forever
'This is the first truly 21st-century building in New York City': Bruce Ratner





By Jason Sheftell
March 30, 2012


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Even in midconstruction, there are moments touring the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights when you can’t help but feel extreme joy. It’s like walking the Empire State Building, I imagine, when the thing was all girders and steel. You just know this building will change New York City and the borough of Brooklyn forever. No longer will Brooklyn play second fiddle to Manhattan, or any other city such as Chicago or Miami.

It’s not just that pro sports are back in the borough for the first time since 1957; it’s the arena’s shape, design, intent, location, housing, public space and stubborn persistence it took to get this here. There are 11 subway lines and the Long Island Rail Road flowing underneath. Over 6,400 housing units will back the arena, with 2,200 units affordable. How can anyone argue with that? I guarantee the first time anyone sets foot near or inside this building, opening on Sept. 28 with a Jay-Z concert, they will get goosebumps.



“I don’t think people who know about this visual oculus can even grasp how advanced it will be,” says Chris Sharples, a partner at SHoP. “The interesting challenge was making this big hunk of architecture mesh with brownstone Brooklyn, the mall across the street and downtown. The big move was this gesture of stretching the arena out with the cantilever. When you come right off the subway entrance, you’ll look up into the sky through this circle.”

“It’s going to be an urban technological masterpiece, but it’s also going to be really cool to walk around this place,” says Gregg Pasquarelli, a partner at SHoP. “It’s about the user experience. It’s going to be this black box inside. Like a theater. The verticality of the seats as they rise means everyone is going to be right on top of the court. When the Nets get good, the place is going to hop.”





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