"Brooklyn is a world-class city, and it deserves a world-class team in a world-class arena designed by a world-class architect," he said.
Bruce C. Ratner wants to move the Nets to his downtown Brooklyn development, but the team would play at Continental Arena until a new arena, designed by Frank Gehry, is done.
If he gets his way, that's exactly where the developer Bruce Ratner will move the Nets, into a gleaming new arena designed by Frank Gehry.
There is the rigorously landscaped swimming pool complex designed by a young (now disbanded) practice called Paisajes Emergentes, and the extravagantly roofed sports arena designed by Mazzanti, again, and Felipe Mesa.
Excavation will lower the level of the pitch and provide, the club promise, "an outstanding view of the stadium from every seat" and "an arena designed to create an exciting atmosphere".
"The Enchanted Island" offers an ingenious solution to the Met's "Baroque problem": How can a yawning, 3,800-seat arena designed for Wagner and Verdi hospitably host grandly conceived but intimately scaled Baroque opera?
Nowadays, in fact, the competition here takes place at a 35,000-seat arena, designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer and called "Cowboy Park," with purses of up to $20,000 attracting competitors from as far away as the United States, Canada and Australia.
But the hard questions are just beginning to emerge about the feasibility and financial viability of Mr. Ratner's proposal to build a $485 million arena designed by Frank Gehry as the centerpiece of an enormous $2.5 billion residential and commercial development.
The essence of Soapbox Science is much the same as Speaker's Corner in London: to take a public area and turn it into an arena designed to bring science directly to passers-by.
The jewel in the crown of his flatpack vision is the handball arena – designed with a flexible kit of components that, it is hoped, will be used to build four local schools after the games.
