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The proposed Barclay Center as seen from Atlantic Avenue, looking south.

© SHoP Architects, PC

An aerial view of the proposed center, with Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood behind it.

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Following the cold reception to the proposal by Ellerbe Becket, a Kansas City, Mo.–based firm known for unspectacular stadiums, Ratner retained the services of young New York firm Shop Architects to work with Ellerbe Becket to spruce up the stadium's design. The latest iteration of the Barclay Center, released yesterday, makes nods to Gehry's original design, with a more open and airy facade and a warmer exterior of perforated, rust-colored steel. Says Ratner, “The design is elegant and intimate and also a bold architectural statement that will nicely complement the surrounding buildings and neighborhoods."

But the plan still leaves open a lot of questions, like whether Ratner will ever build the residential and commercial spaces that were part of the Gehry-designed proposal that earned him city approval to build, how and when he'll be able to finance the project, and how the local activists who so strongly rallied against the original proposal, criticized as invasive to the residential neighborhoods it would abut, will react.

Read more at the New York Times.