New Design for Atlantic Yards

After the initial replacement plan for the scrapped Frank Gehry arena in Brooklyn was panned, Bruce Ratner and Ellerbe Becket return with a revised design. Some of Gehry’s feel returns, but as Ouroussoff notes the results are still compromised. Brooklyn will still be without a civic monument of a venue, even with the slight improvement to the Atlantic Yards project. Read the full review in today’s NYT.

A second look at the new design after the jump.