Atlantic Yards' Gehry Dumping Leads to Kansas City vs. New York Brawl

Following the big-yet-not surprising story that Frank Gehry is now officially off the Atlantic Yards/New Jersey Nets stadium project, we have two newspapers with very differing pieces about the matter. First up, the New York Times‘ architecture critic, Nicolai Ouroussoff is livid about the decision to dump Gehry, saying that Ellerbe Becket‘s new design for the stadium is awful and that the recent move to their firm makes the whole city look bad:

…what’s most offensive about the design is the message it sends to New Yorkers.

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