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What The Brooklyn Nets' New Barclays Center Home Will Look Like Inside
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Garth Johnston
Published Jul 20, 2011
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Assuming there is basketball (and that Deron Williams doesn't just move to Turkey for good) the Nets should be playing in Brooklyn in September 2012. But first the Barclays Center, the much-debated arena over the Atlantic Yards that will be the team's home, needs to get wrapped up. Speaking of, hey! Renderings! The stadium itself is rising quickly, tickets are already on sale and today the arena has released the first renderings of the space's insides. Y'all ready for some bland interiors?
The stadium should handle 18,000 seats for basketball games (up to 19,000 for concerts) and will in theory include lots and lots of amenities by the time it opens on September 28, 2012. Think 100 luxury suites, four bars and lounges, three clubs and a restaurant. And while the just-released renderings of the $1 billion dollar building's interiors, by the firm SHoP Architects PC, aren't exactly riveting they are...something.
WONDER at the all white VIP entrance where Russian billionaires will be able to avoid the hoi polloi. MARVEL at the earth-toned main concourse which "includes a smooth terrazzo floor reflecting the lights of a night sky above with clear directional signage to seat and suite locations." STARE at the Beers of the World bar which will never in all its days look as empty as it does in SHoP's rendering and finally OGGLE the private suites that you will never be able to visit!
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