NEW YORK (AP) – The chief executive of the Nets has defended his team’s decision to jettison architect Frank Gehry’s design for a new arena in Brooklyn and replace it with a more conventional and less costly option.
The team announced last week that the Barclays Center in Brooklyn will be based on a design by Ellerbe Becket.
Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote Tuesday that the switch was “a shameful betrayal of the public trust, one that should enrage all those who care about this city.”
“Unfortunately the world we live in today is very different than what it was three or four years ago when we hired Frank,” Nets chief executive Brett Yormark said Wednesday.
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