A new rendering released by SHoP Architects of the Barclays green roof
While it was part of the original plan, proposed over ten years ago now, a green roof has not yet sprouted atop Barclays Center. The idea will become a reality soon, however—the Wall Street Journal reports that the arena's dome will be topped off with a 130,000-square-foot green roof featuring "small plants and a soil-like cover."
This is apparently in an effort to make some of the 6,400 apartments going up—part of the Atlantic Yards development phase that has just begun—more marketable, as 3 of the 15 towers housing those apartments surround the arena. Currently they'd be looking down on a white roof with the Barclays Center insignia on it.
While the original plan was for a rootfop oasis for the pubic to enjoy, this new plan is a closed-off one, purely for decorative purposes. That, and it could muffle event noises that would otherwise escape the arena. While Forest City Ratner denies noise pollution is a factor, it has been an issue they've been dealing with.
Whatever happened to the green subway roof outside of Barclays?
