Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved fast-tracking the billion-dollar arena complex the Clippers want to build in Inglewood, as plans for the project continue to advance. [...]
The Madison Square Garden Co., which owns the Forum less than two miles away, called the arena plan “deeply flawed” and pledged to continue its fight against the project.
— Los Angeles Times
Designs for the proposed $1.2 billion basketball arena by AECOM were first unveiled in July last year.
"The Clippers, owned by billionaire Steve Ballmer, will install 330 electric vehicle chargers at the arena, fund 1,000 residential chargers in the surrounding area, purchase two electric buses and 10 electric vehicles for Inglewood’s municipal fleet, and plant 1,000 trees as part of its agreement with CARB," Daily Breeze reports. "The arena is expected to meet a Gold standard under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification program."
If approved and completed, the 18,000-seat venue would become the new Inglewood home of the Los Angeles Clippers, just in time for the 2024-25 NBA season and coinciding with the end of the team's lease with its current home, the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles.
The planned arena is located near the currently under-construction Los Angeles Rams football stadium designed by HKS Architects.
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i'm looking forward to seeing the Clippers in the big koi fishhead!
That eye-level view does make it look a little Gilligan's Island-ish...
Sports arenas are the modern day church. Though I feel a bit up on the church after seeing the Two Popes.
Anyway, I didn't realize the Forum was owned by Madison Square Co. (James Dolan). Hilarious.
Correction, sports arenas are the modern day church of the working class. Museums are the church of the moneyed/educated elites. And as usual the design is about 10 years behind Europe. Which is sad because America invented modernism.
america invented modernism? *cough* bauhaus *cough*
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