The 850,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue will be home to the professional basketball team the Brooklyn Nets. For the first time since the Dodgers left in 1957, Brooklyn will have a major league sports team to call its own. The Barclays Center will welcome some of the most exciting sports and entertainment events in the world: concerts, fine arts performances, circuses, college basketball games, ice shows, and music award shows are just some of the possibilities.

The Barclays Center will be a community centerpiece for the borough. FCRC has worked with local organizations to ensure the venue is an integral part of the community, where local college and high school athletes will have a new stage to showcase their skills. The Center will also host thousands of proud families and friends for college and high school graduations.

Frank Gehry is one of the world’s most respected and celebrated architects. His projects include: the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; the Richard B. Fischer Center at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; the Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT in Boston; and the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

While many other great architects sketch their concepts for a building on paper, Mr. Gehry bases his design process on extensive physical modeling at multiple scales, in which both the functional and formal aspects of a development are explored in detail. Very early in the process, actual building materials and large-scale mock-ups are employed to promote understanding of the design.

Besides his work in architecture, he has tried his hand at other projects ranging from jewelry design to television production set design. Some examples include:

• Jewelry for Tiffany’s
• Watches for Fossil
• CNBC talk show set for former Disney CEO Michael Eisner

Born in 1929, Mr. Gehry and his family moved to California after living in Toronto, Canada, until he was 18. Mr. Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1954 and studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

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