Settling down the controversy, Bruce Ratner has finally released the third version of the 675,000-square-foot arena that other than the basketball arena also integrates 16 residential and office towers. Designed by Shop Architects, a young New York firm, the Atlantic Yards is enclosed with rust-colored skin, woven out of weathered steel panels, which is punctured to illuminate at night. Comprising three meandering horizontal bands, the ground, the glass band and the floating band, made of mesh-like “weathered” steel and glass slices, offering glimpses of the arena interior to the passersby, the $800 million project makes a bold architectural statement to complement the surrounding buildings and neighborhoods. The arena with its sliced cost may feature some of the ideas of Frank Gehry, but it’ll still remain a compromised design.