Big Apple's famed arena takes a shine to Canadians

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Big Apple's famed arena takes a shine to Canadians

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2004 / November 15

The Toronto sports architecture firm Brisbin Brook Beynon is stepping into the scrappy world of New York real-estate politics with a commission to design the $300-million (U.S.) blockbuster renovation of Madison Square Garden, drafting a gleaming vision of a modern-day chameleonic entertainment palace choking on interactive technology. "We're ecstatic," said Brian Brisbin, a partner in the firm that has earned accolades for its design of the Air Canada Centre in Toronto and Vancouver's GM Place. "It gives us the ability to be involved in and represent our position as a design firm in the most prestigious venue in the world." The firm's plans for MSG, which are still in the concept stage, call for the arena to be transformed into a futuristic hallucination that George Orwell might have dreamed up with George Jetson.

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