Victor J. Blue / Bloomberg-Could the Milwaukee Bucks’ new arena have a design as inspiring as the fleet and sinewy Barclays Center in Brooklyn, home of the Nets?

Amid the debates about a new downtown arena for the Milwaukee Bucks, one question remains largely untouched: Will we get great architecture?Nothing will define the project — and its impact on Milwaukee — like the design.Peter Feigin, the Bucks' new president, recently said he'd like the multipurpose arena, expected to cost between $400 million and $500 million, to look like it "embraces Wisconsin."

"The truth is, we don't need it to look like a glass spaceship in the landscape in Milwaukee, which has an unbelievably rich heritage of authentic architecture, which is just beautiful," Feigin said last month at a luncheonsponsored by the Rotary and Milwaukee Press Club. "So how do you really ingrain it with what exists already?"The Bucks aren't saying much yet about design, but these words could be code for disaster: postmodern schlock, architecture that visually riffs on our 19th-century beer halls.......Continue Reading

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