(06-07-2023, 08:40 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(06-07-2023, 08:28 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Daily's Place should definitely be a bargaining chip for the city to demand quality and accuracy of final plan to execution. 

They crapped the bed with that add on IMO. Original concept was something better than that. 
I think it got rushed because the football staff convinced Khan they needed a flew field ASAP and they cut corners to get it done quick.

But that has nothing to do with whether or not the designers have consulted engineers and considered Hurricane durability.

You have some experience here. Could they upgrade the existing design to make it acoustically better? Or even respectable?

They could definitely make Daily's Place less acoustically horrible by treating a number of reflective surfaces with various coatings and mounted diffusion panels. It's a pricey endeavor in a space with open air elements. But do-able. 

Spreading satellite speakers and smaller arrays of speakers to the challenged areas of the room is another solution when two giant arrays create too much reflection in a large space. It's pricey to link them all and get the satellites timed/delayed perfectly with the main arrays, but it is definitely doable. 

IIRC - the overall look of the exterior was originally a very different concept than what we ended up with as well.

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