With an unlimited $1.1bn finances, the house of the New York Islanders hockey staff has had greater than only a face elevate
Phrases by Emily Martin
Photos by Will Ellis
Challenge Information
Structure and inside design: Leap Studio and Populous
Consumer: New York Enviornment Companions, LLC
Measurement: 69,213 sq m
LONDON-BASED structure and interiors apply, Leap Studios, together with its father or mother firm, Populous, has designed the inside of the brand new $1.1bn UBS Enviornment in Belmont Park, New York. Located inside historic Belmont Park, the 17,255-seat UBS Enviornment is the brand new house to the New York Islanders of the Nationwide Hockey League. The sector was designed by Populous as a multi-purpose facility to host each hockey and stay leisure.
The sector’s meals providing contains 18 market-style concessions.
Working with Populous, Leap Studios has created a venue that celebrates Metro New York and Belmont Park, together with its well-known neighbouring racecourse. The challenge introduced a chance for Leap Studios to create a contemporary, twenty first century expertise for friends, whereas paying homage to a staff and website that’s steeped in historical past.
Leap Studios’ need to honour the previous as you journey via the sector is clear from the outset. Followers enter the stadium via an entrance impressed by Grand Central Station and Park Avenue Armory. As you step into the Grand Corridor, guests are greeted by a characteristic ceiling resembling the night time sky, with a mottled paint end and embedded LEDs.
The complete venue is navigable via a essential concourse, and is serviced by broad thoroughfares that commemorate New York’s subway line
Shifting into the primary concourse, Leap Studios pays tribute to Metro New York. An articulated colonnade runs all through the sector echoing the arches of Central Park, while tile designs impressed by the New York subway line the partitions. The sector’s meals providing contains 18 market-style concessions, based mostly on the town’s kiosks which might be a characteristic all through Belmont Park. The higher concourse bars draw upon parts of Metro New York’s industrial heritage, as seen within the Brooklyn Bridge-inspired intricate cable work. Even the restrooms pay homage to the town, with the signage using the acquainted font of the enduring New Yorker Journal.
The complete venue is navigable via a essential concourse, and is serviced by broad thoroughfares that commemorate New York’s subway line
Leap Studios goals for UBS Enviornment to be greater than a sports activities or music venue, however an entire fan expertise, using a story as showcased within the apply’s work at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The primary concourse hall on the UBS Enviornment resembles a gallery the place art work, illuminated by spotlights, tells tales of the wealthy historical past of Belmont Park and the New York Islanders staff, and vibrant lighting modes create atmospheric thresholds as you stroll via the area.
The scheme additionally seeks to have fun historic figures. Harriet’s Bar honours Harriet Quimby, the primary US lady to realize a pilot’s licence after an aviation match at Belmont Park sparked her curiosity, whereas Eddie’s Bar celebrates Eddie D Brown, who in 1870 grew to become the primary black jockey to win the Belmont Stakes driving ‘Kingfisher’.
The Offside Tavern is one in every of a number of bars the place followers can get meals and drinks
Reaching the higher concourse and there’s a give attention to the stadium’s house staff, the New York Islanders. 4 banners grasp above the sector’s essential Tailgate bar, showcasing the Islanders emblem alongside pictures of Islanders supporters’ golf equipment from around the globe.
An exterior shot of the UBS Enviornment
‘The inspiration behind UBS Enviornment centred round creating an area that supplied a connection to the previous by honouring the native historical past of Belmont Park and New York,’ says Shaun Fernandes, co-founder and inventive director at Leap Studios. ‘By celebrating the realm’s distinctive tales, together with these of the New York Islanders, we aimed to create an enviornment that brings collectively the local people and establishes the venue as a high-quality vacation spot for plenty of totally different leisure experiences.’
