Why is barclays center rust

Joe R — Twitter. This little piece of insight from a visitor to the Barclays Center is quite funny, if it is actually true. Joe is claiming that he overheard a construction working making fun of the rusted material they outfitted the exterior of the arena with and felt that the company that sold it could sell anything to anyone. A construction worker at the Barclays Center that I overheard said whoever sold them that rust could sell ice to a dead man. So true. Kelly Dwyer — Yahoo!

It turned all the surrounding sidewalks and a few neighboring structures brown. The company tried power-washing the stuff off, but they couldn't make it all go away. A large, complicated public sculpture from was crumbling by Here's the sculptor:. The steel companies are the villains And they disavow responsibility for its failures. In , The Nation called the material that framed the parking garage at La Guardia Airport "a triumph of metallurgy. The Barclays Center isn't counting on the rusty stuff for structural support.

But the design still trusts it to behave itself, despite decades of evidence to the contrary. You'd think weathered steel would be the eight-track tape of metals, something we had ditched by the s because we had better options.

Tickets for the Rihanna show go on sale today at noon. Yesterday we found out Best Coast is playing there with Green Day. The Barclays Center is supposed to look rusty; Protesters outside ribbon cutting today.

The structure never stopped rusting, the elements bored holes in the roof, and the city had to replace the building with Philips Arena 25 years later.

Things were even worse at the New Haven Coliseum, which opened in September I got to see it from the inside in , because my youth hockey team was practicing there. That's how bad it had gotten. Within a little more than a decade of its opening, the steel in the parking garage had rusted to the extent that the concrete it supported would crumble and fall on the street below. The rusty runoff also stained the glowing logos on the building's front, the ones you could see from Route It sat empty five years, until the city could find the money to demolish it.

In its place now sits a parking lot. Sure, economic factors and new competitors helped do the Coliseum in, but the architecture was so bad and dated that New Haven decided it'd rather go ahead without an arena. A New Haven Register columnist said that the place had "a face only a steel worker would love. Deadspin points out that the rust is in no way being used for structural support.