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Publication Date: Spring/Summer 1995
Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium and Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Stadium exemplify many of the major-league baseball stadiums built in the past 45 years. “They’re all these closed, modernistic-looking structures that don't engage the community,” says Michael Dollin, the Downtown Center Studio coordinator for ASU’s Joint Urban Design Program.
Baltimore’s Camden Yards and Cleveland’s Jacobs’ Field serve as prototypes for a new wave of stadium design that opens into the surrounding community via the outfield walls. Bank One Ballpark, the planned retractable-dome stadium for downtown Phoenix, is part of this new design concept, according to Dollin.
Earlier this year, the Joint Urban Design Program generated a series of photorealistic computer images simulating what the new stadium will look like from various downtown locations. The stadium will be the home of Arizona’s recently awarded major-league baseball franchise, the Arizona Diamondbacks.