Presenting the new Las Vegas Athletics baseball stadium.

[Diamond_Dog]

The Armadillo! Pretty darn cool. Opening in 2028.





Planned to be the new Vegas home of Oakland's Athletics Major League Baseball team, the stadium is being created in collaboration with engineering company HNTB and will be situated on a 9-acre (3.6-hectare) site on Las Vegas Boulevard, between Tropicana Avenue and Reno Avenue.

Its design brings to mind Foster + Partners' somewhat similar SEC Armadillo – apparently the humble mammal has inspired more buildings than we'd realized – and actually offers a practical benefit. Its five overlapping shells, which are meant to resemble baseball pennants (team flags), will be positioned to mitigate any sunlight glare for the baseball players, while at the same time allowing indirect natural light to permeate through its northern-oriented clerestory windows. It will also be fronted by the world's largest cable net glass wall, which will use high tension cables to hold the glazing in place.

https://newatlas.com/architecture/athletics-ballpark-bjarke-ingels-group/

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. I'd rather see a game at Fenway Park.

The greatest ballpark in baseball.

[True Dough]

2. Hmm. Anyone see a resemblance?

[rsdsharp]

8. That was my first thought.

[Mr.Bill]

9. I remember twhen that was built

someone said it looked like a bunch of nuns playing rugby.

[Mosby]

3. Who's paying for it?

I'm guessing not the team owners.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. I wondered about that, too.

[Auggie]

5. Suckers

[Not Heidi]

6. Probably Arte Moreno.

He doesn't give a single shit about "his" own team.

{"His" because I believe the Angels belong to the fans. We care more than the owner.)

[Mr.Bill]

10. If it's like the Raider's stadium,

you will be paying for it every time you rent a room in that town. (room tax)

[usonian]

7. It will be built without money.

No way in hell Fisher will spend more than $20 on it.
Las Vegas just dropped 1.5 or 2 billion on a stadium.

Slot machines in the seats?

Seems open, not such a great idea for air conditioning those 120 degree days.

[TxGuitar]

11. And the A's will still be cellar dwellers

But at least they'll have fancy digs!

[jmowreader]

12. Well...it IS Vegas...

This place doesn't really do anything for me. I prefer my baseball stadiums to LOOK like baseball stadiums.