Posted Apr 3, 2009, 4:41 PM
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Quote from a review in the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/ar...a.html?_r=2&hp
Two New Baseball Palaces, One Stoic, One Scrappy
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
April 2, 2009
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American stadium design has been stuck in a nostalgic funk, with sports franchises recycling the same old images year after year.
Still, if you have to go with a retro look, New York City could have done worse than the new Yankee Stadium and Citi Field.
...each stadium subtly reflects the character of the franchises that built them. Yankee Stadium is the kind of stoic, self-conscious monument to history that befits the most successful franchise in American sports. The new home of the Mets, meanwhile, is scrappier and more lighthearted. It plays with history fast and loose, as if it were just another form of entertainment.
Citi Field’s facade, which is loosely modeled on Ebbets Field, the former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is more low-key. Its brick cladding gives it a warmth that Yankee Stadium doesn’t have. A pre-cast concrete band cuts across the arched exterior, breaking down the structure’s scale and emphasizing its horizontality.
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