Last week, brand-new $611 million Nationals Park, home to the National League East’s Washington Nationals baseball club, officially received a LEED Silver rating from USGBC, becoming the first baseball stadium in the country to earn the designation. Just a scant few days before Major League Baseball’s 2008 Opening Day, the ballpark earned 33 LEED points for a design by HOK Sport that, among other things, respects the park’s location in Southeast adjacent to D.C.’s Anacostia River. So far, so good for the Nats at their new home; Ryan Zimmerman cracked a walk-off solo home run in the bottom of the ninth to give the club a 3-2 win over the Atlanta Braves in the first regular season game at the ballpark on Sunday night.
March 31st, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "HOK Sport"
HOK Sport & Hunt/Bovis: N.Y. Mets’ Citi Field
I’ve had an extremely difficult time locating information about the sustainable design features out at Citi Field- the Mets’ new $600 million ballpark that’s rapidly rising in a former parking lot beyond the centerfield fence out at Shea- but in an article that was posted at green-links earlier this week, Lew Blaustein set forth the [...]
July 18th, 2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued