Stadium designers speculated early on that Coors Field would give up a lot of home runs.

The Beijing National Stadium, principal venue of the 2008 Summer Olympics, has been nicknamed " The Bird Nest " because of its architectural design, which its designers likened to a bird's woven nest.

* The design is similar to Foshan Stadium in China, built by the same designers.

Nostalgia week at Lewisohn Stadium, which had begun with the appearance of the 70-year-old Mischa Elman on Tuesday night, continued last night as Lily Pons led the list of celebrities in an evening of French operatic excerpts.

The dance, dancers and dance enthusiasts ( 8,500 of them ) had a much better time of it at Lewisohn Stadium on Saturday night than all had had two nights earlier, when Stadium Concerts presented the first of two dance programs.

The new facility had to be ready by the opening of the 1970 NFL season and was officially named Riverfront Stadium.

A court case followed in January 1905, as a result of which Archibald Leitch, a Scottish architect who had risen to prominence after his building of the Ibrox Stadium, a few years earlier, was hired to work on the stadium.

Recognizing that he had acquired a solid team, Veeck soon abandoned the aging, small and lightless League Park to take up full-time residence in massive Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

Cleveland Stadium had been a symbol of the Indians ' glory years in the 1940s and 1950s.

The rules committee considered widening the playing field to " open up " the game, but Harvard Stadium ( the first large permanent football stadium ) had recently been built at great expense ; it would be rendered useless by a wider field.

On March 7,, Wayne Huizenga, CEO of Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation, announced he had purchased 15 percent of the NFL's Miami Dolphins and 50 percent of the Dolphins ' home, Joe Robbie Stadium, for an estimated $ 30 million.

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

Three years after the war, the 1948 Summer Olympics were held at the original Wembley Stadium, at a time when the city had barely recovered from the war.

By early 1984, after the Colts ' lease on the dilapidated 64, 124 seat Memorial Stadium had expired, Irsay wanted the city of Baltimore to upgrade the stadium or build a new one.

On August 21, 2012 the Jaguars announced they had finalized a deal to play one regular season home game each year between 2013 and 2016 at London's historic Wembley Stadium as part of the NFL International Series.

D. C. United had been sharing RFK Stadium with Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals in Washington, D. C., before the latter's move into Nationals Park.

The team had received all required approvals and was awaiting site demolition ; however, the 2008 – 09 financial crisis ultimately led to the scrapping of the Trails Stadium project.

The group derives its name from Hillcrest Road which is the road on which the Trails Stadium would have been built if the project had not fallen through and then shifted to Kansas.

By 1969, the cricket ground had been demolished to make way for the present day rugby ground to the north and a second rugby stadium to the south, called the National Stadium.

By the time the final South Stand had been completed and the Stadium officially opened on 7 April 1984, the South Stand had cost £ 4. 5M.

Both stadia had approximately east-west alignment: the rugby ground to the north ( Castle Street ) end ; the National Stadium to the south ( Wood Street ) end.

In 1997, just thirteen years after the National Stadium had opened, it was considered too small and did not have the facilities required of the time and it was demolished and a new stadium, the Millennium Stadium, was built in its place ( completed to a north-south alignment and opened in June 1999 ).

The Stadium has been neglected for several years and is starting to show it.

Until 1994, these games were played in the Gator Bowl Stadium, a structure originally built in 1927.

Now the same structure of the South Stand of the rugby ground is also physically attached to the North Stand of the Millennium Stadium.

The Millennium Stadium was therefore built with the old reinforced concrete structure of the National Stadium ( North Stand ) and the new steel Millennium Stadium structure built around it.

As a temporary measure, the AIA purchased the ice rink structure that was used in the 2008 NHL Winter Classic at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.

However, in September 2007, the lower south side of Frank Clair Stadium was closed, due to cracks in the concrete structure.

* pressurized domes such as the USF Sun Dome and BC Place Stadium, where pressure loss would cause collapse of the structure.

In some cases, an inflatable roof is added to an otherwise traditional structure: the biggest example in the world was the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The most prominent structure in the sports complex is Roy Stewart Stadium.

This was intended as a temporary structure and remained in its unfinished state until 2004, when extensive work began on the station in conjunction with the reconstruction of Wembley Stadium.

As evidenced from the World Series programs, the team tried to rename the new structure Brush Stadium in honor of their then-owner John T. Brush, but the name did not stick, and it died with him.

The Pan-Pacific Auditorium was a landmark structure in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California which once stood at 7600 West Beverly Boulevard near the site of Gilmore Field, an early Los Angeles baseball venue predating Dodger Stadium.

A replica of the original concrete arch bearing the name " Kezar Stadium " was built on the west side of the stadium as a tribute to the original structure.

Isotopes Park retains the general structure of Albuquerque Sports Stadium, as well as its dimensions and the system connecting the dugout to the clubhouse.

Originally known as Sesquicentennial Stadium when it opened April 15, 1926, the structure was renamed " Philadelphia Municipal Stadium " after the Exposition's closing ceremonies.

The structure similar in shape to the Panathenaic Stadium, the site of the first modern Olympics in 1896, was completed in just four and a half months costing $ 310, 000.

The barely 14 year old Coporated Box stand was always designed to be dismantled for use elsewhere and there are proposals to move parts of the structure to University Oval and some to Queenstown's Stadium.

In 1924, the completed structure was dedicated as James Gamble Nippert Memorial Stadium with a capacity of 12, 000.

The structure was rebuilt in steel and concrete as the ballpark that would later be known as Griffith Stadium.