HOK Sport is a division of the international architectural firm HOK which specializes in sports facilities. HOK is a major international architectural practice. ...

In the United States it has designed many baseball grounds. Almost all its baseball stadiums share certain core features: Picture of Fenway Park. ...

• Green seats
• Red brick
• Special event occurs when someone hits a home run (for example, fountains splash, volcanos go off, a train runs)
• If the stadium is next to a visible metropolis, a hole or other architectural feature is cut to allow a view of the skyline of that metropolis
• Seating is broken up into many different "Seating neighborhoods" to avoid monolithic seating
• It is still possible to watch the game from the food stands
• There are usually special playgrounds for children

Stadiums HOK Sport has designed include:

• The Coliseum (Nashville)
• Citizens Bank Park (with Ewing Cole Cherry Brott of Philadelphia)
• Coors Field
• Dolphins Stadium
• Hong Kong Stadium
• Iowa Events Center
• Jacobs Field
• Marlins Stadium
• Millennium Stadium
• Minute Maid Park
• Nationals Ballpark
• New Busch Stadium
• Oriole Park at Camden Yards
• PETCO Park
• PNC Park
• Raymond James Stadium
• SBC Park
• Telstra Stadium (co-designed)
• Tropicana Field

Critics have disparaged the similarity of many of the designs, especially those of baseball parks, calling them "stadium chainstores." HOK responds that this is often due to the clients requesting what they liked about other stadiums. See Coliseum for the structure in Rome, or Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the structure in Los Angeles. ... Citizens Bank Park is a 43,500-seat baseball-only stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that opened on April 3, 2004 and hosted its first regular season baseball game on April 12. ... Coors Field in Denver, Colorado is the home of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team. ... Dolphins Stadium (originally named Dolphin Stadium, later named Joe Robbie Stadium and then briefly Pro Player Park before becoming Pro Player Stadium, and now back to Dolphins Stadium) is an American football and baseball stadium in Miami, Florida. ... Hong Kong Stadium (Chinese: 香港大球場; Cantonese IPA: , Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 daai6 kau4 coeng4, Yale: hēung góng daaih kàuh chèuhng; Mandarin Pinyin: Xiānggǎng Dàqiúcháng; alternatively, 香港政府大球場; informally, 大球場) is the main sports venue of Hong Kong with a maximum seating capacity of 40,000, including... The Iowa Events Center is a public events complex located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. ... Jacobs Field is a baseball stadium located in the middle of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. ... Marlins Stadium Location: Miami, Florida, USA Tenant: Florida Marlins Owner: Miami-Dade County Architect: [[HOK Sport + Venue + Event]] Cost: $420 million Opening: 2008 The Ballpark will include a retractable roof, approximately 38,000 seats of which 3,000 are premium seats, and 62 luxury suites. ... Millennium Stadium The Millennium Stadium (Welsh: Stadiwm y Mileniwm) in Cardiff is the national stadium of Wales, used primarily for rugby union and football. ... Minute Maid Park is a baseball stadium in Houston, Texas, opened in 2000 to house the Houston Astros. ... Nationals Ballpark, the planned new ballpark for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball, is projected to open in April 2008. ... Sketch of New Busch Stadium New Busch Stadium is the planned stadium for the Major League Baseball St. ... Oriole Park at Camden Yards is a Major League Baseball stadium located in Baltimore, Maryland, which was constructed to replace the aging Memorial Stadium. ... PETCO Park is an open-air stadium in downtown San Diego, California. ... PNC Park is home the the Major League Baseball, Pittsburgh Pirates. ... Raymond James Stadium is a stadium for American football and soccer located in Tampa, Florida. ... SBC Park (formerly Pacific Bell Park) is an open-air baseball stadium, home to the San Francisco Giants of the National League. ... This page is for Telstra Stadium, Sydney. ... Tropicana Field is a domed stadium in St. ...

External link

• Official site of HOK Sport