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Encyclopedia > Osborn Engineering
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Osborn Engineering, officially Osborn Architects & Engineers, is an architectural and engineering firm noted mostly for designing sports stadiums. More than 100 stadiums have been designed by Osborn, including such famous parks as Fenway Park in Boston, Yankee Stadium in New York, Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and numerous minor league, collegiate, and major league sports facilities in all sports.[1] [2] They also design other structures, inlcuding infrastructure and public sector buildings, industrial and manufacturing, and parking structures. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Fenway Park is the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub of the Universe (The State House, according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, is the hub of the Solar System), Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... The exterior of Yankee Stadium Yankee Stadium is the home stadium of the New York Yankees, a major league baseball team. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Tiger Stadium is a stadium located in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, USA. It hosted the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team for nearly a century before that franchise moved into the new Comerica Park in 2000. ... Nickname: Motor City, Motown Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Area    - City 370. ...

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Structures designed by Osborn Engineering

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League Park was a baseball stadium located in Cleveland, Ohio. ... Forbes Field was a Major League Baseball park in the Oakland neighborhood (or University District) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... Comiskey Park (35th Street & Shields Avenue, Chicago, Illinois) was the ballpark in which the Chicago White Sox played from 1910 to 1990. ... Griffith Stadium was a sports stadium that stood in Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1965, at the corner of Georgia Avenue and W Street, NW. An earlier wooden baseball park that stood on the site, National Park, was built in 1891, was destroyed by a fire in March 1911... Fenway Park is the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club. ... Tiger Stadium is a stadium located in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, USA. It hosted the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team for nearly a century before that franchise moved into the new Comerica Park in 2000. ... Braves Field was a baseball stadium that formerly stood in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Sportsmans Park was the name of a former Major League Baseball park in St. ... The exterior of Yankee Stadium Yankee Stadium is the home stadium of the New York Yankees, a major league baseball team. ... Milwaukee County Stadium (locally known as just County Stadium) was a ballpark in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1953 to 2000. ... Metropolitan Stadium (often referred to as the Met) was a sports stadium that once stood in Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. It opened in 1956 as the home of a minor league baseball team, the Minneapolis Millers of the American Association, replacing ancient Nicollet Park and built to specifications of major league... Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, informally known as RFK Stadium (or just RFK), is a professional sports stadium in the United States. ... Ohio Stadium (also known as The Horseshoe, or simply The Shoe) is the home of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. ...

See also

HOK Sport is a division of the international architectural firm HOK which specializes in sports facilities. ... HNTB Corporation (formerly Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff) is an architecture and engineering firm based in Kansas City, Missouri that built many bridges and professional ball stadiums across the United States and around the world. ...

References

  1. ^ Leventhal, Josh. Take Me Out to the Ballpark, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2000. ISBN 1-57912-112-8
  2. ^ Osborn Architects & Engineering homepage Retrieved November 9, 2006

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