European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 31, 1990 the stars and stripes Pago 23 my i t it v i if Quot Ltd 1, a it or m Hgt in my m 1 Yum 1 a Artia �4np. Six e Rof Cas he Lumu hot a it a a Kass Tifanni. Liar the design of Baltimore a Camden Yards Ballpark scheduled to open for the 1992 season is intended to remind fans of old baseball facilities such As St. I amiss sportsman spark. Architect refines the shape of sports 1 by Walt Morrissette staff writer Berlin a not All the sampling of americans Best Talent that came to Berlin earlier this month for the american bowl took the Field. A cerebral heavyweight who accompanied the nil behemoths just watched and Learned. Ron Labinski was a guest of the Kansas City chiefs for their american bowl exhibition with the los Angeles rams in Berlin. Although most fans Are probably not familiar with his name they re often Well acquainted with his work. The stadium and Arena architects achievements include a royals stadium 40,000 seats and Arrowhead stadium 78,000 seats in Kansas City also known As the Harry s. Truman sports Complex. A Joe Robbie stadium in Miami the 75,000-seat Home of the dolphins and super bowl Xxiii. A buffaloes Pilot Field the 19,000-seat state of the Art minor league Park a with Plush seats press Box and luxury boxes a that will be expanded to 40,000 if the City gets a major Teague expansion team a the 18,000-seat Bradley Center in Milwaukee a Home of the lion Labinski Aba s Bucks and the Lity officials Hope an nil expansion team. A the new $110 million Florida Sune Oast dome in St. Petersburg 43,000 capacity where the locals Hope they can lure a major league baseball expansion team. Labinski a formula for Success seems simple. A the essence of stadium design is a thorough understanding Ond interpolation of the needs of us users the Spectra i a the essence of stadium design is a thorough understanding and interpretation of the needs of its users the spectators the teams the Media and the operators a Arena architect Ron Labinski tors the teams the Media and the operators a he said. While in Europe Labinski talked to officials in Berlin Disseldorf and Frankfurt about new spoils facilities. His firm is wrapping up a study to build a new 18,000-seat ice hockey Arena in Disseldorf that could also be used for concerts and conventions a fall these things take a Long time to develop. They have a need for Modem facilities a Labinski said. A but the talks in Disseldorf Are pretty far along. That could happen in six months. We be presented preliminary drawings. Once we get the go ahead we would present construction drawings. A what we do when we go into a foreign country or even when we build Here is we go in and associate ourselves with a local construction  he is also working with officials in Manchester England on their bid for the 1996 summer olympics. A if Manchester gets the games they would need a lot of new construction a new stadium new Arena new aquatic  this is All Heady stuff for a former member of the army corps of engineers. Labinski was in Roth while studying his Craft at the University of Illinois and later joined the 1st inf dives 1st combat engr in in the Early �?T60s. He left the army in 1965. The division was sent to Vietnam a year later. Stateside he remains Busy from coast to coast with ongoing projects in a Baltimore where the Camden Yards Ballpark is under construction. The 46,000-seat stadium a being built  Camden Railroad Yards next to the a amp of warehouses near the inner Harbor a is designed to remind fans of ebbets Field in Brooklyn Fenway Park in Boston or the old sportsman spark in St. Louis. Its scheduled opening coincides with the beginning of the orioles 1992 season. Lubiniski also is involved in a 65,000-Scal football stadium called a phase ii of this project should the nil return to Baltimore. A Anaheim Calif where a 20,000-seat Arena is being built based on his design. Orange county officials Hope to use that facility to land nil and Aba expansion teams or said Labinski a lure the clippers away from  Anaheim has experience stealing teams from . The City enclosed Anaheim stadium in 1979 a with Labinski a assistance a boosting its seating capacity from 43, pm to 69,000 to lure the rams from memorial coliseum its hard to believe he designed royals stadium 20 years ago and it opened in 1973. It is still considered one of the most Beautiful stadiums in baseball As Arrowhead is in football. A those stadiums still look Good because of two things a Labinski said. A one Good design and two the teams have maintained them very  while he designed stadiums in a a longhand 20 years ago his firm of Hok sports facilities group a division of the Hellmuth Obata and Kassabaum architectural firm now relies on computers. A computers Are indispensable now a said Labinski. A they can take us from design through construction right up to completion on the screen. We can pick any seat in the House and get a View from it on the  although Toronto a sky dome with its movable roof is probably the ultimate in stadiums a a it a not very affordable a Labinski said referring to the sky dome a $400 million Price tag. This Means you probably wont see the sky dome duplicated anywhere else. A domes with fabric roofs Are More popular but we done to need air supported roofs anymore Tike the met radome in Minneapolis. We can make rigid fabric roofs now like we did for the Sun coast