December 12, 2008
  Arkansas’ Arvest Ballpark Made in the Shade with Tensile Fabric
The new Arvest Ballpark minor league baseball stadium in Springdale, Ark., features a rooftop cantilevered tensile fabric structure wrapping around the ballpark to provide shade for the sky boxes and one-deck seating bowl. Tensile structures also serve as canopies at the stadium entrance and exit points. Kansas City, Mo.-based HOK Sport designed Arvest Ballpark and partnered with Costa Mesa, Calif.-based FabriTec Structures on the tensile fabric canopy. Arvest Ballpark has been named Ballpark of the Year by Baseballparks.com.

NBBJ Opens Anchor for Seoul’s Digital Media City
Nuritkum Square designed for all phases of IT business
Nuritkum Square in Seoul, South Korea, was designed to foster the growth of the country’s rapidly growing IT and digital media industries from idea inception through public presentation. Designed for the Korean IT Industry Promotion Agency by the Los Angeles office of NBBJ, Nuritkum Square offers nascent and burgeoning IT and media businesses, a business center, a research and development building, media production facilities, and an exhibition space known as the digital pavilion.

Appeal for a Peal at Virginia Union Belgian Friendship Building
In 1941, the Belgian Government presented the Friendship Building and Tower, a centerpiece of the Belgian Pavilion at that year’s World’s Fair, to Virginia Union University, a historically black college/university in the segregated South, in a gesture of international goodwill. However, prior to presenting the structure to the Richmond university, the Belgians removed the bell carillon from the Henry Van de Velde-designed building and gave it to President Herbert Hoover, who offered it to his alma mater, Stanford University. Now a nonprofit organization is working to raise funds and awareness to provide new bells for the tower and restore the 1939 building.

 
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