New sports scoreboard unveiled
A Washington DC stadium has revealed its new sports scoreboard for the first time as part of a brand new development.
The $611 million Nationals Park in south-east Washington showed off its new scoreboard feature at the season opener against the Atlanta Braves this weekend.
As well as a state-of-the-art scoreboard, the stadium, home to the major league team the Washington Nationals, also features luxury skyboxes and an asymmetrical field to keep fans at the edge of the action.
Architects at this baseball-only stadium aimed to demonstrate 'forward-looking' sports architecture, the Baltimore Sun reports.
"It has all the right stuff," Joseph Spear, in charge of the project for designers HOK Sport told the newspaper.
"Everything we've learned in the last 20 years is baked in, in Washington," he added.
This includes 41,888 seats and special eco-friendly features including a green roof, high-efficiency field lighting and a ground and storm water filtration system designed to protect the nearby river from peanut shells.
Tuesday, 25th March 2008
