A model of the Athletics' future stadium is displayed before a Major League Baseball spring training game between the Oakland Athletics and Milwaukee Brewers during Big League Weekend at Las Vegas Ballpark on Friday, March 8, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Ellen Schmidt / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @ellenschmidtttd
A model of the Athletics' future stadium is displayed before a Major League Baseball spring training game between the Oakland Athletics and Milwaukee Brewers during Big League Weekend at Las Vegas Ballpark on Friday, March 8, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Ellen Schmidt / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @ellenschmidtttd
A model of the Athletics' future stadium is displayed before a Major League Baseball spring training game between the Oakland Athletics and Milwaukee Brewers during Big League Weekend at Las Vegas Ballpark on Friday, March 8, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Ellen Schmidt / Las Vegas Review-Journal) @ellenschmidtttd
The Oakland Athletics gave a small glimpse of what their planned Las Vegas stadium will look like with an illuminated model on display Friday.
A plain white spherical model sits on a table at The Club at Las Vegas Ballpark, emitting a kelly green light.
The Athletics are in town for the big league weekend at the Aviators' Triple-A stadium. The A's play the Milwaukee Brewers at 1:05 PM on Saturday.
The light brought the design to life. Five pennant-shaped strips wrap around the outside of the building, featuring four slivers of windows across the roof of the building, with a massive glass curtain wall located on the outfield of the stadium, facing the strip.
“We wanted a design that makes you feel like you're outside, even though it's an indoor stadium, so there are all kinds of important window openings,” A's Stadium owner John Fisher told the Review-Journal. “The open window in the stadium is the largest window, and it's a very thin glass structure. When you're outside, you feel like you can look straight into the stadium. When you're inside and looking outside, you get the same feeling.”
The model isn't detailed, but it gives an idea of how the building glows at night, fitting in perfectly with the bright lights of the resorts that run up and down Las Vegas Boulevard.
Having a 360-degree view of the stadium design also gave a better idea of how the sun plays a role. The roof's window strips and plexiglass wall face northwest, away from the sun when behind the park to the east, and don't have as much impact on fans inside the stadium, but still allow some natural light. To enter.
“It opens up so you have all the soft sunlight during the day and then you basically have the power of the strip at night,” said Bjarke Ingels, the stadium's lead designer. “You'll get all the energy of the strip coming in, and you'll also get all the energy of the game.”
The A's are working to begin construction in April 2025, with a roughly three-year timeframe to be ready for the 2028 MLB season.
So, the stadium that will be displayed by the first team will not be a foot-tall model, but rather a 250-foot stadium ready to welcome Southern Nevada to the big leagues.
Contact Mick Akers at makers@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-2920. He follows @micacres On X.
