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I did not realize he designed Arrowhead. My wife and her family are all from the Kansas City area (and are obviously excited about today's game!), and when I am out there, Arrowhead is held up as such a great place to watch a game, even after 50 years.

When you think about the style of sports stadia (stadiums?) that were built in that era, but Kansas City was the one place that basically got it right. There were elements of the Truman Sports Complex that definitely are from that time (the shape and uniform dimensions of Royals Stadium, both facilities using AstroTurf into the 1990s), and it was built with acres of paved-over parking lots in the middle of nowhere as part of the design.

But Royals (now Kaufmann) Stadium was always seen as the best of that era (Phily, Pittsburgh, Cincy, Montreal, Atlanta, etc), and I've been to Kaufmann since their renovation a while back - it is a great place to watch a baseball game.

I haven't been to a game at Arrowhead, but it probably belongs right up there with Lambeau for the experience. It is now the 2nd-oldest NFL stadium (I don't count Soldier Field, in the sense that it has been so changed by a massive renovation that it is not really the same place). The funny thing about the design of Arrowhead is not just that it is one of a kind in its feel, look, and experience - it is also built to be really loud, and it remains one of the largest seating capacities in the NFL. It is rather remarkable that somebody designed something like this in the early 1970s, when nobody else was doing anything remotely like this. And the, almost 20 years later, he designs Camden Yards, when people were still building stuff like New Comiskey? What a remarkable talent Labinski was.

So you're saying the broke the cookie cutter when they made him?

Labinski's notable projects include the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas; the Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, Arizona; and the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada. He was also involved in the design of several NFL stadiums with https://upthesis.net/ , including the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida. Ron Labinski, an accomplished stadium designer, passed away at the age of 85. Labinski was a pioneer in the field of stadium architecture, having designed and overseen the construction of numerous sports facilities around the world.