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27-454: It was designed by Archasia, an architectural firm based in Taipei, and Populous , a Kansas City, Missouri , design and architectural firm specializing in sports venues. It is located at the site of the former Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium (built in 1958, opened 1959, demolished 2000). The arena was opened on 1 December 2005. The main arena has an adjustable floor space: its minimum floor space

54-655: A managers' buyout by HOK Group. In October 2015, Populous relocated to its new Americas headquarters at the newly renovated Board of Trade building at 4800 Main street near the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City. In August 2024, the Kansas City Business Journal reported that Populous was moving its Americas headquarters back downtown into the new 1400KC building in the Power and Light District . The company

81-531: A tendency to cater new ballparks toward wealthier ticket buyers, such as with expanded numbers of luxury suites . Several writers have noted that upper deck seating at new ballparks may actually be farther away from the field than in the older parks, partly as a result of these new upper decks being pushed higher by rows of luxury suites. One writer in The New Yorker said it is "not quite right to credit or blame Populous" for trends in their new stadiums—as it

108-451: Is 60m × 30m, and can be extended to 80m × 40m. The Chinese Taipei Ice Hockey League (CTIHL) plays out of the auxiliary arena, which is a 60m × 30m ice skating rink. The basement now houses two large gas turbine power generators to be used for the surrounding district during emergencies. Taipei Arena Sky Screen was constructed in December 2006, on the outer glass wall of Taipei Arena. It was

135-633: Is also based in Kansas City. Populous is credited for spearheading a new era of baseball park design in the 1990s, beginning with Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore. At Camden Yards, and in other stadiums built by Populous soon thereafter, such as Coors Field in Denver and Progressive Field in Cleveland, the ballpark was designed to incorporate aesthetic elements of the city's history and older " classic ballparks ." Camden Yards's red brick facade emulates

162-489: Is one of several Kansas City-based sports design firms that trace their roots to Kivett and Myers which designed the Truman Sports Complex which was one of the first modern large single purpose sports stadiums (previously, stadiums were designed for multipurpose use). Other firms with sports design presence in Kansas City that trace their roots to Kivett include Ellerbe Becket Inc. and HNTB Corp. 360 Architecture

189-409: Is ultimately team owners that plan what they want in future stadiums—but that the firm "certainly enabled" such changes. Kivett and Myers Kivett & Myers was a Kansas City, Missouri architecture firm that pioneered the design of modern professional sports stadiums. The firm was established in 1931 as the sole proprietorship of Clarence Kivett. With the addition of Ralph E. Myers in 1945

216-515: The Taipei Metro . Populous (company) Populous , legally Populous Holdings, Inc. , is a global architectural and design practice specializing in sports facilities, arenas and convention centers, as well as the planning and design of major special events. Populous was created through a management buyout in January 2009, becoming independently owned and operated. It is reported to be one of

243-496: The sightlines were "uniformly excellent." Camden Yards was hugely popular with baseball fans, and its success convinced many cities to invest public funds in their own new ballparks to help revitalize struggling urban neighborhoods. From 1992 to 2012, HOK Sport/Populous were the lead architects on 14 Major League Baseball stadiums and helped renovate four existing stadiums. Populous's designs across Major League Baseball have become so prevalent that some critics have asserted that

270-902: The Cumonow Residence in Mission Hills, the Missouri State Office Building at 13th and Holmes, the old Temple B'nai Jehudah at 69th and Holmes, Spencer Chemistry and Biological Sciences Building at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and the Fairmount Hotel in the Country Club Plaza and the Mission Hills Country Club clubhouse. The partners had a major role in the introduction and expansion of modern architecture in Kansas City and were committed to modernist principles. The two most prominent commissions came in

297-410: The arena has held more art and cultural activities (such as live concerts) than sporting events, which it was originally designed and built for. These have included Disney on Ice , Cirque du Soleil , and Cats . International Artists in the table below are highlighted in light blue. Non-Entertainment Events: Dates Unknown: Annual events: Taipei Arena is accessible from Taipei Arena Station of

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324-515: The concrete exteriors of the "cookie-cutter" multi-purpose stadiums that preceded the new parks, Populous incorporated other innovative touches: natural grass playing surfaces (instead of artificial turf ), asymmetrical field dimensions, various park-specific idiosyncrasies (like Tal's Hill in Houston), and less foul territory that would keep fans farther from the diamond. And because the stadiums were designed for baseball instead of several sports,

351-420: The distinctiveness that was originally found in early retro-classic ballparks is impossible to maintain. Some older ballparks like Fenway Park have strange dimensions because of the small parcels of land on which the parks were built. Most new stadiums are built on larger, dedicated land parcels. One sportswriter said the attempt to emulate the old parks' quirks is "contrived." Some commentators have criticized

378-538: The firm became the partnership of Kivett & Myers. The firm was acquired by HNTB in 1975. Kivett's first big design project was the art deco design of the flagship Katz Drug Store (1934), later an Osco, at Main Street and Westport Road in Kansas City. The owners, Mike and Ike Katz, were his mother's brothers. He was joined by Ralph Myers in 1940, and they became partners in Kivett & Myers in 1945. They went on to design

405-419: The firm's architects also went on to open a sports architecture office in Kansas City for Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum in 1983, now the independent firm of Populous , with offices in Kansas City, London and Brisbane. In 1988 several more architects left HNTB and opened a sports architecture office in Kansas City for Ellerbe Becket . This practice was known primarily for professional indoor sports arenas, but

432-531: The largest architecture firms in the world. Populous formerly operated as HOK Sport Venue Event , which was part of the HOK Group . In 1983, HOK under Jerry Sincoff created a sports group (initially called the Sports Facilities Group and later changed to HOK Sport Venue Event). The firm initially consisted of eight architects in Kansas City, and grew to employ 185 people by 1996. The HOK Sport studio

459-499: The late 1960s and early 1970s with terminals and control tower at Kansas City International Airport (a design layout with in "C" shape so that all gates were within a few feet of the road) and the Truman Sports Complex for Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Royals . A prominent feature of the stadia design favoured by Kivett and Myers is the spiral ramps leading to the higher echelons of seating. This can be seen at Kauffman Stadium and Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, as well as

486-501: The latter firm to let him go. During World War II Kivett was at Knob Noster, Missouri , where he superintended construction for the air force. He was active in the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and was elected a Fellow in 1967. Kivett was married in 1934. He lived for twenty years after his retirement and died in Kansas City at the age of 91. Ralph Elbert Myers FAIA (November 30, 1917 – December 3, 2007)

513-671: The massive Baltimore & Ohio Warehouse at Camden Yards that dominates the right field view behind Eutaw Street , whereas Progressive Field's glass and steel exterior "call[s] to mind the drawbridges and train trestles that crisscross the nearby Cuyahoga River ." Starting with Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati in 2003, a number of Populous Sport's stadiums featured more contemporary and even futuristic designs. Subsequent stadium exteriors featuring this motif opened in Washington, D.C. , and Minnesota . In addition to moving away from

540-509: The now-demolished Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey . The initial design in 1967 called for the baseball and football stadiums to be built side by side sharing the same parking infrastructure as well as a rolling roof that was to slide from one stadium to the other. The concepts of separate stadiums for baseball and football was revolutionary at the time when stadiums were designed as gigantic multipurpose venues. The rolling roof

567-575: The thirty years the partnership was active, Kivett & Myers were awarded nearly half of all design awards awarded by the local chapter of the AIA. In addition to HNTB as the firm's official successor, Kivett & Myers employees would found over fifty independent architecture firms in the Kansas City area. The largest and best-known of these is BNIM , founded by R. Bruce Patty and three other Kivett associates in 1970. HNTB went on to build several professional stadiums, indoor arenas and ballparks. Several of

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594-546: The world's largest LED display at that time. The screen is a long arc type outdoor dynamic display, featuring a built in light sensor that enables LED to adjust its own brightness according to ambient lighting. It was built by Optotech and currently operated by Nova Media. It is on 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, displaying mainly corporate advertisements, live coverage and visual creativity supplemented content. The screen also engages its audience though cross-screen interactive events and applications. Since opening in 2005,

621-531: Was also responsible for several major stadia. Clarence Kivett FAIA (October 18, 1905 – December 3, 1996) was born Clarence Kivovitch in Saint Paul, Minnesota . He was educated at the University of Kansas , graduating in 1928 with a BS in architecture. He worked for Kansas City architects Madorie & Bihr and Hoit, Price & Barnes until 1931, when the economic conditions of the Great Depression caused

648-560: Was born in Kansas City. He was educated at the University of Illinois , graduating in 1940 with a BArch. He then worked for Kivett for a year while also teaching at the Finlay Engineering College . In 1941, during World War II, he joined North American Aviation and had charge of plant design for the next four years. Myers was also active in the AIA and was elected a Fellow in 1964. He died in Prairie Village, Kansas , at

675-599: Was first based in the city's Garment District in the Lucas Place office building. In 2005, it moved into its headquarters at 300 Wyandotte in the River Market neighborhood in a new building it designed, on land developed as an urban renewal project through tax incentives from the city's Planned Industrial Expansion Authority. It was the first major company to relocate to the neighborhood in several decades. In March 2009, HOK Sport Venue Event changed its name to Populous after

702-530: Was initially too expensive and too impractical in Kansas City however it was to be applied at several stadiums elsewhere in the decades that followed. In 1975 the Kansas City civil engineering and architecture firm HNTB acquired Kivett & Myers, with Kivett retiring and Myers becoming HNTB's first architectural partner. At the time of the acquisition, major in-progress projects included the Lisbon Airport and Munich Airport . Myers retired in 1982. During

729-550: Was led by architect Ron Labinski , who has been described as "the world's first sports venue architect." On several projects, HOK Sport had teamed with international design practice LOBB Partnership, which maintained offices in London, England, and Brisbane, Australia. On HOK Sport's 15th anniversary in November 1998, the firm merged with LOBB. The new practice retained headquarters in all three cities. The Kansas City, Missouri , office

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