Marlins Park facts for kids
Marlins Park is a baseball park in the Miami, Florida neighborhood of Little Havana that is home to the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball. Before Marlins Park opened in 2012, the team, then known as the Florida Marlins, played home games at the venue now known as Hard Rock Stadium. Marlins Park is located on the former site of the Orange Bowl Stadium.
Images for kids
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The Marlins' former home at what was then Dolphin Stadium was primarily a football stadium, shown prepping for a Dolphins game with gridlines over the diamond in August 2007.
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LoanDepot Park is an abstract, contemporary building which combines baseball with art and the essence of Miami.
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Pastel, Miami-Deco-influenced wall tiles in 4 main parking garages connect the facility to its small-scaled, Little Havana environs
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The colorful ballpark has artwork such as tiled walkways on the front plaza by kinetic-op artist Carlos Cruz-Diez
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An LED show illuminates the super columns during night games, and a rubber membrane lining the roof reduces heat-island effect.
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Panorama of LoanDepot Park
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The east side with the windows retracted
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The Marlins' $2.5 million home run sculpture. The right half of its base also formed part of "The Bermuda Triangle" quirk in the outfield fence between 2012 and 2016
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The Budweiser Bar and The Clevelander in left field, to the left of the HR feature (not seen)
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A side view of the home run structure at LoanDepot Park
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One of the columns at LoanDepot Park that supports the roof when the roof is opened
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Baseball in Motion by Dominic Pangborn
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The super-columns are all nearly complete, with one crossbeam already in place, which will support the retractable roof, February 6, 2010
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The site on July 2, 2010. The interior bowl is being completed on the west side, from a view at the outfield
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The site on November 6, 2010. The main center roof being constructed
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February 15, 2011
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Adjacent parking structure on February 15, 2011
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The site two weeks before completion of the final roof panel on March 13, 2011
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The site on August 13, 2011, as seen from the Dolphin Expressway (SR 836) traveling east
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Construction on August 25, 2011
See also
In Spanish: LoanDepot Park para niños
