A Salute to Major League Baseball and the National Football League
September 17, 2003
6:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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2007 Related
2006 Clark Construction Group
2005 Forest City Enterprises
2004 GSA
2003 MLB and NFL
2002 DuPont
2001 Walt Disney Company
2000 Gerald D. Hines
1999 McGraw-Hill Companies
1998 The Bechtel Group
1997 Community Builders of Washington, D.C.
1996 Cindy and Jay Pritzker
1995 Lady Bird Johnson
1994 James A. Johnson & Fannie Mae
1993 J. Carter Brown
1992 Civic Leadership of Greater Pittsburgh
1991 The Rockefeller Family
1990 IBM Corporation
1989 Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
1988 James W. Rouse
1986 J. Irwin Miller
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The National Building Museum presented its 2003 Honor Award to the National Football League and Major League Baseball, in recognition of the role that new professional sports facilities have played in the revitalization of cities across the country. In recent years, baseball parks and football stadiums have spurred a wide variety of mixed-use, commercial, and residential development that has brought new vitality to underutilized urban areas. Many of these facilities are also outstanding works of architecture, engineering, and construction in their own right, incorporating sensitively designed facades that relate to surrounding structures, pedestrian-friendly access, and innovative structural solutions that allow great flexibility while maximizing spectator comfort.
NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and MLB Commissioner Bud Selig accepted the shared award in person. The award was presented at an elegant dinner attended by more than 1,000 people, including leaders from the worlds of sports, design and construction, business, journalism, and government.
