A related ele ment, the circulation of pe destrian traffic in under ground concourses that con nect all the buildings, is regarded by some as one of the most important depart ures in urban design.
But that did nothing to lessen the eerie impact of walking around the ground concourses of Oriole Park and seeing everything shuttered and empty, plastic-covered and still, then looking down the tunnel to the field level to see the Orioles taking batting practice.
The original site included 430,000 square feet of retail space, most of it along a below-ground concourse.
But he said the parties had not yet reached agreement on how the retail square footage would be divided between the below-ground concourse and street-level buildings.
At 8 46 on the morning of 9/11, when the first plane hit the World Trade Center, Michael Lomonaco, the executive chef of Windows on the World, was in the building's below-ground concourse, where he had stopped to get his glasses fixed.
The newly configured space also includes retail stores along two levels of below-ground concourses and at street level.
Tickets for screenings and events and the free festival programme in English are available from the box office in the ground floor concourse area of the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden.
Between the towers' stocky forms, views will open straight through the ground-level concourse to the scoreboard and screaming fans.
Upon reaching the ground-level concourse, they either spill down into the lower-level seats or climb slender stairways through the matrix of beams to the upper concourses.
Sure, there are fans who feel aggrieved about what they see as a hockey-centric atmosphere, reflected in the steeply graded seats and in what seems to be a disproportionate array of Red Wings memorabilia scattered about the ground-floor concourse.
By contrast, the architects want the stadium's ground-level concourse to remain open to the park, allowing pedestrians to wander through the crisscrossing columns and gaze into the empty pit of the stadium.
