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SI.com Tabs Ellerbe Becket For Look Into Future of Arenas

March 13th, 2006

KANSAS CITY, Mo – SI.com, the online version of Sports Illustrated, this week celebrates the future of arenas by featuring the Ellerbe Becket-designed John Paul Jones Arena at the University of Virginia. Principal Steve Duethman of Ellerbe Becket’s renowned sports practice is the source for an extensive Q & A on subjects ranging from seat counts to modern scoreboard design, to sightlines and more.

On the challenge of designing on the historically significant Jeffersonian UVA campus, Duethman says: “You want to borrow from the vocabulary and keep that context in the new facilities you create, but you don’t want to go overboard. I think we’ve done that pretty well.” To read the entire Q & A, click here and then click on “A Vision of the Future”

An innovator since its founding in 1909, Ellerbe Becket is a leader in architecture, interiors, engineering and the construction industry with office locations worldwide.

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