Press

Selected press, interviews and awards covering Pendulum’s work in ballparks, civic venues and the economics of public assembly. Each entry links to the coverage as published.

Baseballparks.com

• Ballpark of the Year2017

  Dunkin' Park, Hartford, named Ballpark of the Year.

Sports Business Journal

• 2020 Power Players2020

  Jonathan O'Neil Cole named an SBJ Power Player.

• Recession helped put designers on new paths2011

  How the downturn reshaped sports architecture practice.

• $35,000 loge boxes against $150,000 suites2010

  Temporary loge boxes find an audience in the minor leagues.

• A drive-in screen on a minor league ballpark2009

  Breaking Ground on an idea ahead of its time.

USA TODAY Sports Weekly

• Venues game-plan for a safe fan visit2020

  Jonathan O'Neil Cole on how venues were re-planned for distanced crowds.

• Jimmy John's Field

  The Utica, Michigan ballpark featured in Sports Weekly.

• CaroMont Health Park

  Gastonia's ballpark and the FUSE district it anchors.

VenuesNow

• All-Stars Class of 20202020

  Jonathan O'Neil Cole named to the VenuesNow All-Stars.

• All-Stars roundtableOctober 2020

  Event professionals on rebuilding the live industry.

• Digital Sessions, one-on-oneMay 2020

  A long-form interview on the future of public assembly.

• Touchless ballpark design before it was required2020

  Designers discuss post-coronavirus changes.

• Talking PointsJuly 2019

  Jonathan O'Neil Cole on venue economics.

Stadia Magazine

• The New Normal: venues after Covid-19June 2020

  The Final Whistle column.

The Kansas City Star

• Time to take a swing

  Pendulum on Kansas City's ballpark question.

GRAND Magazine

• Painted gloves and a Buck O'Neil portrait

  Baseball time machines, and the art inside them.

Commercial Journal

• Adaptive reuse is the other green

  Sustainable by nature: reuse as the real environmental move.

Startland News

• WyCo Vintage

  The Kansas City fabrication and retail project.

Historic Kansas City

• A Place to Gather

  Seven ways of looking at the Country Club Plaza.

A Sports Fan’s Guide to Route 66

• A Sports Fan's Guide to Route 66

  Jonathan O'Neil Cole quoted; features The Corn Crib, Normal, Illinois.

Podcasts

• Parisians of the Plains

  Jonathan O'Neil Cole in conversation.

Further coverage

• Ballpark key to the Dragons' sellout streak

  By Kyle Nagel, on Day Air Ballpark and the longest sellout streak in sports.

• The architect who worked a night as a ballpark intern

  Back to the Future: a night interning for the Peoria Chiefs.

• Ballpark design for the future: the Small Big Idea

  Why the right-sized ballpark outperforms the large one.