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Meis (not Mies) gets his moment in the sun (chicagotribune)

Dan Meis, the prolific stadium architect who works out of Los Angeles, is
profiled in the current issue of the University of Illinois at Chicago's
alumni magazine.

Meis' projects include Milwaukee's Miller Park and Cincinnati's Paul Brown
Stadium, both of which I reviewed favorably (see the jump). Meis, who
graduated from UIC in 1985, used to work for Chicago architect Helmut Jahn.

Among the things I leraned about Meis in the profile: One is his arms is
adorned with a tattoo of Tatlin's Tower, the never-built Russian
Constructivist monument that, as the writer Edward Leibowitz puts it, "looks
like the Eiffel Tower thrown into a blender."

_July 22, 2001 _

**Home field advantage; **

**With its retractable roof and retro design, Milwaukee's Miller Park is a
natural to lead the new era of baseball architecture**

MILWAUKEE--An astonishing drama occurs every time the Milwaukee Brewers play
in Miller Park, their new baseball stadium here, but it has nothing to do with
pitchers slinging 95 m.p.h. fastballs or outfielders making leaping catches.
Instead, as the theme from "2001: A Space Odyssey" and Strauss waltzes waft
over the PA system, Miller Park's 12,000-ton roof quietly opens and closes
like a giant ...

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