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Browning Day is an award-winning, nationally recognized architecture, planning, landscape architecture and interior design firm. We help our clients transform a place into a space by communicating with stakeholders and the community, resulting in an artistic, holistic, and integrated design.
Our team of design professionals brings a wealth of expertise, diverse talents, and a collaborative approach to every project, enabling us to elevate the vision of our clients. True collaboration is an art that begins with listening. We reflect and then design places that are impactful, functional, sustainable, and memorable. Together, we bring your vision life.
With every opportunity Browning Day creates possibility. Possibility for cities to prosper, organizations to achieve their desired outcomes and for occupants to enjoy these in exciting and unexpected ways.
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The new Grandstand Court at Cincinnati’s ATP Masters Series facility, the Lindner Family Tennis Center, features 5,000 seats, including 900 box seats. The seats below the concourse level are bleachers on treads, which are sized for conversion to box seats.
A walkway at the top of the raised bleachers connects to the main walkway of Center Court, allowing spectators to move between the two stadiums without interrupting people seated to watch the match. ADA-compliant accommodations and office space are located below the bleachers on the east side.
Browning Day has had the pleasure of working with the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for more than three decades and has performed architecture and planning services for their complex in Mason, Ohio. This includes a 10-acre master plan that doubled the size of the practice courts, playing surfaces and seats, in addition to adding a food court and other hospitality areas.
ASSOCIATION OF TENNIS PROFESSIONALS Mason, Ohio
The Control Tower holds race control and security functions for the oval track and also houses the private hospitality suites for the Hulman-George family, owners of the Speedway. The Media Building is designed for Formula One but also meets the needs of the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s Control Tower and support buildings/spaces represent some of the United States’ most sophisticated facilities dedicated to the sport of auto racing.
Gate 1 Plaza, which is part of Project 100, creates fanfocused experiences and entertainment options to further establish the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as an iconic sports and entertainment facility as well as “The Greatest Race Course in the World.”
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Speedway, Indiana
In 2016, Browning Day continued its 20-year relationship with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway by participating in Project 100. It is a major capital improvement initiative titled after the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s plan to conclude the project in alignment with the 100th Running of the Indianapolis 500.
Browning Day was one architecture firm that primarily designed portions of the interior, including the private suites, the Colts store, exhibit hall and meeting rooms, auxiliary locker rooms, offices for first aid, security, concessionaire and administrative staff, reflected ceiling plans throughout and door schedules (there are more than 1,100 doors) for the Lucas Oil Stadium.
The firm was the Associate Architect who partnered with HKS Architects from Dallas.
Lucas Oil Stadium
Browning Day also developed the Pedestrian Connector between the Stadium and the Convention Center.
Indianapolis, Indiana
By analyzing multiple sites for development and studying a variety of architectural aesthetics to provide an overall look and feel of what Eleven Park could be, Browning Day took on the challenge of the long-term plan that would benefit players, spectators and the community. Park plans include a 20,000 seat multi-purpose stadium, 15,000 square feet of office space, 100,000 square feet of retail space, 600 apartment units, a 200-room boutique hotel, onsite parking garage, surface spaces and an outdoor stadium plaza. While providing Indy’s professional soccer team a home field, Eleven Park has also been designed with year-round advantages in mind that will enhance the sports experience during the season, and provide a unique, functional space for the community in the offseason.
Eleven Park
INDY ELEVEN SOCCER Indianapolis, Indiana
Once a site is chosen, Eleven Park will become a destination district in Indianapolis, offering multiple experiences and a matchless place the Eleven and their fans can call home.
Since 2013, the Indy Eleven has been lighting up the field and the imaginations of fans all across the city and now is in need of a permanent home. For long-term planning and design collaboration, the Indy Eleven teamed up with Browning Day.
Browning Day served as Associate Architect on the original project in 1996. Since then, the firm has provided architectural services for the owner for numerous projects including adding the “Cove” a food and beverage amenity space on the left field line, upgrades to the suites, several expanded amenity spaces, back-ofthe-house, and ticketing improvements.
Victory Field Ballpark INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS Indianapolis, Indiana
Victory Field, described as the “Best AAA ballpark in America,” is a great addition to the growing skyline of Indianapolis. The ballpark has 13,000 fixed seats, 2,000 grass berm seats and 27 luxury suites. Also included are a press box and media facilities, administrative offices for the Indians, home and visiting team lockers, and concession and maintenance facilities. The stadium stands on 13.9 acres of what was a neglected corner of downtown Indianapolis but is now a lush hub of activity. A natural grass field system is incorporated in the asymmetrical ballpark. The field also accommodates high school, collegiate and major league exhibition baseball.
The Ken Byers Tennis Center replaced an existing tennis complex on the campus of Georgia Institute of Technology. The site components included six competition courts, four practice courts and an indoor tennis center with six practice courts. The competition courts have spectator seating on the south base line to accommodate 500 fixed seats. Natural turf berm seating were added at the ends of the courts for lawn seating.
Ken Byers Tennis Center
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Atlanta, Georgia
The indoor tennis center as constructed with a pre-engineered metal building that was architecturally treated to respond in kind to its context and other campus facilities. Connected to the indoor practice courts are locker rooms for both men’s and women’s teams, training rooms for the athletes, spectator seating on the upper level that overlooks the practice courts, a team lounge and coach’s offices. An upper level lobby within the indoor practice center provides views out over a entry plaza that affords views of the competition courts.
Browning Day provided sports design services to Woolpert.
IUPUI Indianapolis, Indiana
Theworld.design of the space and the close proximity of the spectators to the competition create a venue for an athlete’s best performance. Up to 4,500 spectators can be accommodated by a combination of chair and bench seating.
The 220,000-square-foot complex contains three pools, including a 50-meter competition pool, a 50-meter instructional pool and a diving well. Its depth ranging from 9 to 10 feet, the competitive pool ranks as one of the fastest in the
This facility served as host for the 1982 Sports Festival, the 1987 Pan American Games and 11 Olympic Team Trials in swimming and diving.
Designed by Browning Day and completed in 1982, the Indiana University Natatorium set the standard for competitive aquatic facilities in the United States.
Indiana University Natatorium
Highlights include stadium seating, locker rooms, indoor and outdoor hitting cages, turf fields, an 1,800 square foot press box, a scoreboard, sports lighting and sound systems, and two hospitality suites. The complex also features ample parking, entry plazas, picnic areas, concessions and restrooms for fans.
The design uses an “open” concourse stadium concept that seats up to 2,500 people, and allows spectators to still feel engaged in the ongoing game from hospitality and concessions areas.
Browning Day designed a baseball venue for Indiana University with 100 percent artificial turf.
The stadium is located on the north edge of IU’s athletic campus near the 45/46 Bypass.
Browning Day was responsible for programming, design, and master planning for the stadium.
Bart Kaufman Baseball Stadium INDIANA Bloomington,UNIVERSITYIndiana
The Ralph Wright Natatorium project is a competitive and recreational facility on the University of Louisville campus at Cardinal Park. The facility is designed to accommodate the University’s athletic swimming and diving programs as well as recreational use by students, faculty and the public.
The pool area has permanent bleacher seating with bench seats. Locker areas are provided for team and public use.
It features a fully equipped 50-meter competition swimming and diving pool with moveable bulkheads, a stainless steel gutter and a sloped floor that starts at 4 feet 6 inches and inclines to a maximum depth of 18 feet. The diving end has a multilevel diving tower with platforms at 5, 7.5 and 10 meters. There is also two 1-meter springboards on concrete pads, and two 3-meter springboards on a concrete platform.
Ralph Wright Natatorium
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE Louisville, Kentucky
Browning Day also completed a new entrance to the complex, renovations and additions to the media areas and a new entrance lobby.
An additional phase expanded the Football Coaching offices and team meeting area.
The strength room was expanded by 6,000 square feet. It’s new layout facilitates an efficient flow of users through each lifting session. The 11,000-square-foot, multi-use pavilion was designed to accommodate 500 seated guests.
Training Facility Expansion
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS Indianapolis, Indiana
This long-term phased project involves the expansion of the Colts’ training and locker rooms, strength room and the multi-use pavilion.
The A/V system features a digitally controlled theater, two retractable 12-foot video screens and an elevated control booth. For additional space, the pavilion opens to an outdoor patio adjacent to the Colts’ practice fields.
This urban YMCA is a part of a large development called CityWay that includes a hotel, retail, restaurants, and residences. The new YMCA provides the health and fitness components to round out the neighborhood. The YMCA site’s proximity to local business and industry allows it to be a hub of activity.
The YMCA building houses community-service facilities, as well as a medical office and retail food service tenant space. The internal circulation patterns within the first floor of the YMCA uses mid-block connectors, so patrons can easily access neighboring retail and residential services.
YMCA OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis, Indiana
Several elevated, outdoor terraces and greenplanted roofs complement the adjacent streetlevel park and pedestrian green spaces.
The YMCA provides its members a lap pool, a recreational pool, multiple basketball courts, an elevated jogging track, a large fitness area that overlooks the adjacent hotel plaza, multipurpose classrooms, yoga and cycling rooms, teen and family centers, child watch, and beginner-fitness areas.
Irsay Family YMCA at C ityWay
The landscaped areas and facilities create a front lawn to the University. Key elements include a women’s softball stadium, 20,000- square-foot support facility, picnic pavilion, competition soccer field, 400 meter running track, field event area, cardio path, sand volleyball courts, playground, indoor and outdoor tennis center, field hockey stadium and natatorium.
Browning Day provided master planning and programming.
Cardinal Park Master Plan
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE Louisville, Kentucky
This sports and recreational facility is designed to serve students, athletes, staff and the surrounding community. Cardinal Park places the University of Louisville within the top 10 percent of colleges and universities in the United States for total athletic facilities, and its facilities for female student athletes are ranked in the top 5 percent.
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