The Marlins’ New Home
On April 4, the Miami Marlins’ season opener will occur on the Bermuda grass of the team’s brand-new 37,000-seat stadium. According to designer Greg Sherlock, it’s a fitting tribute to Miami’s culture. “The city is in its DNA,” he says. La Playa, a South Beach–esque private pool behind the left-field wall, gives fans a place to sit, soak, and search for home-run balls; a pair of 24-foot, 450-gallon aquariums, filled with Floridian aquatic life, flank home plate; an 8,300-ton retractable roof closes to prevent rain delays; and, in case you forget where you are, a 60-foot moving glass wall near left field offers a Miami skyline view.