Editing Progressive Field (section)

==Design==
[[File:Cleveland Guardians vs. Tampa Bay Rays 2022 Wild Card Playoffs (52416822667).jpg|thumb|right|Progressive Field during the [[2022 American League Wild Card Series]]]]
The ballpark was designed by [[Populous (company)|Populous]], which was then a division of [[Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum]] (HOK) known as HOK Sport. HOK designed it as the second [[Baseball park#Retro-classic ballparks|retro-style]] and first [[Baseball park#Retro-modern ballparks|retro-modern ballpark]],<ref name="retro modern">{{cite web|title=Top 30 MLB Stadiums|url=http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/03/power-ranking-mlb-stadiums-0|publisher=Jeremy Bergman|date=March 28, 2012|access-date=July 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714160356/http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/03/power-ranking-mlb-stadiums-0|archive-date=July 14, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> with asymmetrical fences of varying heights, a smaller upper deck, and stepped tiers. It is similar to HOK's [[Oriole Park at Camden Yards]] in Baltimore, which opened two years earlier and was the first retro-style ballpark. The ballpark was sited to give a favorable view of Cleveland's downtown skyline. The structural engineering was done by a Cleveland company, [[Osborn Engineering]], which helped design [[League Park]], [[Cleveland Stadium|Cleveland Municipal Stadium]], [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|"Old" Yankee Stadium]] and [[Fenway Park]].<ref name="Osborn">{{cite web|title=Portfolio|url=http://www.osborn-eng.com/Portfolio.aspx|publisher=Osborn Engineering|access-date=July 11, 2012|archive-date=February 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229134736/http://www.osborn-eng.com/Portfolio.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was designed to blend in with the city of Cleveland with its exposed steel design and the vertical light towers  that match the smoke stacks of Cleveland's industrial zone.<ref name="Ballparks of Baseball">{{cite web |title=Progressive Field at Ballparks of Baseball|url=http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/al/ProgressiveField.htm|publisher=Ballparks of Baseball|access-date=February 4, 2013}}</ref>