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The final design for the new $290 million Penguins arena was approved on Tuesday. The changes by HOK Sport were made after city planners deemed the original design too bland. Groundbreaking for the home that will replace Mellon Arena will occur this Summer, with the intent of having it available for play before the start of the 2010-2011 NHL season. As reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Penguins sought to counter some of the criticism yesterday by unveiling nighttime renderings of the arena that pictured the structure in a more favorable light. One showed the building's centerpiece -- a brightly lit glass atrium running along Washington Place and facing Downtown. Those drawings, Mr. Sawyer said, really tell "the story of the design." "The atrium in the front allows everyone to see the energy and electricity inside the building during events. When you're inside, you get to see the most beautiful city skyscape in the country," he said. "That's really the signature part and it came out today in those renderings." Among the modifications to the design, architect HOK Sport reduced the amount of glass on the Fifth Avenue side of the arena and varied the storefronts to make the proposed spaces more individualized.
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