December 3, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
St. Louis City SC News Release
CITYPARK, home of St. Louis CITY SC
(St. Louis City SC)
ST. LOUIS – CITYPARK, home of Major League Soccer’s St. Louis CITY SC, has won the prestigious 2024 Prix Versailles World Title in the sports category.
Established by UNESCO, Prix Versailles recognizes the world’s finest contemporary architecture and design in categories including sports venues, hotels, airports and museums. The Prix Versailles World Jury awarded CITYPARK the top World Title honor in the sports venues category on Monday, Dec. 2 at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris. Earlier this year, CITYPARK was shortlisted for the awards when the stadium was named one of the world’s most beautiful sports venues.
“A critical tenet of St. Louis CITY SC’s mission is to see ourselves on the global stage, an exceptional club and neighbor, and help elevate the world’s view of St. Louis and the transformational role sporting venues can play in the community,” said Lee Broughton, St. Louis CITY SC’s chief brand architect and ownership group member. “It is with a great sense of pride that we thank the Prix Versailles World Jury for this incredible honor and our talented partners, HOK and Snow Kreilich, for their exceptional work in designing CITYPARK to be a reflection of our city’s most beloved attributes.”
Designed by HOK and Snow Kreilich Architects, CITYPARK supports the CITY SC ownership group’s strategic pillars of connection, mobility, sport, training and experience. The 22,500-seat stadium (soon to be called Energizer Park under a new naming rights deal) anchors the largest urban professional sports campus in the U.S. and serves as a new model for Major League Soccer project development. The stadium’s inclusive, transparent design invites all of St. Louis to share in the soccer experience and offers a best-in-class fan experience. A flat portico, elegant canopy and slender columns maximize engagement with the city.
“As an urban stadium, CITY is scaled and is porous to the street creating a more vibrant city and a match that feels like it is embedded in St. Louis,” said Julie Snow, Founding Principal of Snow Kreilich Architects. “While the design was very much about the intensity of the sport, it was equally about the ability to build on the creative energy rising in the city, to come together and generate a new civic spirit shaping its future buildings, and, with its porosity, create a more vibrant city.”
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