CITYPARK wins 2024 Prix Versailles World Title in sports

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - St. Louis CITY SC announced Tuesday that CITYPARK has won the 2024 Prix Versailles World Title in the sports category.

Prix Versailles, established by UNESCO, recognizes the world’s finest contemporary architecture and design in categories such as sports venues, hotels, airports, and museums.

The Prix Versailles World Jury awarded CITYPARK the top World Title honor in the sports venues category at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris.

“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 deg CITYPARK to be a reflection of our city’s most beloved attributes.”

CITYPARK, soon to be called Energizer Park, was designed by HOK and Snow Kreilich Architects to the ownership group’s strategic pillars of connection, mobility, sport, training and experience.

The stadium can house 22,500 fans and anchors the largest urban professional sports campus in the U.S., serving as a new model for Major League Soccer project development. Every seat is within 120 feet of the pitch, which sits 40 feet below street level to maintain an appropriate scale for the district.

“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.”

In its inaugural year, CITYPARK generated more than $168 million in economic impact, with more than 18% of guests coming from outside the region.

HOK and Snow Kreilich Architects accepted the award in person.

For the full list of 2024 winners and honorees in all categories, as well as the World Jury , please click here.

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