ST. LOUIS • The new riverfront football stadium would be more than a site for Sunday games.
Architects imagine an arena with more plazas and gardens than parking lots, with more bridges and bike trails than roadways, with more daily attractions than football games. New stadium designs, revealed publicly for the first time, show a wall of public art, a three-story brew pub, and a 30-foot-wide observation deck that stretches over the Mississippi River flood wall.
“This is what’s so cool,” said Eli Hoisington, design principal with St. Louis-based HOK architects. “There’s a trend where everything is luxury, everything is suites now.