Prix Versailles Honors Hangzhou Stadium as One of “World’s Most Beautiful Sports Venues”
Uniting sweeping, poetic curves and high-performance architecture, Hangzhou Olympic Stadium showcases a lotus petal-inspired design that uses 67% less steel than Beijing Olympic Stadium. Today, it is recognized as one of the “World’s Most Beautiful Sports Venues” by the Prix Versailles—the World Architecture and Design Award at UNESCO—joining a list of 30 distinguished sports project recipients around the world.