San Mamés wins another international prize

San Mamés stadium has been awarded at the World Design Awards 2020, annual awards granted by the prestigious entity The Architecture Community. “The Cathedral” has achieved the highest distinction in the Sports and Recreational Facilities category, one of the 39 that make up these awards.

This recognition joins those previously achieved by the stadium: the one achieved in 2015 at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore as the best sports building in the world of new construction or the  world’s best soccer stadium of the year in the awards of the World Football Summit 2017.

The jury for the World Design Awards 2020 consisted of Sven Shockey (SmithGroup), Esra Akcan (Cornell Institute for European Studies), Zain Abuseir (University of Michigan), Randy Guillot FAIA (Director of Design at Gensler), Simon Twose, George Baird and Jan Smitheram (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Edwin Zawadzki (Pratt Institute, New York) and David Ling (founder of David Ling Architects).