Kinetic Park is an accessible adventure park reconceived from a former skatepark. The pavilion contains a climbing wall, esports room, and pickleball court. Outside there are play towers, hillside slides, and a mirrored-steel roof oculus.

Beloit College Powerhouse is a reused coal plant on the Rock River, now a recreation and wellness center. The brick walls, smokestack, and salvaged turbine machinery remain, with a competition pool, cafe, and suspended running track threaded through into a new translucent field house.

Home of St. Louis CITY SC, Energizer Park anchors the western end of the Gateway Mall on land that once held a freeway off-ramp. Its pitch sits forty feet below grade, drawing every seat close to the action beneath a reflective canopy that frames the Gateway Arch.