The Rawlings Experience in St. Louis is a finalist in the 2025 ICSC Global Design & Development Awards, in the Tenants in a Retail Environment, Tenants Over 10,000-sf category. 

The awards honor and recognize the best international design and development trends in retail and tenant design.  

The Rawlings Experience is an immersive and retail experience at the Rawlings headquarters location. The 138-year-old company is the official ball, bat, and glove provider of Major League Baseball, and produces baseball gloves, bats, protective gear, apparel, and customized products for the public. The free attraction offers visitors a place to learn more about the company’s history, see memorabilia, meet players, visit the Rawlings Glove Vault, try out gear, and take test swings in a simulator. It opened April 2024. 

IMEG provided structural engineering design services for the renovation of the two-level existing retail space, including a monumental stair and elevator addition. We worked with the building owner, PARIC, Rawlings, and the sculptor TivoliToo to design and construct a 35-foot tall glove weighing 35,000 pounds that sits on the building’s roof. It is comprised of a structural steel skeleton, designed by the sculptor’s team, foam, and fiberglass shell and took 2 ½ years of coordination and design to complete.

We designed the structural steel platform for the glove to sit on at the top of the building, provided peer review of the sculpture skeleton calculations, did a load study on the existing building, designed lightning protection, and designed the crane lift cage that transported the glove from the ground up to the top of the building. 

Watch a video of the ball glove artwork being installed on the roof.

Winners will be announced at the ICSC+CENTERBUILD conference on Dec. 4.