Seattle spent 1.15 billion dollars digging a brand-new arena out of the ground beneath a roof it refused to move. Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center opened on 19 October 2021 with a Foo Fighters and Death Cab for Cutie benefit concert, three days before Coldplay played the official ribbon-cutting and four before the expansion Seattle Kraken skated their first NHL home game. The building it replaced had opened on 21 April 1962 as architect Paul Thiry's Washington State Pavilion for the Centur.....

The last temporary building from the 1962 World's Fair stood here for forty years before Seattle finally replaced it with something built to stay. Fisher Pavilion, at 305 Harrison Street on the Seattle Center campus, opened in September 2002 on the site of the old Flag Pavilion - an 11.2-million-dollar hall designed by The Miller/Hull Partnership and dug 22 feet into a hillside so that its roof doubles as a public plaza. The design is quietly radical: rather than occupy the landscape, the build.....

One mayoral candidate ran on a promise to tear the rusting towers down; instead they became one of the most influential park designs of the twentieth century. Gas Works Park, at 2101 North Northlake Way on a promontory jutting into Lake Union, preserves the remnants of the last coal gasification plant in the United States - and turned a toxic industrial ruin into Seattle's most distinctive public space. The Seattle Gas Light Company plant manufactured the city's gas from 1906 to 1956, first fro.....

They call it the greatest setting in college football, and the claim is hard to argue: the open end of the horseshoe frames Lake Washington and the Cascades, and fans arrive for games by boat. Husky Stadium, at 3800 Montlake Boulevard NE on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, opened on 27 November 1920 and today seats 70,083 - the largest stadium in the Pacific Northwest. Students built it in a real sense: a plaque drive raised the seed money, and the 30,000-seat bowl was finished 1.....

In the historic Ballard neighbourhood of north-west Seattle, the National Nordic Museum is the largest museum in North America dedicated to the heritage, culture and contemporary contributions of the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The museum opened in May 2018 in a striking new 57,000-square-foot building designed by the Seattle-based Mithun architecture firm, replacing an earlier museum dating back to 1980 housed in a converted elementary school down the st.....

In the heart of the Seattle Center cultural campus directly beneath the iconic Space Needle, the Pacific Science Center is one of the most heavily visited science museums on the West Coast and a defining piece of mid-century modernist architecture in the Pacific Northwest. The complex opened in April 1962 as the United States Science Pavilion of the Century 21 Exposition (the Seattle World's Fair), designed by the celebrated Seattle-born architect Minoru Yamasaki (later best known for the origin.....

In the heart of the Seattle Center cultural campus just north of downtown Seattle, the Space Needle is the iconic landmark of the Pacific Northwest and one of the most recognisable observation towers in the world. The 605-foot tower opened on 21 April 1962 as the centrepiece of the Century 21 Exposition (the Seattle World's Fair), designed by the Seattle-born architect John Graham Jr. and his colleague Victor Steinbrueck, with the dramatic flying-saucer-shaped top deliberately styled to evoke th.....