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.....

Founded by comedian Dave Dennison and his wife Angela, Laughs Comedy Club has been a fixture of Seattle's University District comedy scene for more than two decades. Dave, a UCLA and Cal Poly graduate in restaurant and travel management, brought experience from a string of comedy clubs and restaurants in California and Utah before entering Seattle's International Comedy Competition in 1997. He met Angela at an open-mic night at Kirkland's Pegasus Pizza in 2002, and the partnership grew into one .....

The land was donated in the 1880s for public use forever, the first hall was built with a saloonkeeper's bequest, and the current one was funded by four sons honouring their mother. Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, at 321 Mercer Street on the Seattle Center campus, is the Pacific Northwest's premier performing arts house. The site has been reinvented three times: the 1928 Civic Auditorium - the House that Suds Built, after James Osborne's 20,000-dollar gift - was rebuilt into the Seattle Opera House f.....

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.....

Before it was Seattle's largest indoor-outdoor music venue, the building washed diapers - a service factory in Fremont that the owners cheerfully cite as the source of the venue's character. Nectar Lounge, at 412 North 36th Street in the self-declared Center of the Universe, was handmade into a venue in 2004. The layout is the differentiator: garage-style walls open the main showroom onto a covered outdoor patio with fire pits and stage views, an upstairs mezzanine overlooks the stage with real.....

Stained-glass windows of the sea god still watch the crowd from the walls - nautical decor from 1921 that survived the room's conversion from silent-movie palace to rock venue. The Neptune Theatre, at 1303 NE 45th Street in Seattle's University District, opened on 16 November 1921 with the silent film Serenade. The theatre is the last of its kind: designed by Henderson Ryan for the Puritan Theatre Company, the U-Neptune was one of five neighbourhood houses built in the district during the silen.....

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.....