Home to the University of Washington Huskies basketball and volleyball programmes, Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion is a historic college sports arena on the university's campus beside Lake Washington. Opened in 1927 and named for the long-serving athletics director and coach Clarence Hec Edmundson, the pavilion is one of the oldest continuously used venues of its kind in the United States and a landmark of Seattle college sport. The arena seats around ten thousand spectators and.....

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 .....

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.....

The venue borrowed its name from the high-voltage station across the street, and the underground current stuck. Substation at 645 NW 45th Street opened in spring 2015 in the industrial seam between Ballard and Fremont, founded by Dave West, Ken Wallace and Jeremy Rudo as a DIY-spirited club with a proper bar and better sound than its warehouse aesthetic suggests. The building grew into a compound: the owners eventually took the whole block-long structure, running two showrooms - the 200-capacit.....

The name came from a five-by-eight-foot oil painting of a tractor hanging over the bar - and the bar it named became the Northwest's Americana headquarters. The Tractor Tavern at 5213 Ballard Avenue NW in Seattle occupies a 1902 building that once held a Scandinavian dance hall and the New Melody Tavern. Owner Dan Cowan took the room over in August 1993 - briefly as the Old Town Music Hall - and renamed it in 1994 after bartender Dan Amell's painting, on a Ballard Avenue then so desolate that, .....

In the bustling Phinney Ridge neighbourhood about four miles north of downtown Seattle, the Woodland Park Zoo is one of the most architecturally and ecologically progressive zoos in the United States. The 92-acre zoo traces its origins to 1899, when the small private estate of the Seattle real-estate developer Guy Phinney was acquired by the city following Phinney's death and converted into a public park, with a small collection of donated animals forming the original zoo around the same time. .....