SUITE LEVEL 400
The PitchBook Suites
Cantilevered over the seating bowl, 40 private sideline suites accommodate 16 people each. Inspired by a Seattle loft, the 500-square-foot suites feature a bar and kitchen area defined by a porcelain-tile stone backsplash and a sloping wood ceiling angled to a view of the arena.
Located at the southwest and southeast corners of the arena’s PitchBook Suites level, two 35-foot-long interactive flip disc walls utilize bespoke software and depth-sensing cameras to respond to guests’ gestures and movements. This level also features real-time visuals that respond to the action in the arena, all on an innovative display that is highly sustainable. At 7-feet tall and 35-feet wide, the screens bring the action, excitement, and experience of stadium events to the audience, even when they don’t have eyes on the action.
Conceptualized by LAB at Rockwell Group, Rockwell Group’s experience design and technology studio, these interactive walls were created in partnership with PitchBook, SportFive, Climate Pledge Arena and Senovva.
The Moët and Chandon Impérial Lounge
Five intimately scaled rooms frame views of the bowl through broadly arched openings. The all-inclusive private restaurant’s high-end finishes are inspired by upscale interpretations of the traditional outdoor enthusiast’s repertoire: a plaid marble mosaic floor, charred wood walls reminiscent of a campfire and lantern-inspired lighting. Toward the bar, design touches include leather banquette seating and velvet curtains. The side dining rooms are completed with dramatic lighting, oak walls and stone floors. With a total of 7,680 square feet, the lounge provides 299 seats.
AMEX Hall (Food Hall)
The 10,985-square-foot food hall is designed to highlight Seattle’s robust culinary offerings. Bold signage, painted concrete floors and custom murals by local artists add an industrial feel. Five food stalls, including a vintage Airstream trailer, feature wine and whiskey bars, pizza, sandwiches and desserts. Clerestory windows bring daylight and views into the club from the exterior plaza.
TOP MEZZANINE LEVEL 550
Space Needle Lounge (Cocktail Bar and Event Space)
Located on the top level, the 8,380-square-foot lounge offers views of the Space Needle through an over-scaled skylight. The intimate club, providing 114 seats, doubles as an event space and features blue ombré velvet waterfall curtains offset by brass finishes and exposed concrete.
WORLD-CLASS ARENA
Rockwell Group achieved its goal of taking guests on a unique journey, infusing the excitement of live events with the specificity of the Pacific Northwest.
“Rockwell Group has created an unprecedented experience for fans, where they get to be part of the theater and emotion of the action in the arena,” notes Tim Leiweke, CEO of Oak View Group. (Climate Pledge Arena is a public-private partnership between Oak View Group, Seattle Kraken Hockey and Seattle Center. Oak View Group also is the operator.) “From the private suites to the AMEX food hall, we’re inviting our guests to a beautiful world-class arena with daylit spaces inspired by the city that surrounds us.”
PHOTOS: Alex Fradkin
Retrofit Team
PREMIUM SPACES INTERIOR ARCHITECT: Rockwell Group
OWNER: Public-private Partnership between Oak View Group, Seattle Kraken Hockey and Seattle Center
OPERATOR: Oak View Group
PROJECT MANAGER: CAA ICON
ARCHITECT: Populous
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Mortenson
LIGHTING CONSULTANT: ME Engineers
Materials
Throughout
BLACK AND WHITE PORCELAIN SLABS: Florim
TILE: Alchemy Materials, Daltile, Nemo Tile + Stone, and Design and Direct Source
PAINT: Benjamin Moore
ANTIQUE GLASS MIRROR: Spancraft
OAK WALLCOVERING: Koroseal
Tunnel Club Suites
FROSTED SMOKE MIRROR: Spancraft
TUNNEL PASSAGEWAY MIRRORED STRETCH CEILING SYSTEM: Barrisol
TUNNEL PASSAGEWAY ONE-WAY MIRROR SYSTEM ON CLEAR GLASS: Duggal Visual Solutions
Verizon Lounge
VELVET PANELS: Panaz
FROSTED SMOKE MIRROR: Spancraft
ANTIQUE-BRASS POWDER COAT: Scuffmaster
WALLCOVERING: Maya Romanoff
The Symetra Club and The WaFd Bank Club
FLUTED GLASS: McGrory Glass
OPEN-CELL CEILING PANELS: METALWORKS from Armstrong Ceiling & Wall Solutions
GREEN WALL TILE: Theia Creative Tiles
BRICK VENEER: Brick it
Pitchbook Suites
PORCELAIN STONEWARE SLAB: Florim
WOOD PORCELAIN TILE: Porcelanosa
WALLCOVERING: Maya Romanoff
WALNUT WALLCOVERING: Koroseal
The Moët and Chandon Impérial Lounge
CHARRED TEAK: Indoteak Design
STONE AND MARBLE PLAID TILE: AKDO
RED BAR DIE TILE: NemoTile
ANTIQUE-BRASS POWDER COAT Scuffmaster
BRASS METAL LAMINATE: Chemetal and The October Company
ACCENT STONE: Florim
AMEX Hall
CHEVRON WOOD TILE: Indoteak Design
WHITE SUBWAY TILE: Nemo Tile
Space Needle Lounge
BLUE-STAINED CONCRETE: Globmarble for SureCrete
OMBRE DRAPERY: Opuzen
FROSTED SMOKE MIRROR: Spancraft
ANTIQUE-BRASS POWDER COAT: Scuffmaster
FLOOR TILE: Florim