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Key Arena Tickets Information
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle. ---Krist Novoselic
Such is the enthusiasm Seattle creates in the hearts of its visitors. It is a city which attained fame for engineering works and technology boost and that has many other attractions --- amongst them the noteworthy is Key Arena at Seattle Center, located north of downtown Seattle, USA. Key Arena is constructed on the grounds of Seattle Center, which is the site of 1962's Century 21 Exposition, a World's Fair. Key Arena is also one of the first publicly financed arenas, fully supported by earned income from the building. The arena's primary tenants are the Seattle Super Sonics of the National Basketball Association, which also hosted the 1974 NBA All-Star Game.
Opened as Seattle Center Coliseum in 1962, it went through the process of complete rebuilding during the years 1994 and 1995, using the roof trusses. The building's original roofline was used as a guide and some of the original concrete for the main supports that still exists, but almost everything about the arena was brand new and did not require any change. The court was lowered 35 feet below street level to make room for 3,000 more seats. After the rebuild, the Coliseum was renamed Key Arena, as Key Bank purchased the naming rights. The first regular season game that the Seattle Super Sonics played in Key Arena at Seattle Center took place on November 4, 1995, against the Los Angeles Lakers.
It is also used for non-athletic entertainment purposes, such as ice shows, circuses, and concerts. In addition to being the home of the Sonics, it is also home to the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association and the Seattle Thunderbirds which is a junior hockey team in the Western Hockey League. The Thunderbirds hosted the Memorial Cup here in 1992.
Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.---Luis Barragan
The Coliseum has also been a site of controversy. On January 5, 1986, a game between the Sonics and the Phoenix Suns was rained out on account of a leaky roof. Several seasons before in 1972, Spencer Haywood injured himself after slipping in a water puddle on court as a result of the leaky roof. He would later sue the City of Seattle and as a result gained the handsome amount of $55,000. For several seasons especially from 1980-1985, the Sonics used the Kingdome as their home arena, in addition to the Coliseum. This primarily occurred during playoff games as well as several other games with sellout crowds and the exceeding limit of the old coliseum's capacity of around 14,000.
The renovation cost of the city of Seattle was around $74.5 million and that of the Seattle Super Sonics was approximately $21 million. Key Arena is the first publicly financed arena fully supported by earned income from the building. Its seating capacity for basketball games is 17,072, ice hockey games and ice shows 15,177, end-stage concerts, 16,641 and center-stage concerts and boxing 17,459. Risers hold 7,440 on the upper level and up to 7,741 on the lower level, with luxury suites adding another 1,160 seats.
The lack of interest by the city of Seattle in following through on the project, the new owners of the Sonics and Storm made the decision to look outside the city limits for sitting a replacement arena. Renton was chosen as the site for the new King County Events Center. The viability of the arena after the Sonics lease expires in 2010 is under question.
In late 2004 many proposals were debated upon, for expanding Key Arena to nearly twice its current size to accommodate new restaurants, shops, and a practice court with the approximate cost of $220 million. Most proposals harbor the idea of leveling the building or removing the walls and making it an open air facility.
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.--Tadao Ando
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