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Overview

Located in historic Pier 59, this complex tenant improvement brings the Aquarium’s educational mission to life: “Inspiring conservation of our marine environment.” Flexible and welcoming, the expansion provides a prominent, year round setting for visitors and events seeking a quintessential Pacific Northwest experience. A dramatic double-height Great Hall for daytime exhibits and evening events is anchored by a 140,000 gallon exhibit called Window on Washington Waters designed by BIOS, LLC, which highlights native aquatic species from the Northwest coast. The new space features natural ventilation, daylight harvesting, and a raised access floor for program flexibility.

News

• Seattle Aquarium shows off new views by Haley Edwards, Seattle Times, June 15, 2007 – The countertops and handrails in the new cafe are made from the old wood that was salvaged from the east end of Pier 59.
• Short Trips: Renovated Seattle Aquarium offers an outing with lots of depth by Gordy Holt, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 16, 2008 – Just inside […] is the new Great Hall, a vast meeting place for lectures and social events. It lies beneath a tangle of heavy roof timbers — part of a disciplined redo of historic Pier 59 — and at one end offers a 20-by-40-foot, 120,000-gallon window into The Deep.
• Fished In: The Seattle Aquarium by Peter Rothbart, Seattle.net – Bearing the felicitous acronym WoWW, the window highlights a mélange of local marine wildlife inside a gargantuan 20’ by 40’ showcase and fittingly augments the Aquarium’s “wow” factor.