Benaroya Hall is home to world-class art, signature structure design and The Garden of Remembrance.
The Garden of Remembrance is an official state memorial dedicated to the more than 8,000 Washington State citizens who have given their lives in the service of our country since 1941, including those who served in World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War and post-9/11 conflicts. Every year on Memorial Day, families are invited to gather at the garden to honor their fallen loved ones.
The design of Benaroya Hall accommodates three performing halls in a complex that is thoroughly integrated into downtown Seattle. Occupying an entire city block at the very core of the city, the development celebrates the vital role of performance events while maintaining the continuity of commercial life along one avenue and providing a much-needed public space, in the form of a terraced garden, along another.
Internationally acclaimed artist Robert Rauschenberg created a nine-panel, 12-foot-high mural for Benaroya Hall using the medium of vegetable dye transfer on polylaminate. This work, titled Echo, was commissioned by longtime Seattle arts patrons Virginia and Bagley Wright and we are honored to be the current home of this internationally recognized art.
Closely identified with the Pacific Northwest, glass artist Dale Chihuly created a new sculpture titled Crystal Cascade for Benaroya Hall. The two "chandeliers," each weighing three tons, are suspended at both ends of The Boeing Company Gallery.
The piece promotes themes such as meeting spaces and finding common ground, and Sackman said she views the mat as a physical representation of “a bridge of sharing.” These concepts arise in a design of cedar bark buttons, painted red and black, that are strategically placed atop the woven mat.
Skytones by Anna Valentina Murch is a dramatic, volume-lighting artwork located in the five 20-by-25-foot niches along the upper level of The Boeing Company Gallery.
The four urns marking the entrance in the Boeing Company Gallery were created by David Ruth.
Erin Shie Palmer designed a unique entrance to the Metro bus tunnel at the plaza level of Benaroya Hall. The work consists of several different elements that work together to modulate the experience of moving between the Hall and the "high-tech" theme of the Metro station.
