Details
- Size: 960,000 square feet
- Completion Date: 1999
Team
- Architect: NBBJ
- Contractor: PCL Construction Services
The Crypto.com Arena is a 960,000 square foot state-of-the-art sports and entertainment complex that serves as the home of the Kings NHL hockey team, both the Lakers and Clippers NBA basketball teams, and the WNBA’s Sparks women’s professional basketball team. The facility features 160 luxury suites, 2,500 premier level seats, 5 concourse levels, restaurants, broadcast facilities, locker rooms, offices and other amenities that allow Crypto.com Arena to be the first venue to host three professional sports seasons simultaneously.
The facility is unique by nature for its three levels of suites – an optimum arrangement for the required 160 suites. A two-level plan was considered, but it would have required placing suites entirely around the arena. The three-level plan allowed the Arena Club restaurant to have views into the arena bowl, and it also gives all regular suites a view of the performers at end-stage events. Ancillary functions, including concessions and restrooms, envelope the perimeter of the bowl. The lobbies are pulled out from the remainder of the building, and are highlighted by sloped, curved glazing.
The Crypto.com Arena is a nearly circular-in-plan superstructure, with a 1,200-ft circumference, flanked on opposite sides by entrance saddlebags that contain stairwells, mechanical rooms and more.
In order to meet the challenges of complicated geometry as well as meet complicated seismic requirements, a composite precast and cast-in-place structural system was selected which allowed for concurrent concrete operations both onsite and off-site.
The lateral force resisting system utilizes four concrete shear walls up to 175-ft long and 160-ft tall, one in each quadrant of the bowl with precast concrete columns located between the walls along the circle.
Six complete cast-in-place ring beams, one at each floor, tie the shear walls and columns together to satisfy deformation compatibility requirements. Ten radial cast-in-place shear walls, as long as 50 feet, complete the lateral load-resisting system. The combination of precast raker beams, precast seats, full height precast columns, and cast-in-place concrete for the structure was geared toward speed of construction.
The $375 million facility, originally planned as a 24-month construction schedule, was completed in only 18 months due to the collaborative effort put forth by the contractor, structural engineer and architect.
