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August 29, 2024

Ocean Pavilion opens today with a mission to connect visitors to the global ocean

  • The prominent new building on the Seattle waterfront blows the boxy aquarium archetype out of the water.
    • By EMMA LAPWORTH
    A/E Editor

    Photo by Emma Lapworth [enlarge]
    Portions of Ocean Pavilion’s facade are peeled away, offering glimpses from the public realm into the aquarium and its exhibits.

    Seattle Aquarium opens the long-awaited Ocean Pavilion today, offering the public a chance to come face-to-face with more than 3,500 tropical fish, invertebrates and plants, including endangered Indo-Pacific leopard sharks, rays, reef fish, seahorses, mangroves and corals, in three new habitat exhibits that together make up the largest tropical reef ecosystem in the Pacific Northwest.


     
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