Designed for artist and fan experience in every respect, the RAC Arena is super accessible including for people with limited mobility or hidden disabilities. The architecture makes wayfinding clear: getting from the entry to your seat or finding friends is intuitive, taking you through generous concourses, oversized stair landings with places to meet up, and ample bars and conveniences. It’s a destination for a good night out whose immediate success activated that edge of the city and catalysed its redevelopment.

As much a theatre as a stadium, its acoustic design makes it a leading international concert venue, drawing massive crowds for top-tier artists and acts. The retractable roof opens in seven minutes, flooding centre court with natural light for tennis’s annual United Cup. Scaling from 3,000 seats to 15,500, it’s one of the most genuinely flexible configurations in Australia.

The venue’s postmodern form comes from two sources: the 12-sided Round House in Fremantle (WA's oldest building) and the Eternity puzzle: 209 irregular pieces over which our team pored to find the strongest resemblance to WA icons – a sailing boat, a cockatoo, the geographic outline of Rottnest Island. The arrangement of selected pieces generates the arena's jaunty, angular form and character. The blue of the front entrance (the exact shade French artist Yves Klein mixed for his iconic 1961 Blue Monochrome) is the colour of the Western Australian sky.