VERTIGO viewing platform
The latest addition to the award-winning stadium is a 42-metre-high viewing platform dubbed VERTIGO, opened in early 2022.
The universally accessible platform is designed so everyone can enjoy a unique experience walking beyond the edge of the stadium roof. Our aim was to physically express the pure joy and excitement of seeing your team competing.
Located on the stadium’s western side, the platform extends out five metres beyond the roof. Direct lift access ensures everyone can reach this one-of-a-kind attraction.
Vertigo also features a lean-out experience allowing visitors to see out over the field of play as well as the potential for operator-led activities like abseiling.
Stadium features
Stadium
- Multiple seating configurations for different events – from 60,000 up to 70,000 people
- 450 wheelchair and 327 enhanced amenity seats
- More than 70 food and beverage options
- Façade reflecting state’s unique geology by day and home team colours by night
- State-of-the-art LED lighting system
- More than 1,000 screens for uninterrupted coverage
- Two 340sqm ‘super screens’
- First all-LED stadium in world
Public spaces
- Open 365 days a year – for all kinds of activities and events
- Covered community arbour links new Stadium Station to Swan River
- More than 150 ancestral homes of Indigenous language communities recognised in artwork throughout stadium and parklands
- Children’s playgrounds with integrated indigenous artwork
Network of walking and cycle tracks plus more than 600 bike racks - 1,500-seat waterfront function room
- A public bar and café open for event and for non-event day functions
Awards
- 2019 Stadium Awards - Australia’s Best Stadium
- 2019 Stadium Awards - Best AFL Stadium
- 2019 Stadium Awards - Best Major Stadium
- 2019 Prix Versailles – World Title – Sports
- 2019 International Olympic Committee, International Paralympic Committee, International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IOC IPC IAKS) Architecture Prizes – Silver (IOC IAKS) and Distinction (IPC IAKS)
2019 Good Design Award – Gold Winner – Architectural Design: Commercial and Residential - 2019 Planning Institute of Australia Awards – Winner – From Plan to Place
- 2018 The Stadium Business Design and Development Awards – Project of the Year
- 2018 Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards – National Award – Public Architecture
- 2018 Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards - The COLORBOND® Award for Steel Architecture
- 2018 Australian Institute of Architects (WA) Awards – George Temple Poole Award
- 2018 Australian Institute of Architects (WA) Awards – Colourbond Steel Award
- 2018 Australian Institute of Architects (WA) Awards – Jeffrey Howlett Award for Public Architecture
- 2018 Australian Institute of Architects (WA) Awards – Wallace Greenham Award for Sustainable Architecture