DESIGN PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Grand opening: The use of glass walls
within a stadium enables any space to
become more open, dynamic and modern
The new home of the NBA’s Golden
State Warriors, the Chase Center, is
nothing less than luxurious. Sitting
on the waterfront of San Francisco’s
Bay Area, the state-of-the-art,
18,000-seat multi-purpose arena opened in
2019 as the team moved from its Oracle
Arena, where they played for 38 years. The
Warriors’ new home has created a more
premium offering of everything from fan
experience down to the materials that were
used during the build.
As part of the Chase Center site, it features
the Gatehouse, a 5,000ft2 building that is
located across from the main arena which
faces an outside plaza and welcomes visitors.
A large staircase winds around the outside of
the building all the way to the top of the
structure. From those steps, fans can watch
live Warriors games shown on the adjacent
big video screen. On the side of the winding
staircase a strip of digital scoreboards display
the results of other NBA games.
As well as retail, it has stadium seating for
up to 250 to sit and observe the activities on
the main plaza, including the NBC Sports Bay
Area pre and postgame shows. To provide a
window to all of this, the Gatehouse features
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an innovative product from local company
NanaWall called cero, which is a minimal
framed sliding glass wall.
The cero sits on the ground floor and is
large, impactful system. The Chase Center’s
cero is a full floor-to-ceiling, six-panel system
that spans 32ft (9.7m) wide. The four central
10.6ft (3.2m) tall panels slide to each side
with recessed top and bottom tracks to
create a grand opening. The large panels and
minimal frame of cero matches the Chase
Center’s design ethos.
Seeing is believing
NanaWall has provided large glass opening
wall systems to many other sports stadia and
arenas, such as the Amway Center, home to
the NBA’s Orlando Magic, which has a folding
panel system installed in its luxury suites to
provide fans with large, open, uninterrupted
viewing of the basketball court below.
Elsewhere, NanaWall’s folding glass wall
systems are helping venues achieve more
sustainability and energy efficiency goals. At
Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, the training
facility for the Arizona Diamondbacks and
Colorado Rockies in Scottsdale, Arizona, the
use of its SL45 folding glass walls blurs
indoors and out while optimizing building
performance. The first LEED Gold-certified
venue selected wide-opening NanaWall SL45
folding systems for the third-tier suites and
press area so they can be completely
retracted during games for optimal viewing
and filming. The training and office areas,
using the same specification, allow athletes
to enjoy the desert air while managers and
coaches in their offices stay connected to
practice outdoors.
To ensure proper enclosure performance,
the NanaWall SL45 systems have carefully
engineered mechanical seals and insulated
glazing. The glass walls provide excellent
thermal control, with energy savings
calculated at 23.5% over baseline.
By combining precision engineering
and design options across more than 25
customizable systems, it offers design
possibilities beyond the conventional for
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