The new Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, is more than a basketball arena to the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, it is the team’s home away from home. The visually striking 1.1 million-square-foot arena used exclusively for basketball and concerts opened in August 2024 and is the new benchmark for global arena design and engineering.
Intuit Dome’s oblong shape is due to the Clippers’ desire to have an all-encompassing facility—the arena’s seating bowl and basketball court, administrative offices, practice and training facilities as well as the critical infrastructure to ensure the arena is carbon-neutral are all located within the structure’s footprint.
The LEED Platinum structure is completely powered by 2 MW of photovoltaic solar panels on the roof that provide 11 MW of power to batteries and related equipment housed in a central utility plant inside the structure. There is enough on-site energy storage to power a basketball game or concert while generating no new greenhouse gas emissions.
Because Intuit Dome is designed to exclusively host basketball games and concerts, it provides an intimate seating bowl for more than 18,000 fans and positions them up to 45 feet closer to the action on the court or the stage compared to traditional multi-use—i.e., hockey included—arena design.
Intuit Dome has eight distinct levels: two below grade, five levels above grade, and the main concourse at grade. The arena event level is founded at 32 feet below natural grade, and the top of the shell structure is 121 feet above natural grade.
In total, Intuit Dome is approximately 1,250,000 gross square feet and includes 965,000 square feet of elevated floor structure as well as 277,000 square feet of roof shell surface area, much larger than the typical arenas previously constructed.