Designed by Seattle-based firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol,[2] the plaza serves as an entry to McCaw Hall[3] and connects Mercer Street to inner Seattle Center.

[4] Kreielsheimer Promenade has been described by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as "an appealing indoor garden on the ground level and a series of towering metal scrims overhead onto which fields of color [are] projected, primarily on performance nights".

[5] The American Institute of Architects describes the promenade as a "subtly undulating, brightly lighted open space between two campus buildings".

[11][12] The "three-dimensional environmental installation" has been used for special occasions; for example, teal lighting was used during September 2013 to commemorate National Ovarian Cancer Awareness month.

[15] Inside McCaw Hall, at the promenade's north end, the sculpture An Equal and Opposite Reaction by Sarah Szewith displays found objects over a staircase.