Sky High Secrets: Top 8 Surprising Fun Facts About the Space Needle You Need to Know

1. Pane-staking Makeover

Talk about a "pane-staking" renovation: Sky City, the Space Needle's restaurant, closed its doors for a nine-month, 360-degree makeover, during which it transformed into a dazzling, floor-to-ceiling glass restaurant offering even more mesmerizing views of Seattle's skyline.
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2. Super Strength Glass Power

Hold onto your crystal balls, folks, the Space Needle's got some serious glass power: Its extensively tested and fortified glass structure has a strength capacity up to five times the code requirements, making it sturdier, safer, and more reliable than the previous design and even standard floors in Seattle office buildings!
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3. Express Sky Rides

Forget the stairway to heaven, the Space Needle has a lightning-fast express track to the skies that even Led Zeppelin would be envious of: equipped with 3 elevators that race at up to 10 mph, visitors can zoom straight to the top of this 605-feet-tall landmark in just 43 seconds, without even breaking a sweat on any of its 848 steps!
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4. Superhero Speed Construction

Like a 1960s superhero with tight deadlines, the Space Needle donned its speed-building cape and raced against the clock to become the World's Fair champion in just over a year: Dubbed the "400 Day Wonder", it features a lightning-fast elevator (installed just in time) and stands proudly on a mere 120 square feet of land, with a 30-foot-deep concrete foundation weighing 5,850 pounds and boasting 250 tons of reinforcing rebar steel for heroic stability.
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5. SkyCity's Circular Dining

Ever felt like you were going 'round in circles while dining? At the Space Needle, they've made it an art form: The SkyCity restaurant completes a full rotation in precisely forty-seven minutes, offering patrons a constantly evolving panorama of Seattle's skyline and the nearby mountain ranges – but don't worry, on gusty days, they keep things breezy by limiting the speed to 5 mph for everyone's safety.
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6. Alien-Proof Engineering

The aliens have landed, and they've brought impressive structural design skills: The Space Needle in Seattle is engineered to withstand winds up to 200 mph, earthquakes of a 9.0 magnitude, and stands at 605 ft tall – once the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. Zoom up to the 520 ft high observation deck in a brisk 41 seconds via one of three elevators to enjoy breathtaking views of the city's skyline and surrounding mountains, all courtesy of this futuristic Seattle landmark that gained formal recognition in 1999.
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7. Flintstones Meet Futurism

If you've ever wanted to feel like Fred Flintstone zooming around in his foot-powered car, but with a view that's out of this world, we've got just the thing for you: The Space Needle's 2018 renovation introduced a rotating glass floor at the 500-foot level, complete with Skyrisers, which are angled glass benches that let you lean out over the city, and custom-designed accessibility lifts, all while achieving LEED Gold Certification. Yabba-dabba-doo meets 21st-century innovation!
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8. Lovechild of Iconic Towers

If the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower had a torrid love affair, the result might be the Space Needle, a sleek and curvaceous, yet delightfully awkward, lovechild of cutting-edge design and mid-century American optimism: Standing tall at 604 feet, the Space Needle was built for the Century 21 Exposition in 1962, and although it once held the title of one of the tallest observation towers in the US, it now sits at a respectable second place, trumped only by the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas, which reaches up to 1,149 feet.
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