Space Needle in its main facility to 159 meters away from the tourist level, such as Sky City restaurants and boutique shops. Standing in the tower, not only can see the whole landscape of downtown Seattle, you can also see the Olympic Mountains, Cascade Mountains, Mount Rainier, according to Li Yate Bay and its nearby islands. Space Needle with the area than many buildings are still short, but Seattle’s photos, which often appear in a prominent position. This is because the Space Needle to leave these groups of buildings a kilometer, when the photographer taking a picture, the Space Needle in front of those buildings, it is to see off high buildings than any other opinions (usually photos are from the north to the south of the shadow, it would affect the Space Needle, downtown and Mount Rainier a). Many first time visitors to personally go to Seattle Space Needle tower are very surprised, because this 60-storey building is really not too high, and also from the town center, in the top of the tower to see the landscape is very general. Visitors can take a speed of 16 km of lift on the top of the tower, takes about 43 seconds, sometimes because people have to line up to visit for about an hour before entering.

To Seattle, had never visited the Space Needle, as in Paris, I never looked like disappointment Eiffel Tower, the Space Needle tower built from 1959 had to start with. This unusual shape is the president of Western International Hotel Edward Carlson for the 1962 World’s Fair designed to focus on construction, architectural style inspiration from Germany’s Stuttgart Gata derived , and Carlson was a draft of the building with hand-painted on a napkin in the coffee shop. Space Needle at the time of the initial design and construction experience a lot of bottlenecks, but the last time in 1961 (that is, before the opening of World Expo 13 months) before finalizing the construction site, and bought a 120 ft. by 120 ft. land.

Space Needle tower design
Is only after a very long discussion finalized. There are two main design concept, the first designed by the World Expo exhibitors Edward (Edward Carlson) to come out, the balloon is about a great link with the ground; and the second design was the architect John (John Graham ) of the “UFO.” Although the design of Edward and John have won praise, but the empty needle is in fact the final tower Hill & Knowlton (Victor Steinbrueck) design. Space Needle is designed to withstand strong earthquakes, when the earthquake intensity is less than 9, the tower structure, there will be no problem, but one occurred in 1965, 6.8 earthquake shaking the tower was not even the toilet water is leak out. In addition, the symbol of Seattle – Space Needle Space Needle can withstand strong winds, ten kilometers per hour wind will only make the tower shake 16 mm.

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