The Space Needle has a 30-foot-deep foundation made with 2,800 yards of concrete and 250 tons of reinforcing steel. The above-ground portion of the Needle weighs an impressive 3,700 tons, but the ...

The Space Needle may not be as tall as American landmarks like the Empire State Building or Chicago’s Willis Tower, but the 605-foot structure has a towering spirit of its own. Washington’s ...

Read more about that here. - The Space Needle was built for $3.5 million with carbon steel called A36, according to the World's Fair media guide. More facts about the Space Needle can be found on ...

Randy Coté, Chief Marketing Officer at Space Needle, joined the John Curley Show to share some fun facts about the Space Needle. Listen to The John Curley Show every weekday at 3pm on KIRO ...

It suits Seattle’s utopianism without taking it too seriously.” Or as the Needle’s Fun Facts page reminds us, “The Space Needle is approximately 1,320 Milky Way candy bars (605 feet ...

She studied the Space Needle with new appreciation, having read how hastily it was built on deadline—its legendary continuous pour involving 467 truckloads of concrete, its frantic dash to haul ...

1999, it was named an official City of Seattle Landmark by the city's Landmark Preservation Board. Read more facts about the Space Needle and the history behind it on the Space Needle's website.

Riding to the top of the Space Needle just got a lot more fun. The Space Needle last Friday opened the world’s only double-deck, floor-to-ceiling glass elevator. Two similar elevators are slated to ...

The whole thing looked pretty terrifying. "They just nuked the f*cking Space Needle," this person said. They just nuked the fucking space needle pic.twitter.com ...

Well, not the needle itself, but the company that owns it. Why? Its logo looks a bit too much like the famous Seattle landmark. Bill Radke talks about the Space Needle's new rotating glass floor ...