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Space Needle

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Disc-Topped Tapered Tower

The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, considered an icon of the city and designated a Seattle landmark. Located at 400 Broad Street in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, it was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew more than 2.3 million visitors.

Facts
Building Type
Observation Tower 1
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States 1
Completed Year
1961 2
Completed Year
1962 1
Height (m)
184 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Tower 1
Connections

Has Building Type

Tower, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Googie Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Wikipedia: Space Needle

Uses Element

Steel, Architectural Materials
Source Wikipedia: Space Needle
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Space Needle
Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 1
    The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States.
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 1 (place clause)
    The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States.
  • Lead paragraph, height sentence
    At 605 ft (184 m) high, the Space Needle was once the tallest building west of the Mississippi River in the United States.
  • Construction history section
    It was completed in April 1962 at a cost of $4.5 million.
  • Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
    The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, considered an icon of the city and designated a Seattle landmark. Located at 400 Broad Street in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood, it was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew more than 2.3 million visitors.
  • In Style: Googie Architecture, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Googie architecture
  • Uses Element: Steel, Wikipedia article
    The miniseries mistakenly portrays the Needle as crumbling concrete, though the structure is actually made of steel and designed to withstand up to a 9.0 earthquake.
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2. Wikidata: Space Needle
  • Wikidata Q5317, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q5317, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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