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Photo courtesy of the George Gulacsik Collection, Seattle Public Library. If you need directions to our office, please contact us by phone. Our office in Renton has moved. Talk as much as you want about flying cars, but the experience of seeing that capsule in person was what it must have felt like to see a holy relic in the Middle Ages. Other old fair structures symbolized the future of “man in the Space Age,” but this building actually contained the state-of-the-art gear to get us to the New Frontier. The Northwest Rooms, once a small conference center, now houses SIFF Film Center, The VERA Project and the headquarters of KEXP 90.3 FM. Its landmark feature is the 605-foot (184 m) tall Space Needle, which at the time of its completion was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. In a city moved by minds like Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who both visited the fair, and successors like Jeff Bezos, the civic resonance of such events is lasting. Though the NASA Building is only a remnant, the board is wise to not let it slip unremarked and unexamined into history’s dustbin without a second look. It’s what’s left of the NASA Pavilion, the actual place where Seattle’s “Space Age World’s Fair” met the actual Space Age in 1962. Redevelopment might see new entrances and amenities there. Glenn’s actual space capsule, Friendship 7, came to the fair in August of ’62 as part of an around-the-world tour so that the public could see it up close in the NASA Pavilion.

Architectural integrity is generally a very important factor in landmark consideration. This future-looking, 20-year plan sets forth 10 planning and design principles to effectively guide redevelopment. Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions. Find a hotel Open today 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Buy tickets. The large, flexible space can accommodate a wide range of commercial, charity and community events. A couple of the other structures on the property predate the fair but were used as staff offices during the exposition. "There’s no pride in doing the bare minimum, and there’s no pride in standing in the center when there are two clear sides: life or death.”, Leah Griffin helps guide the creation of laws that intimately impact rape survivors in Washington state. They will also tour the structures before the Aug. 2 meeting at which they’ll make their decision. One of them, the Blue Spruce Building, a repurposed 1950s era apartment building, is also being considered for landmark status. All the news you missed in between reading about coronavirus. Unexpectedly the board decided to consider two other structures on the KeyArena property for landmark status as well. The NASA Pavilion, just south of what we now call KeyArena, was the first major outreach of the space program to engage the public with exhibits of real rockets, satellites and other tech that was pushing human limits. The old NASA Pavilion was previously cut down and stripped of some of its original, corrugated metal exterior pieces. He was also the supervising architect for the entire fair site. We are committed to upholding the highest safety precautions and procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic affecting our region, and will continue seeing patients by appointment who are asymptomatic. The landmarks process will determine how much of the southern slate can be cleared. Spanning an area of 74 acres (30 ha), it was originally built for the 1962 World's Fair.