(Todd Bishop / GeekWire) Artist’s rendering of the biospheres under construction in Amazon’s new Seattle campus. (Amazon/NBBJ) The “Jetsons”-esque Space Needle is even visible just blocks ...

The temporary screen that was wrapping the Space Needle has been removed to reveal the first phase of the $100 million renovation that the Seattle icon is undergoing. The 20-foot tall screen ...

The 48 glass panels - each weighing over a ton - are destined to become part of the Space Needle's remodeled observation deck, now under construction. The deck will boast new floor-to-ceiling ...

“There’s a really wonderful display about the architecture and history of the Space Needle told through photographs and quotes,” Woo says of the exhibit. “The under-construction ...

The Space Needle will also add a construction ... firm that designed the prior improvements under the Century Project. Hoffman Construction was the primary contractor for the Century Project.

Courtesy the Space Needle This original concept drawing shows the Space Needle with only glass windows and now overhead cage. Under the new proposal, the metal cage now enclosing the observation ...

This week the Space Needle will begin a four-year construction project to modernize their iconic golden elevators. Before they can install the new elevators, about a year of modifications are ...

Jeff Wright still remembers the time his dad, Howard S. Wright, took him to the top of the Space Needle while it was under construction. When the elevator doors opened at the top of the structure ...

What was meant to be the Big Reveal on the Space Needle’s new ... the planned updates. Construction crews who did the job worked on a heavy, open-air platform under the restaurant to do the ...

Its creators were going to call it the Space Cage, which made no ... 28,000-pound construction platform up around the Needle’s tripod steel structure, anchoring it at the 500-foot level and ...