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Design Perspectives By Clair Enlow |
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June 26, 2013
Design Perspectives: Dreaming in concrete: Engineers and the 1962 World's Fair
By CLAIR ENLOW
Special to the Journal
Special to the Journal
Courtesy of Seattle Center
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The new Space Needle rises over the fairgrounds. Structural engineers worked almost around the clock on the design even as construction was under way.
If design is about dreams, structural engineering is about figuring out how to make those dreams a reality. At the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, this happened in record time — and the dreams live on.
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