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Prima Tower (Singapore) dining area showing an example of a revolving restaurant.
A revolving restaurant is a restaurant on a revolving floorplate. The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the revolving floor. The revolving rate varies between one and three times per hour and enables the visitors of the tower restaurant to enjoy the panorama of the tower without leaving their seats. Such restaurants are often located on upper stories of hotels, television towers and skyscrapers. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Revolution (disambiguation). ... A tower restaurant is a restaurant located in a tower and is accessible by an elevator. ... A hotel is an establishment that provides lodging, usually on a short-term basis. ... Masts of the Rugby VLF transmitter in England Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antennas (also known as aerials in the UK) for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. ... Taipei 101, the worlds tallest skyscraper by roof height on high rise. ...
History
John Graham, a Seattle architect and early shopping mall pioneer, is said to be the first to come up with the idea of this sort of restaurant when he created La Ronde on top of an office building at the Ala Moana Shopping Center in Honolulu in 1961. The original site has since been re-developed; Graham later used the technology to build the revolving restaurant still in service at the top of Seattle's Space Needle. However, a revolving restaurant on Florianturm, a TV tower in Dortmund, Germany, was brought into service in 1959. John Graham, Johnny Graham or Jack Graham may be: Politics and History: John Graham (soldier) (fl. ... For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ... La Ronde, or Six Flags La Ronde, is an amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Ala Moana Center was once the largest shopping center in the United States and currently holds the distinction of being the largest open air shopping center in the world. ... This article is about the Landmark. ... The Florianturm (Florian Tower, Florian for short) is a landmark of Dortmund (Germany). ... Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. ...
Now, with the region's euphoria undone by a series of financial crises, those revolvingrestaurants are not only a reminder of the recent boom, but are taken as a sign that all is not lost.
The revolvingrestaurant became not just a big tourist draw but a must-have weapon in the civic arsenal of every latter-day Babbitt: revolvingrestaurants were the riverboat casinos of the Sixties and Seventies.
But as revolvingrestaurants sprouted like metallic dandelions in every arriviste burgh from Houston to Columbus, they began to lose their novelty, moving from futurist icon to banal convention center appendage.
Many revolvingrestaurants around the world rely on the view so much they forget about the quality of their food.
Though revolvingrestaurants are becoming a relic of the past – much like the malt shop and the corner hardware store - CK’s has remained one of Tampa Bay’s most enduring fine dining institutions – an impressive feat in a city whose restaurant scene changes swiftly.
CK’s opened in a decade that marked the pinnacle of revolvingrestaurants in the United States, yet the idea of dinner accompanied by a high-altitude view dates back at least to the Eiffel Tower, which has featured a restaurant at its second platform since debuting in 1889.
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