revolving restaurant was then closed, but has been in continued service since 1969. John Graham, a Seattle architect and early shopping mall pioneer, is said to be the first in the United States to design a revolving restaurant, at La Ronde, atop an office building at the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu in 1961. Graham was awarded US patent 3125189 for the invention in 1964, and used the technology to build the former revolving "Eye of the Needle" restaurant at the top of Seattle's Space Needle, drawings of which appear in the patent application. The tallest revolving restaurant in the world is The TWIST Mediterranean Buffet, a revolving door restaurant located in Guangzhou, China. TWIST is the third highest restaurant in the world and the highest revolving restaurant in the world at 1,387 feet on the 106th floor of the Canton building. Canton Tower is the world's second tallest tower and the fifth-tallest freestanding structure. The second tallest revolving restaurant in the world and seventh tallest restaurant in the world is 360, the restaurant at the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada, was number one in 1975–2010. Number three now is Seventh Heaven in Moscow, which was number one in 1967–75. The Telkom tower in South Africa Johannesburg, housed two rotating restaurants, namely the Grill Room and Heinrichs restaurant. It was built in 1971 but closed in 1981 due to security reasons. Tex Palazzo Hotel in Surat was the first Revolving Restaurant in India started in 1973. Some revolving restaurants no longer revolve due to the extremely high costs of repairs. Safety One death has been attributed to the operation of a rotating restaurant. In 2017, a five-year-old boy was wedged between the rotating part of the restaurant and a wall at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. See also Floating restaurant Googie architecture List of revolving restaurants References External links Restaurants by type