The materials used to construct the tower were aluminum, reinforced concrete and glass.

These concessions enabled the developers to construct a tower more than twice the height which would otherwise be allowable on the site.

The first two castaways to either construct a tower 8 ft tall or have the tallest tower after 30 minutes would remain in the game.

Five million bricks, 2,500 tonnes of iron and 93 tonnes of cast steel were used to construct the tower.

In the late 1920s, university students were finally successful in collecting the necessary funding to construct a tower, although not as a war memorial.