Amenities Featured in Planned Stockholm Tower Architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has designed its first building in Sweden, a 90-m-tall residential structure in Stockholm that World Architecture News said in May “will simmer with life and public activities.” The development, known as Gasklockan, will replace a 1930s industrial structure of the same height. The…
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Alimak Hoists at London Residential High-Rise Project Six Alimak Hek construction hoists are at work on two of the three South Quay Plaza buildings, a 200-m-tall residential development just south of Canary Wharf in London on the Isle of Dogs. Designed by Foster + Partners, South Quay Plaza is being developed by The Berkeley Group,…
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Turkey Positioned as Export Hub With Plant Opening thyssenkrupp has opened its first escalator production plant in Turkey, located in the Dilovasi Organized Industrial Zone in the northern Marmara province of Kocaeli, Daily Saba reported. Accompanied by a training campus, the EUR200-million (US$237-million) facility will produce 1,200 escalators annually, positioning Turkey as an escalator export…
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Construction Underway on Country’s Future Tallest Construction is underway on the Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Centre, a 668-m-tall tower for Shenzhen. The height would exceed China’s current tallest building, the 632-m-tall Shanghai Tower, which is also the world’s second tallest, dezeen reported. Though several details, such as the architect, are unknown, the building is being…
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BIG-Designed Project with Twisting Towers Moves Forward The Eleventh, a Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)-designed project described by developer HFZ Capital as a “micro neighborhood” along the High Line in West Chelsea (ELEVATOR WORLD, December 2016) is progressing nicely, with completion anticipated by the end of 2019, The Architect’s Newspaper reported. Including pavilions under the High…
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Mitsubishi Electric US Announces Promotions Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc., headquartered in Cypress, California, has promoted two senior-level executives: Mike Corbo to executive vice president and chief operating officer of Mitsubishi Electric US, and Erik Zommers to senior vice president and general manager of the Elevator and Escalator Division. Zommers, who joined the division in 1989,…
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Otis Job in San Francisco Represents a Worldwide First Otis has been selected to outfit the new Oceanwide Center in downtown San Francisco (ELEVATOR WORLD, October 2016) with 53 elevators and escalators. It will be the first development in the world to use the Otis CompassPlus® destination-dispatch system, which will allow the elevators to “more…
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Developers have unveiled plans for Riverwalk Place, a mixed-use tower that, if built as planned, will be Tampa’s tallest building, the Tampa Bay Times reported in April. The US$350-million shimmering glass tower will hold offices, retail space and about 240 condominiums within its 50-plus stories. It would sit on a site once promoted as the…
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Otis Chosen for Willis Tower Elevator Modernization Otis has been chosen by Equity Office to modernize the elevator system in Chicago’s iconic Willis Tower, which is undergoing a US$500-million makeover. The contract includes 83 elevators and 97 passenger cabs, which will be upgraded to SkyRise® units using the CompassPlusTM destination-management system. It also includes machine…
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Schumacher Is Adding 22,600 sq. ft. in Iowa Schumacher Elevator Co. has grown by nearly 100 employees and more than tripled sales since consolidating six locations under one roof in Denver, Iowa, in 2000 and is now expanding by 22,600 sq. ft. to accommodate that growth, Cedar Valley Business Monthly reported. Scheduled for completion in…
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