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Alpine Wonderland Holds the Highest Outdoor Elevator in Europe
by Sophie Goodwin Europe’s highest outdoor elevator is just a hop, catamaran and funicular away from Switzerland’s picturesque alpine landscape. Two thousand ft above sea level sits the historic Bürgenstock...
Unwind With Going Up
by Sophie Goodwin A new puzzle game is about to be every elevator industry member’s favorite way to relax after a long day of vertical-transportation (VT) work. While the day-to-day...
The Closing of the Last Human Operated Elevators in Chicago
by Sophie Goodwin The last human-operated elevator in Chicago, Illinois, is keeping a long-gone tradition alive. While you won't find the old ashtrays of the past in these elevators, the...
Innovative Elevator To Celebrate Nation’s Heroes
by Kaija Wilkinson The Medal of Honor is the U.S. Armed Forces’ highest military decoration, and the memory of the more than 3,500 heroes who received it will be forever...
A Giraffe’s Point of View
Have you ever wondered what the world looks like from a giraffe’s perspective? In Beersheba, Israel’s newly opened Midbarium experiential animal park, or zoo, visitors not only observe wild animals...
Where There’s a Tower, There’s an Elevator
Inside the Eiffel Tower, an historical landmark built by engineer Gustave Eiffel and inaugurated at the 1889 Paris Exposition, live historical elevators. The famous French icon holds more secrets than...
VT for Life
On November 16, 2024, self-proclaimed vertical-transportation (VT) nerds Caterina Anderson and Henrik Staal of Denmark tied the knot. Both work in the VT industry at Otis, with Staal having been...
From India to the U.S.
EW hosts PAPL Corp. President and CEO KK Ravi. ELEVATOR WORLD was honored to host PAPL Corp. President and CEO Krishna Kumar “KK” Ravi in November 2024 during his first...
Middle East Marvels
On a recent trip to Dubai, U.A.E., for The Elevator Show Dubai’s inaugural exposition, your author had the opportunity to visit the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building with a...
“An Invisible Door”
“This glass elevator takes passengers from an underground parking garage, through a hill, to the castle-like buildings of Washington University,” described Corinne Char, who submitted a pair of photos from...