Last Glance
Matching the Industrialist Theme
ELEVATOR WORLD Graphic Design Associate Jessica Trippe captured images of these two Schindler escalators with clear side panels while in Baltimore. The one-time power plant in which they are located...
Cenke Tower’s Standout Design
German studio HENN won a competition to design a 280-m-tall skyscraper in Taiyuan, China, de zeen reported. Cenke Tower is to be located in the center of the city. Its...
Anniversary at Mount Tianping
The first anniversary of the tourist elevator on Mount Tianping, China, was celebrated in February. The 120-m-tall Sicher GROS20 elevator can carry 1,260 passengers per hour and was challenging to...
A Final Special Application
What better way to end ELEVATOR WORLD’s Focus on Special Application Lifts than with a retired freight elevator that doubles as art and a glass-topped dining surface? EW Associate Editor...
Unauthorized Access
Riding a train without buying a ticket is never a good idea, and breaking into the tunnel with a large auger is several steps beyond. David Cooper, managing director of...
66 West 38th Street
United Elevator Cabs, Inc. of Jamaica, New York, recently modernized the cabin of an elevator at 66 West 38th Street, also called “Atlas New York,” in New York City’s Garment...
What It All Means
Mark Fulker of Halma PR Services described what (l-r) Avire Managing Director Paul Simmons and Chairman Nigel Trodd are doing in this photo, taken during the opening celebration of the...
Smith-Hill Elevator
Photos of this hand-operated Smith-Hill elevator were sent to us by ELEVATOR WORLD reader Pamela Chaney. Located in an old hardware store in Montpelier, Indiana, the ele-vator has been dated...
Well, This Is Awkward. . .
Not even the CECA Convention in Niagara Falls, Canada (p. 104), was spared the hampering of vertical transporta-tion due to a labor strike during the event. While this escalator was...
Would You Do This?
Dubbed “the world’s first lickable lift” and installed in an office building in Great Portland Street, London, this elevator car has 1,325 Jaffa Cakes cookies stuck on its walls for...
