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Long Escalator Links to Long Island Rail Road
This photo, submitted by Kimberly Thomas to the ELEVATOR WORLD 2024 Photo Contest, shows the nerve-racking view passengers have as they ascend from Grand Central Madison to the historic Grand...
Historic Lift at Hotel Boulderado
Opened on New Year’s Day 1909, Hotel Boulderado is considered Boulder, Colorado’s first luxury hotel. The elevator shaft was the first thing to be built during the historic hotel’s construction...
Kona Graduates
In 2021, SCS Elevator Products partnered with Guide Dogs of America-Tender Loving Canines (GDA-TLC) to sponsor a service dog in training named Kona. Regional Sales Manager Brian Hilfrank suggested the...
“Cotton Candy” Elevator
Fujitec, the Japan-headquartered global vertical-transportation OEM that operates 10 global production facilities around the world, in 2023 held an in-house illustration contest with the theme “The Future of Elevators or...
“Escalator Slide”
“Corporate austerity meets playground pleasures” is how artist/designer Julijonas Urbonas describes his 2020 public art installation “Escalator Slide.” Located in Live Square, a business and residential center in Vilnius, Lithuania,...
Space Elevator Conversations Continue
The concept of a space elevator was first published in 1895 by Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, he imagined a similar structure...
Pop Art Elevator
An elevator at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) College of Art and Design (CAD) in New York recently received a whimsical mural makeover. Fourth-year illustration student Emma McCarthy of Mexico,...
G-Tech Elevator System for New Queens Tower
photos by Kendra Glenn Kendra Glenn, senior project manager at Linden, New Jersey-headquartered G-Tech Elevator Associates LLC, recently shared a few photographs of Imperial 705 machines being craned into place...
“A Piece of History”
In an unexpected, yet nostalgic, crossover, ELEVATOR WORLD recently received a letter containing a baseball card. Addressed to Dr. Lee Gray, curator for EW’s online elevator museum, the note from...
Sustainability: More Than a Buzzword
photos courtesy of KONE Corp. The roof of KONE Corp.’s Hyvinkää, Finland, factory is the headquarters of an exceptionally productive team of workers: a colony of 500,000 bees. Since 2020,...
