Last Glance
World’s Shortest Escalator: A Tiny Star on the Expo Floor
Secretary General of the China Elevator Association Zhang Lexiang recently used LinkedIn to show off some cool escalator photos from the 14th World Elevator & Escalator Expo, held in Shanghai...
Hobby-Turned-Passion Yields Stunning Photograph
More than 10 years ago, architect/interior designer Froilan Robas was working in Dubai when he discovered the hobby of photography. In a 2019 interview with Asian Geographic,[1] Robas said he...
A Little Flash Was Icing on the Cake
In line with our Machines and Drives focus, we take you inside the machine room serving Self-Help® Credit Union at 122 North Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina. Here, mechanics...
Early 1950s Route Sheets a Window to the Past
Recently on LinkedIn, David Banks, senior sales representative at Middletown, Indiana-based FabACab, shared a few pieces of interesting elevator memorabilia: a pair of elevator inspector route sheets dating from 1951...
A “Champion” of a Table
“It was one heck of a job and an amazing story. [President Modernization/Construction Robert Masterson] embarked on a mission,” says Donald Gelestino, president of NYC-based Champion Elevator, of this project....
Dynamic Grandeur, Sculpted Finesse on the Mediterranean
“Built to last” is one way container shipping company CMA CGM describes its international headquarters, the 147-m-tall CMA CGM Tower overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in Marseille, France. Served by 13...
Looking Ahead to a Post-Coronavirus World
If we’ve learned anything in this issue of ELEVATOR WORLD, it’s that the coronavirus, the nasty little microbe responsible for the global COVID-19 pandemic, is changing the way society thinks...
Backstage Beauty
Draper Elevator Interiors of Holbrook, Massachusetts, collaborated with Group One Partners to design, fabricate and install four custom elevator cabs in the Boston Theater District’s Moxy Hotel. Custom backlit blackened...
Functional Works of Art
David Chipperfield’s James-Simon-Galerie in Berlin features these classy-yet-essential Schindler elevators. As Fabian Peters wrote for STYLEPARK: “The prominent placing of the elevator is a clear indication of its significance: The...
Getting the Word Out
We were happy to find this nationally syndicated cartoon by Jeff Harris making its rounds in newspapers’ crossword puzzles in January. In addition to Alisa Goetz’s book Up, Down, Across:...
