Last Glance
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:...
Postapocalyptic Winter Wonderland
Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio, was open from 1975 until 2011. While it boasted more than 140 stores (including five anchor stores, a movie theater and a food court)...
More Than an Elevator Ride
Michael J. Ryan, vice president of business development at The Peelle Co., sent in these gorgeous green photos of the SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve in Renton, Washington. He said Peelle...
Even More to See at the Empire State Building
Otis earned the modernization contract for the Empire State Building’s elevators in 2011 and installed a Gen2 unit with glass at the topmost travel (between the 86th and 102nd floors)...
Final Resting Place
A true elevator man sees the symbolism and poetry in what he does. One such man is Michael Frangias, director of Operations for the New York/New Jersey division of Boston-based...
Vertical Transportation in Verse
ELEVATOR WORLD Correspondent Peng Jie took this photo at World Elevator & Escalator Expo 2019 in Shanghai. It made him consider that we have little poetry in elevator-related publications: “Indeed,...
“Oyez! Oyez!”
In a long-ago era, ages before social media, the internet, television or radio, town criers served as the primary news source for many. Even though the printed word was available,...
Budding Engineer
When Ian Strong, a second-grader at Glenwood Landing Elementary School in Glen Head, New York, learned his school was organizing a science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics fair, he knew...
