Last Glance
Isle of Signs
ELEVATOR WORLD Technical Advisory Group member and contributor John Antona spied a well-signed escalator while traveling through the Grenada airport. He explained: “One photo clearly states that the escalator is...
Shooting Ranges and Elevator Rides
In 2015, The Memphis Pyramid, a local landmark that was once a popular sports and entertainment arena, became a Bass Pro Shops megastore. The store contains everything from a shooting...
Curiouser and Curiouser!
Crown Metropol Melbourne in Australia “is hoping to be the next site of your next profile pic,” Time Out reported in November 2018. Local artist George Ross created this series...
The Dregs
Here’s a last look at the last party of the 2018 National Association of Elevator Contractors Annual Convention and Expo. The Dregs Party took place September 27 at The Wild...
Found: A 150-Plus-Year-Old Elevator!
This “elevator” was built and placed into service during the early 1860s and remained continuously so through the early 1950s. Although such rigs later came to be known as lifts...
It’s a Small Elevator World
John Antona, longtime ELEVATOR WORLD contributor and member of its Technical Advisory Committee, recently reconnected with his native Africa and made a “new, old friend” — EW Africa Correspondent Shem...
“One Elevator. One Huge Secret.”
To most of us, the space elevator is a far-in-the- future dream of scientists. However, in the new novel Counterweight Maneuver, written by elevator man Richie De-Benham, it is quite...
Calgary Tower Celebrates 50 Years
When it opened to the public on June 30, 1968, what was then known as the Husky Tower was a sight to behold in downtown Calgary, Canada, twice as high...
Integrated Interior
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) awarded the Sound Transit University of Washington Station one of its five 2018 Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture. LMN Architects collaborated with artist...
Putting the Garage in the Sky
ELEVATOR WORLD first reported on the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach, Miami, in our September 2015 issue. The first-of-their-kind car lifts were installed under the ASME A17.7 performance-based...
