Last Glance

A Roaring Good Time

If you’re fascinated by dinosaurs and are ever in Changzhou, China, you’ll likely find your way to China Dinosaurs Park, an amusement park built around a museum housing dinosaur skeletons,...

Complicated Roping

ELEVATOR WORLD China Correspondent Peng Jie took these pictures on a rainy day near the riverside of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in Suzhou, China. The door measures roughly 5 m wide...

Take a Step Beyond Retail on Saks Fifth Avenue’s Escalator

Saks Fifth Avenue redesigned the main floor of its flagship store in Midtown Manhattan, one of many upgrades that seek to “step beyond mere retail transactions and involve the visitor...

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...

Different views of the proposed tower; images courtesy of RSHP

54-Story City of London Tower Approved

FUJITEC DX CERTIFICATION RENEWED BY METI

Fujitec DX Certification Renewed by METI

EFESME PARIS ROUNDTABLE CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY

EFESME Paris Roundtable Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Images courtesy of Aparna Constructions

Otis India to Equip Five Projects With 178 Elevators

Elevator entrance; image courtesy of NYC Housing Connect via New York YIMBY

Skyline Elevator System For New Brooklyn Residential Building