Last Glance
Greetings From Old Town Lijiang
ELEVATOR WORLD China Correspondent Peng Jie loves traveling around his country seeing its stunning natural beauty and amazing historical sites. Recently, he took a long drive to the famous Old...
A Different Kind of Merger
ELEVATOR WORLD Correspondent and Managing Director of U.K.-based consultancy LECS (UK) Ltd. David Cooper married Louisa Wilson on May 6 at the Hotel du Vin in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, U.K....
Metro as Museum
When thyssenkrupp announced it had won a major maintenance contract from Azienda Napoletana Mobilita (ANM) in Naples, Italy (ELEVATOR WORLD, April 2017), it shared photographs of some of the units...
Long Service Life, Still Serviceable
Colley Elevator Co. of Bensenville, Illinois, featured this interesting installation, at 321 South Jefferson Street in Chicago, on its Twitter account. Colley’s Craig Zomchek explained the company encountered it when...
From Tuscany to Miami
Massimo Bezzi, John Antona and Gianluca Bertazzoni were able to meet in Antona’s hometown of Miami when Bezzi and Betazzoni (both from Italy) attended the Miami International Boat Show on...
Partners in Dine
This photo was taken on a dinner cruise at last year’s LIFTECH EXPO in Cairo (ELEVATOR WORLD, April 2016). From left to right are Hesham Shokry, Amir Shokry, T.Bruce MacKinnon...
Elevators out of a Fantasy
ELEVATOR WORLD Associate Editor Kaija Wilkinson recently had the pleasure of taking a cruise on the Carnival Fantasy from EW’s hometown of Mobile, Alabama, to Mexico and couldn’t help but...
“Green” Architecture Inspired by Nature
ArchDaily has published photos of Vincent Callebaut Architectures’ under-construction Tao Zhu Yin Yuan sustainable tower. Rising in the Xinjin District of Taipei, the tower features a rotating form that draws inspiration...
Hydraulics Showcased in Feat of Engineering
The strength of hydraulic jacks was on display in November 2016 when a gigantic hangar-like structure was moved to the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor No. 4...
Two Lines Converge?
Dr. Gina Barney of Gina Barney Associates in the U.K. sent ELEVATOR WORLD Editor and Publisher Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick the following note: “I was Scottish dancing in Whittington Village Hall (12...
