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Designs Revealed for What Would Be London’s Tallest Tower

Eric Parry Architects has revealed new visualizations of its overhauled designs for One Undershaft, which is set to be the City of London’s tallest tower, Architects’ Journal reports. The plans...

CTBUH 2024 Awards Program Portal Now Open for Submissions

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) 2024 Awards Program portal is now open for project submissions, and the submission deadline is February 9, 2024. Judged by an...

Call for Abstracts for CTBUH 2024 International Conference

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Development (CTBUH) has issued a call for abstracts for the CTBUH 2024 International Conference to be held in London and Paris on September...

EW Announces 2024 Project of the Year Winners

ELEVATOR WORLD proudly announces the 2024 Project of the Year winners. Expert teams in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Singapore and the Middle East emerged victorious by successfully completing challenging,...

CTBUH UK Chapter To Host End-of-Year Celebration and Conference Launch

The U.K. chapter of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) plans to host an end-of-year celebration and launch of the 2024 “New or Renew” conference on the...

Otis Elevators for Unique West End London Office Property

Otis tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided 10 Gen2® elevators for Lucent, a new, 144,000-ft2, six-story office-led property by Landsec in London's West End. The entire sixth floor has been leased...

Designs in the Works for London’s Fourth-Tallest Tower

RSHP is working up designs for a “landmark” 240-m-tall, 54-story skyscraper, which would be the Square Mile’s fourth-tallest tower, to replace contractor Multiplex Europe’s headquarters at 99 Bishopsgate in London,...

Anlev Completes Acquisition of Two U.K. Lift Companies

Anlev Elevator Group, the lift, escalator and moving walk brand of Hong Kong-headquartered Analogue Holdings Ltd., announced on October 18 it completed two acquisitions of U.K. companies, furthering its global...

AKE Welcomes Hughes as U.K. Country Manager

AKE Aufzüge & Fahrtreppen GmbH, headquartered in Baesweiler, Germany, recently announced it has named Gareth Hughes as U.K. country manager. Hughes joins AKE from Orton Lifts & Escalators, where he...

In Memoriam: Yee Meng Foo

Yee Meng Foo, a longtime employee of KONE U.K., passed away on August 26 after a short illness. He was 71. Joining KONE U.K. in 1988, Foo was a design...

LeCardi

LeCardi Named Metro Elevator VP of Modernization

The PUKKA project; image courtesy of realestate.eg

Schindler To Provide Elevators For Cairo NAC Project

BUCHER HYDRAULICS ACQUIRING FINLAND’S HYDMAN OY

Bucher Hydraulics Acquiring Finland’s Hydman Oy

Stack

In Memoriam: Thomas Stack

(l-r) Don Gelestino with his father, Donald Gelestino; image courtesy of Don Gelestino

In Memoriam: Gelestino’s Namesake Father