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Stylish condo skyscrapers continue to proliferate.

64-Story Residential Tower Forges Ahead Brickell Flatiron, a 64-story residential tower, is forging ahead at 1001 South Miami Avenue, with a foundation pour having taken place in January, SkyRise Cities...

Activity persists beyond confines of Manhattan.

Revamped Tower Will Still Be Tallest in LIC Court Square City View Tower at 23-15 44th Drive in Long Island City (LIC) (ELEVATOR WORLD, April 2016) has been redesigned and...

Office Tower Envisioned in Downtown Philadelphia

Developer Oliver Tyrone Pulver envisions a 38-story office tower designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) on what is now a parking lot a stone’s throw away from City Hall,...

City of Angels bustles with tall-building construction.

Biggest Construction Boom Since 1920s Underway Metropolis, a megaproject with four towers; Wilshire Grand (the West Coast’s tallest building) and Circa, a pair of 35-story luxury apartment towers: all are...

A Family Repair Affair

EMR keeps the Mid Atlantic’s motors running. Family-owned and -operated companies are big business in the U.S. It has been estimated that by 2017, 40% of family business owners expect...

Tall Stories in the Big Apple

Elevator entrances reach new heights in 3 WTC, and 10 and 35 Hudson Yards. Twenty-foot-high elevator entrances? At first blush, this sounds like the stuff of imagination or a futuristic...

Buildings 3 and 26

Day Elevator & Lift provides accessibility in Brooklyn complex. Industry City is designed to be a creative hub. This network of 16 buildings lies on the banks of the East...

Champion of the Industry

For David Smarte, recipient of the William C. Sturgeon Distinguished Service Award 2016, education and safety go hand in hand. When he was growing up in Ocean City, Maryland, David...

Tall buildings multiply throughout boroughs.

Two Bridges Neighborhood Sizzles The Two Bridges neighborhood on the Lower East Side is bustling with activity with at least four towers on the drawing board in what has been...

Acquisitions and an expansion

Ohio-Based Canton under New Ownership Canton Elevator, Inc., of North Canton, Ohio, has been acquired by Nidec Motor Corp., the St. Louis subsidiary of Nidec Corp. of Japan. Nidec noted...

NEW JERSEY TRANSIT BOD PLAN TO REPLACE ESCALATORS

New Jersey Transit BoD Plan to Replace Escalators

WEEF HOLDS SECOND IN-PERSON MEETING IN FRANKFURT

WEEF Holds Second In-Person Meeting in Frankfurt

The Torch at 640 Eighth Avenue takes its place on the Midtown Manhattan skyline; rendering courtesy of ODA and SLCE Architects

TEI Group Awarded Major 30-Unit Contract at The Torch

TKE CONSIDERING US$22.7-BILLION IPO IN U.S. IN 2026

TKE Considering US$22.7-Billion IPO in U.S. in 2026

Hiyaa Towers; image courtesy of Architecture Association Maldives

Progress Made on Elevator Installation in Maldive Towers