Ecuador
Art Installation Transforms Elevator Encasement in NYC
Americas Society inaugurated Elena Damiani's Zenith (2022) as a permanent art installation for the David Rockefeller Atrium of Americas Society’s NYC headquarters on Park Avenue. Zenith is an elevator encasement...
Tallest Building in Ecuadorian Capital Complete
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has completed a 32-story tower that is the tallest building in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, and the practice’s first project in South America, Building Design...
Six Residential Towers Nestled in Greenery Planned in Ecuador
In its first project in South America, architect MVRDV has conceived a plan that consists of six residential towers up to 470 ft tall atop a mixed-use plinth on the...
The Stairways of Ambato
In this Project Spotlight, DOPPLER customize VT to provide greater accessibility in one neighborhood in Ecuador. Designing escalators and moving walks, as with any other vertical-transportation (VT) device, requires a...
Three Safdie Projects Follow Goals of Habitat ’67
Three high-rise projects by noted firm Safdie Architects — one nearly completed, one just topped out and one newly launched — offer a vision of residential projects in Asia and Latin America...
TKE Lands 122-Unit VT Contract for Quito Metro System
Quito, Ecuador, is building its first metro transit system, and TK Elevator (TKE) has been awarded the vertical-transportation (VT) contract for the first line, the company announced on August 6....
