On May 29, the One World Trade Center Observatory in New York will open up to the public. To get passengers to the 102nd floor as quickly as possible, 71 elevators designed by the German conglomerate ...

Few inventions have changed the design of the modern city like the elevator. The ability to shuttle groups of people rapidly hundreds of feet into the air has transformed the way we live, work, and ...

<b>Tower Transit: A Game of Fast-Paced Elevator Control</b><br>By FogleBird<br><br><b>Story:</b> The citizens of City X have places to go and people to see. Without speedy transportation, these ...

The Shanghai Tower is a 632-meter (2,073 ft), 127-story megatall skyscraper in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai. As of 2016, it is the world’s second-tallest building by height to architectural top (behind ...

When you’re building supertalls, there are other problems to worry about than just making sure they don’t fall or blow over. One of the biggest is how to get people up to the top in a reasonable ...

Real-estate developers in the Middle East and Asia seem to be obsessed with whose is bigger — whose building, that is. Nine of the world’s 10 tallest edifices exist in those two parts of the world.

Today, the Japanese tech giant Hitachi announced a contract to build two of the fastest elevator in the world for a forthcoming skyscraper in China. Seems innocuous enough, right? But buried within ...

Call it the Elevator Index. If you want to know where the world's hottest economies are, skip the GDP reports, employment statistics and consumer spending trends. All you need to do is answer one ...

In 1857, the first commercial passenger elevator reached speeds of 40 feet a minute. More than a century and a half later, an elevator built by Hitachi is expected to reach a maximum speed of 3937 ...