When the Otis Elevator Co. started manufacturing a machine that safely lifted people up multiple stories in a building, the value of urban real estate jumped. A patch of land was once limited by a ...

Chicago will soon be home to North America's tallest glass elevator. Solomon Cordwell Buenz unveiled plans last week for the elevator, which will scale the northwest corner of the AON Building and ...

Last week German conglomerate and elevator-maker ThyssenKrupp unveiled the 21st-century equivalent of Roald Dahl’s the Great Glass Elevator. MULTI doesn’t quite blast into space, but the cable-less ...

There’s always one person who’s afraid of heights in a group ascending the 605-foot Space Needle. They’ll stand with their back to the brushed stainless steel wall on the inside of the elevator, with ...

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PROVIDENCE — Top-floor dining will be returning to the Providence Biltmore hotel downtown, and the exterior glass elevator will be brought back into service to take diners there in style. The Downtown ...

For decades, elevators were built with only one function in mind: to transport people from floor to floor. So long as they functioned efficiently and effectively, their aesthetics were of little ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Glass-encased elevators along the exterior of the Aon ...

The elevator is located at the foot of the fortress and connects the old town with the modernized urban area, divided by the Llobregat river. The old town was once only accessible via a steep and ...