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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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The Shanghai Tower — the world’s second tallest building — has just set three Guinness World Records. The Chinese skyscraper now officially has the world’s fastest elevator, tallest elevator in a ...

Any Truist Park visitor will undoubtedly notice a structure looming over the ballpark well beyond the heights of a pop fly. The narrow skyscaper rises 420 feet, and it’s top floor offers views ...