MOCAA by Heatherwick Studios Reinvents the Vertical Journey

Experience the magic of the Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) elevators by Heatherwick Studio. These custom glass elevators celebrate the historic silos, reinventing the vertical journey. With transparency and interplay of light, they offer captivating views and a revitalized museum visit. Discover how Heatherwick's innovative design creates a transcendent experience, merging art and architecture in a mesmerizing way. Step into the MOCAA elevators and be transported to a world where history and modernity seamlessly intertwine.

Louis Vuitton Elevator: A Tribute to the Art of Travel at Le Dokhan's, Paris Arc de Triomphe

Le Dokhan's, Paris Arc de Triomphe is a luxury hotel located close to the iconic Arc de Triomphe. Guest rooms, restaurant, bar, fitness center and exceptional service are offered but what makes this hotel truly unique is its elevator cab, made from a vintage Louis Vuitton steamer trunk, adding luxury and nostalgia to guest experience. Perfect choice for luxury travelers visiting Paris.

Designing the Perfect Elevator Cab Interior: A Step-by-Step Guide

Elevators are an essential component of modern buildings and designing an elevator cab interior involves a combination of functionality, safety, and aesthetics. From defining the purpose of the elevator to choosing materials and colors, lighting, adding safety features, wayfinding, branding, and considering the overall aesthetic. It's important to test and evaluate the design, regular maintenance and attention to details.

Elevated Fun: The Best Elevator Rides at Disney World and Disneyland

Elevator rides at Disney World and Disneyland are a type of theme park attraction that involve passengers riding in an elevator-style vehicle to a specific destination, often with a theme or storyline incorporated into the ride experience. These attractions can range in intensity and thrill level, and may be suitable for riders of all ages or may have height or age restrictions.

Custom Elevator, Vertical LandscapeJoshua NelsonDecember 19, 2022Disney

White Elevator Design Ideas

Elegant, modern, pure, simple, clean, sophisticated, timeless white elevator interiors. Here are some amazing ideas for white elevator cab interiors.

Custom ElevatorJoshua NelsonNovember 6, 2022Elevator Interior, Interior Design

Schindler Partners with MX3D to Create a 3D Printed Elevator Design

In the joint project with MX3D, Schindler elevator car has designed a 3D printed elevator cab that looks like a filigree leafless branches. A design that can only be produced using 3D printing. In addition to aesthetics, however, the project is also dedicated to topology optimization, which aims to achieve the best possible design. “Essentially, you look at an object and lots of it is superfluous material”

Art Elevator, Conceptual Design, Custom Elevator, Schindler ElevatorJoshua NelsonNovember 7, 2021Materials

This Hip Hong Kong Apartment Building Gloriously Celebrates Public Amenities Over Private Space

Hong Kong-based, Australian architect Ben McCarthy of Charlie & Rose is well known for his creatively designed hospitality and food and beverage projects. His design sensibilities caught the attention of Hong Kong–based property developer District 15, who commissioned McCarthy to design a serviced studio apartment complex named The Nate.

Custom Elevator, Hotel Elevator, Residential DesignJoshua NelsonOctober 11, 2021Hong Kong, Hotel, Apartment

Tribe Hotel, Perth | Travis Walton Architecture & Interior Design

This innovative modular hotel was manufactured entirely offshore and shipped to its home site in West Perth, a process that significantly reduced the cost of construction. Where the developer hasn’t skimped is interior design, recruiting TWA to create an ‘edited luxury experience’ that’s part social destination, part gallery space and every inch a sophisticated sanctuary for the urban aesthete.

Art Elevator, Custom Elevator, Hotel ElevatorJoshua NelsonOctober 11, 2021Hotel, Modern Elevator, Australia

Luxury Intersects with Fantasy in Shenzen's Sonmei Hotel

Sonmei hotel is located in the southeast corner of a commercial building in Shenzen, China. The reception hall on the first floor intersects with a neighbouring office building. It is the crossing of daily customer flow and staff. In such a comprehensive modern field, the integration and existence of the hotel has become particularly important. With unexpected artistic intervention, the designer broke the established state and orthodox impression of the space, and opened up a new world that is different from the routine and presents artistic and unique aura

Custom Elevator, Hotel Elevator, Modern Elevator DesignJoshua NelsonApril 4, 2021Hotel, China, Elevator Lighting

WIPdesign has Crafted An Astonishing Elevator for the Champaign Brand Moët & Chandon

WIPdesign has created and built the lobby and the monumental elevator of the Maison Moët & Chandon at Epernay. Moët & Chandon, also known simply as Moët, is a French fine winery and co-owner of the luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE. Moët et Chandon is one of the world's largest champagne producers and a prominent champagne house.

Heatherwick Studio's Ultra-Luxury Residence Blossoms Out of Singapore's Skyline

Heatherwick Studio’s new ultra-luxury residence in the heart of Singapore's Admore Draycotta Area is a tranquil vertical palace of natural beauty. With an abundance of sensuous spaces, the building blossoms out of the city into a soaring vertical landscape.

Extraordinary Art Deco Elevator Designs From Around the World

Architects and designers wanted to create a modern style better suited for the modern mechanical and industrial age marking. Art Deco celebrated movement and motion developed from what people saw as the aesthetics of the machine age. It was sleek and sophisticated, featuring smooth surfaces and bold colours in high contrasts like black and white.

Intricate Washi Paper Artworks by Tetsuya Nagata Adorn Elevators at Andaz Tokyo Hotel

Japans rich history of craft and design dates back ever since humans settled on its islands. Traditionally artisans and trained workers used natural materials to craft functional objects. These objects were created to be used, but also to be displayed, a blurring of form and function which continues to be emphasized throughout Japan today.

If you want to learn about elevator manners, go to Nihonbashi Takashimaya in Tokyo, Japan.

Since its founding in 1831, Nihonbashi Takashimaya has been a people-centered department store that enhanced customers’ expectations on service and hospitality while closely mastering traditional manners and customs.

Pacific Place Bubble Elevators by Thomas Heatherwick is a Sensual Experience of Texture, Form and Materiality

Waves of stone ripple around the corners of a Hong Kong shopping centre renovated by British designer Thomas Heatherwick. Pacific Place was originally constructed in the 1980s and is located at the base of four towers, which house offices, hotels and luxury apartments.

1908 Otis Fensom Heritage Lift Finds its Former Glory at Ontario Heritage Trust

This is what it feels like when a “working artifact” morphs off the pages of history and into today. This particular artifact is located in the Birkbeck Building at 10 Adelaide Street East, Toronto, a historic 1908 building that houses the headquarters of the Ontario Heritage Trust. Bubelis is the trust’s architect and the man who decided to rebuild the elevator to look and operate as it did in 1908, the year the building opened.

Karim Rachid's Sonic-Maximalism is on Full Display in Berlin Concept Hotel

NH Hotel Group unleashed Industrial Designer Karim Rachid to create a one of a kind hotel experience in Berlin unlike anything anywhere else in the world. With adrenaline-filled highs Karim Rachid maximalist style dominates the public spaces with psychedelic and seductive spaces.

Art Elevator, Custom Elevator, Hotel Elevator, Modern Elevator DesignJoshua NelsonMarch 7, 2020Hotel, Berlin, Karim Rachid

W-Hotel's New Lightbending Neon-Lit Elevator

Neon is present all around us, it reminds us of the modern and exciting urban landscape and can also appear nostalgic and old-school at the same time. This is what makes the blinged out 2.5-metre glowing beetle on the back of the elevator wall the perfect centrepiece for W-Hotels new luxury hotel in Brisbane.

Art Elevator, Custom Elevator, Hotel ElevatorJoshua NelsonFebruary 10, 2020LED Light Panels, Elevator Lighting, Art, Art Elevator

Bespoke Tower marks completion of Rem Koolhaas’s City of Art Complex for Prada in Milan

Rem Koolhaas’s new tower designed for Prada puts movement at its core. A panoramic glass elevator and encasing staircase cuts through the one-of-a-kind building giving visitors wide-ranging views of the compound and the city around it while cantilevering decks allow for different height floors for galleries, cafes, and restaurants. Koolhaas swaps out the standard stacked floor plan with a radical diversity within a simple volume.

Prestigious Hotel Receives Nostalgic Makeover

Housed within the Viceroy Hotel Chicago (which is also the historic site of the 1920s Cedar Hotel), Somerset is the fourth collaboration between Boka Restaurant Group and AvroKO and the latest culinary concept from the esteemed chef Lee Wolen. Located in the prestigious and well-heeled Gold Coast neighbourhood, the design team derived inspiration from the 1960s and 1970s when the Kennedy-esque leisure set was in its heyday frequenting country clubs throughout America.

Custom ElevatorJoshua NelsonJanuary 21, 2020Hotel