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.
Read MoreSkyscrapers and super tall buildings are a familiar sight now our modern cities and it is likely to increase in the following years as more people and multinational companies move into urban centres. The number of elevators servicing our vertical landscape makes them one of the most significant people and good movers in the transportation and logistics industry; because of that we’ve listed off the 10 biggest elevator companies in North America.
Read MoreFor over a hundred years Nations around the world have honoured people, events, and significant moments through commemorative stamps. Unlike other regular postage stamps (known as definitives), commemorative stamps are printed only once and are allowed to go out of circulation as their supply is used up. Which brings us some 161 Years after March 23, 1857 when Elisha Otis' 1st Elevator was installed at 488 Broadway, New York City.
Read MoreSkyscrapers and super tall buildings are a familiar sight now our modern cities and it is likely to increase in the following years as more people and multinational companies move into urban centres. The number of elevators servicing our vertical landscape makes them one of the most significant people and good movers in the transportation and logistics industry; because of that we’ve listed off the 10 biggest elevator companies in North America.
Read MoreEquipping the Eiffel Tower with safe passenger lifts was a major concern of the government commission overseeing the Paris Exposition. Although some visitors could be expected to climb to the first level, or even the second, lifts clearly had to be the main means of ascent.
Read MoreOriginally opened in 1979, the Atrium on Bay features OTIS panoramic traction elevators overlooking a 14 storey atrium. The building takes up most of the block bounded by Yonge, Dundas, Bay, and Edward Streets in Toronto's Commercial heart, just north of the Eaton Centre.
Read MoreDesigned by Eberhard Zeidler and Bregman + Hamann Architects as a multi-levelled, vaulted glass-ceiling galleria, modelled after the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, the Toronto Eatons Centre is a one of a kind mall in downtown Toronto.
Read MoreHere are twenty print ads by the Otis Elevator Company that are creatively brilliant. They have a solid concept topped off with great design which to date embody the brilliance of this North American company.
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