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.
Read MoreRecently our team was contacted to inspect a 19th century building where the new owner had found a hand-powered (pull-rope) elevator. Completely in tact and fully preserved complete with original rope and pulley, platform and counterweight system along with painted on data tags, it was immediately identified as an Otis-Fensom Elevator from the 1890’s.
Read MoreConstrained by tradition, the incredible glossy green walls exudes old world sophistication in a recently refinished Chicago Westinghouse Elevator. The restoration project is part of a full club renovation and a perfect example of the transformative power of harmonizing the old with new.
Read MoreNeon 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.
Read MoreThe complete list of the worlds tallest towers, telecommunication transmitters, observation towers and elevator test towers from across the world.
Read MoreRanging from bright pink from neon lights, or softer cotton candy pinks , into deep pinks from Barbie sensationalists and fashionistas, the colour pink has powerful connotations and an almost stereotypical use assigned to the feminine. There are of course, many different shades and hues of the colour and while there are infinite interpretations by and for colour theorists to explore. Today we are leaving that all aside to celebrate the eye catching, show stopping, power of pink in these drool-worthy, seriously pink elevator designs inspired to make you rethink your next vertical commute.
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 MoreRem 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.
Read MoreWhile the details aren’t entirely public, it looks like the block is getting a street elevator. The proposed architectural appendage will provide direct access to a rooftop bar and break up the concrete monotony of the block.
Read MoreLocal firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz has conceived a glass elevator shaft to rise up the corner of a 346-metre-high skyscraper in Chicago. The all glass shaft along the exterior will house a pair of double-deck panoramic elevators giving the city an exciting new ride.
Read MoreHoused 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.
Read MoreDesign duo david/nicolas have crafted two exclusive elevator cabins using their signature design approach of combining high quality craftsmanship and old world nostalgia. The result is a juxtaposition of retro-futurism and a truly one of a kind elevator experience.
Read MoreExpo 2010 was held in Shanghai, China. The international event gave counties and corporations a stage to showcase their unique culture, identity and technology alongside local industry and innovation. The Finnish elevator behemoth Kone designed a three story glass shaft and complimentary elevator cab that shuttled people through the vertical landscape.
Read MoreAs the great Mies van der Rohe once said “Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space”. Architectural design stands out from other art forms because of both its functional and aesthetic role it plays in culture. The following famous architectural projects changed the way we think about buildings and how we move through them.
Read MoreThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. One of the most iconic buildings of the 20th century, was also one of his last. A reinforced concrete spiral unlike anything the world had seen secured Wright as the worlds greatest architect, but this masterpiece is missing one distinguishing detail that would have changed everything.
Read MoreBuilt on the very edge of a cliff overlooking the a 76m (250ft) drop, overlooking the surrounding city, the 611 room 80-metre-tall (260 ft) was the tallest buildings in the entire province of Quebec. To shuttle passengers and their luggage through the 18 storey building monolith, architects installed three gated manually operated elevators in the main lobby. More were added during two major expansions to the hotel, one in 1908–09, and another in 1920–24.
Read MoreIn the 1950s, the world's first outside glass elevator was built installed at the hotel to the worlds amusement. From its opening in 1927 through the 1950s, the El Cortez Hotel in San Diego, California. was the most glamorous apartment-hotel in San Diego. The large "El Cortez" sign, which is illuminated at night, was added in 1937 and could be seen for miles.
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 MoreEverywhere property owners and architects are embracing destination dispatch, an optimization technique used to improve elevator travel time by grouping passengers for the same destinations into the same elevators. Unlike conventional elevator control systems, destination dispatch control systems takes into account desired destination floors and the number of waiting passengers to significantly improve efficiency and convenience.
Read MoreNicknamed “The Vessel,” the dynamic structure that has captured the attention of media, designers, critics, as well as visiting and resident selfie hunters alike rose out of the multi-billion dollar Hudsons Yards development in New York in early 2019. At 150ft (45 metres), stairs climb up in every direction providing the public a one of a kind vertical climb unlike anything constructed before.
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