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 ...

<b>Tower Transit: A Game of Fast-Paced Elevator Control</b><br>By FogleBird<br><br><b>Story:</b> The citizens of City X have places to go and people to see. Without speedy transportation, these ...

The fastest elevator in the world was recently installed in China’s Shanghai Tower, the second-tallest building in the world, and it is faster than Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt. Designed by ...

As landmark skyscrapers grow ever higher, getting from the bottom to the top in a timely fashion becomes more of a problem. But there's little time wasted in Hitachi's ultra-high-speed elevator, which ...

In our era, that 15 minutes of fame everyone is entitled to seems to have become shorter and shorter. A recently completed elevator in the Shanghai Tower now claims the title of “World’s Fastest ...

A firework display marks the official opening of the Lotte World Tower building in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 2, 2017. The Lotte World Tower, with 123 floors over the 555-meter height ...

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) released an original “Tall Buildings in Numbers” (TBIN) research study entitled Vertical Transportation: Ascent & Acceleration. The study began ...

Sporting a silvery design inspired by traditional Korean ceramics, porcelain and calligraphy, Kohn Pedersen Fox's Lotte World Tower rises half a kilometer over Seoul and is the world's fifth-tallest ...

The Shanghai Tower is still the world’s second-tallest building, just a few hundred feet shorter than Dubai’s Burj Khalifa. It already has the tallest observation tower—not that that’s stopped people ...

More: Learn how to survive a plummeting elevator. We live in a vertical world. Despite suburban sprawl, most of Earth's population is packed into cities that have nowhere to go but up. With ...

A Columbia University study found that New York office workers spent a collective 5.9 years riding in elevators–and 16.6 years waiting for elevators. And that was just in 2010. ThyssenKrupp is ...