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 ...

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 ...

<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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) -- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mitsubishi has its own patented technology for vibration free high speed elevators. "We have developed a high velocity elevator with a speed of 18 meters per second (64 kilo meters per hour).

The 555-meter-tall Lotte World Tower opens setting world records. The Lotte World Tower double-decker elevator travels at 10 meters per second, making it the fastest of its kind in the world. The ...