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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 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 ...

It's said that Japan has some of the fastest elevators in the world (something to do with different cultures having differing comfort and tolerance levels). Even so, the Yabafo might test the mettle ...

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 ...

The world is witnessing a massive boom in skyscraper construction, led by nations like China, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. This year alone, China built more skyscrapers than any country has ...