Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Shanghai: Elevator rides are not usually worth documenting. But when you step into the elevator at Shanghai Tower, people often pull out ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...