Arq.to Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 The Elevator Tower[images: Mitsubishi's new elevator testing tower in Japan]. Mitsubishi has opened a "test tower," built for experimental new elevator designs and technologies. It's "the world's tallest elevator testing tower" – and it's a functionalist monolith, standing at 567 feet. It's just one gigantic elevator shaft. The building will be used "to conduct research into high-speed elevators to serve the next generation of super-tall buildings," including stress tests on "new drives, gears, cables and other lift systems." I see at least one scene from Mission Impossible IV being filmed here – there's some sort of world-destroying nuclear device hidden above that vertical maze of moving platforms and our hero's got to find it... Or perhaps some future game world called Batman: Japan, in which the Caped Crusader lives and works entirely in various locations throughout the Japanese archipelago, burning incense and punching through Cor-Ten steel blocks in an underlit d?j? near the sea. One night he follows a lone criminal back to what looks like a vertical fortress... only it's not a fortress: it's this weird experimental elevator complex looming over him in the darkness. He enters. He hears machines. Hijinks ensue. Ler artigo... Arquitectura, Arquitetura, Construção, Engenharia e outros Espaço de Arquitetura Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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