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This might be the most dangerous elevator in the United States, but it also points to the future of skyscrapers.
At Chicago’s Marina City, Bertrand Goldberg used a bizarre continuously moving manlift to solve a specific architectural problem: how do you move people through 20 floors of spiral parking without sacrificing precious space in the tower core? That strange device opens onto a much bigger story about paternoster lifts, elevator safety, ADA accessibility, and the new rope-free systems that could change how tall buildings work. From Marina City’s “city within a city” logic to TK Elevator’s MULTI test tower in Germany, this video looks at how elevators shape building cores, usable floor area, density, circulation, and even the limits of vertical life.
If you’re into architecture, urban design, Chicago history, skyscrapers, engineering, Marina City, or the hidden systems inside buildings, this one is for you.
Let me know in the comments: would you ever ride a paternoster?
#Architecture #Chicago #MarinaCity #Elevator #Skyscraper
__Bibliography__
1. Marjanovic, Igor, and Katerina Ruedi Ray. Marina City: Bertrand Goldberg’s Urban Vision. Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
2. City of Chicago, Commission on Chicago Landmarks. Marina City landmark designation materials / report, 2015.
3. ASME. A17.1 / CSA B44: Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators.
4. U.S. Department of Justice. 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design, especially Section 407, “Elevators.”
5. Gray, Lee. “Hart’s Cyclic Elevator, Part I.” Elevator World, April 1, 2012.
6. Gray, Lee. “The Gradatory Elevator, Part One.” Elevator World, March 1, 2014.
7. Strakosch, George R., and Robert S. Caporale, eds. The Vertical Transportation Handbook. 4th ed. Wiley, 2010.
8. Barney, Gina, and Lutfi Al-Sharif. Elevator Traffic Handbook: Theory and Practice. 2nd ed. Routledge.
9. TK Elevator. “MULTI – A New Era of Mobility.”
10. TK Elevator. “The Test Tower.”
__Special Thanks__
Evan Montgomery — co-producer
Daniela Osorio Sanudo — graphics
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Architecture with Stewart is a YouTube journey exploring architecture’s deep and enduring stories in all their bewildering glory. Weekly videos and occasional live events breakdown a wide range of topics related to the built environment in order to increase their general understanding and advocate their importance in shaping the world we inhabit.
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Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company. His work has earned awards such as the Architecture Record Design Vanguard Award or the Young Architect’s Forum Award and has been featured in exhibitions such as the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Design Miami, as well as at the V&A Museum and Tate Modern in London. His writings can be found in the co-authored book Misguided Tactics for Propriety Calibration, published with the Graham Foundation, as well as essays in MONU magazine, the AIA Journal Manifest, Log, bracket, and the guest-edited issue of MAS Context on the topic of character architecture.
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Music provided by Epidemic Sound and includes music from Chromatic by Tom Fox
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