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50 HUDSON YARDS INCHES INTO SUPERTALL TERRITORY IN NYC
Starting to take shape next to 15, 30, 35 and 55 Hudson Yards in New York City’s (NYC) massive Hudson Yards development, 50 Hudson Yards has grown from 984 to 1,011 ft. tall, bringing it further into supertall territory, New York YIMBY reports. The source notes the approximately 60-story Norman Foster + Partners-designed tower is the last in Hudson Yards' first phase to take shape and the largest by floor area, containing 2.9 million sq. ft. of office space. Related Cos., Oxford Properties and Mitsui Fudosan announced a US$3.8-billion deal to finance its construction in fall 2017. BlackRock investment-management firm has signed a lease for 850,000 sq. ft. across the 15 lower floors. Completion is anticipated in early 2019.
LIBERTY ELEVATOR EXPERTS ACQUIRES D.C. COMPANY
Liberty Elevator Experts, based in Newark, Delaware, has acquired Technical Elevator Inspections of Washington, D.C. Technical Elevator Inspections performs compliance inspections throughout the District of Columbia and Maryland. Its consulting division handles design and engineering throughout the U.S. Liberty President Chris Dodds stated: "Technical Elevator Inspections’ proven consulting services have been used on landmark buildings across the country. We are proud to have their consulting and inspection team join us at Liberty."
BOY GETS HEAD STUCK ON SHOPPING-MALL ESCALATOR IN CHINA
Surveillance video captured an 11-year-old boy getting his head stuck between an escalator handrail and the wall at a mall in Chenzhou, China, Shanghaiist reported on August 24. The boy ran down the escalator and peered over the side when the incident happened. A mall employee pressed the emergency-stop button, and he was freed after only about 20 s. with minor neck bruising.
PLAN TO BUILD CHINA’S TALLEST TOWER SCALED DOWN BY 20%
An expansion of Tianhe Airport in Wuhan, China, approximately 25 km from Greenland Wuhan Center, has prompted the government to reduce the tower’s height from 636 m to 500 m to ensure aviation safety, Mingtiandi reports. In the works for more than a decade and set to contain hotels, apartments, shopping centers and offices, Greenland Wuhan Center was to become China’s tallest building. It will now be the country’s fifth tallest, well below the 632-m-tall Shanghai Tower and Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, the tower is heading toward completion, with more than 1,000 office and residential units up to the 85th floor approved for presale.
ELLIES AWARDS VOTING DEADLINE IS FRIDAY
Voting is open through August 31 for the first annual Ellies awards program. Each user (per Internet Protocol address) may vote for one company per category every 24 hr. on the 200-plus nominations. Winners in each of the six categories will be announced in the December 2018 issue of EW and receive an official Ellies statuette, and a custom "Winner" logo to use for print and on websites/emails. As thanks for their efforts, voters can sign up to receive a free four-month digital subscription to ELEVATOR WORLD (by clicking on “Claim your subscription!”).
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