Seoul - 63 Building

 

 Lorsque cet impressionnant bâtiment a été inauguré en 1985, il était le plus haut du monde en dehors des États-Unis d'Amérique, et a ensuite été dépassé par d'autres dans de nombreux autres pays. Il compte 63 étages, en réalité 60, mais 3 sont souterrains. Le bâtiment est actuellement le deuxième plus haut bâtiment doré au monde après le Grand Lisboa à Macao, dont je parlerai dans un avenir proche. Il s'agit du 7ème plus haut bâtiment de la ville et du plus haut gratte-ciel de l'île sur laquelle il est construit, l'île de Yeouido, qui est une île d'environ 8 kilomètres carrés. Le gratte-ciel me rappelle un peu le célèbre John Hancock Center de Chicago de par sa forme, même si logiquement il est très différent, et ce bâtiment est dédié exclusivement aux bureaux. et c'est quelques mètres plus bas. Le célèbre observatoire de ce gratte-ciel est situé au 63ème étage. Le bâtiment est impressionnant quand le soleil l'éclaire car, étant tout doré, il ressemble à un gigantesque soleil visible à des kilomètres à la ronde, un spectacle. Pour monter au belvédère public, vous devez emprunter un ascenseur en verre qui offre des vues spectaculaires depuis les premiers étages sur la rivière et la ville qui est reliée par des ponts à l'île où se trouve le géant doré. Au 63ème étage se trouve une galerie d'art spectaculaire avec différentes salles de tous styles, certaines très spectaculaires et surprenantes qui vous permettent de prendre de fabuleuses photos à mettre sur votre Instagram, une attraction de plus en plus de l'observatoire qui est la star de au 63ème étage. Une fois en haut, vous pouvez voir l'île parfaitement reliée par de nombreux ponts, vous pouvez également voir les embarcadères qui relient également l'île à l'autre rive. les autoroutes gigantesques ressemblent à des jouets vus du haut de ce gratte-ciel. Les montagnes de Séoul sont visibles au loin. Lorsque le temps est clair, la vue atteint l'infini. La vue est magnifique car elle est entourée d'eau au bord de la rivière, cela rend cet observatoire et ses vues charmantes de jour comme de nuit, cela me rappelle le Vietnam à Saigon.

When this impressive building was inaugurated in 1985, it was the tallest in the world outside of the United States of America. It was later surpassed by others in many other countries. It has 63 floors, actually 60, but 3 are underground. The building is currently the second second-tallest gold-clad building in the world after Grand Lisboa in Macau, which I will talk about in the near future. It is the 7th tallest building in the city and is the tallest skyscraper on the island on which it is built, Yeouido Island, which is an island of about 8 square kilometers. The skyscraper reminds me a little of the famous John Hancock Center in Chicago due to its shape, although logically it is very different, and this building is dedicated exclusively to offices. and it is a few meters lower. The famous observatory of this skyscraper is located on the 63rd floor. The building is impressive when the sun shines on it since, being all gold, it is like a gigantic sunlight that can be seen from miles around, a spectacle. To go up to the public viewpoint you have to take a glass elevator that offers spectacular views from the first floors of the river and the city that is linked with bridges to the island where the golden giant is located. On the 63rd floor there is an art gallery that is spectacular with different rooms of all styles, some very spectacular and surprising that allow you to take fabulous photos to put on your Instagram, one more attraction in addition to the observatory that is the star of the 63rd floor. Once up you can see the island perfectly joined by many bridges, you can also see the boat piers that also connect the island with the other shore. gigantic highways look like toys from the top of this skyscraper. The mountains of Seoul can be seen in the distance. When the day is clear the view reaches to infinity. The view is beautiful as it is surrounded by water by the river, it makes this observatory and its views charming both day and night, it reminds me of Vietnam in Saigon.

Quando questo imponente edificio fu inaugurato nel 1985, era il più alto del mondo al di fuori degli Stati Uniti d'America e in seguito fu superato da altri in molti altri paesi. Ha 63 piani, anzi 60, ma 3 sono sotterranei. L'edificio è attualmente il secondo edificio rivestito d'oro più alto del mondo dopo il Grand Lisboa a Macao, di cui parlerò nel prossimo futuro. È il 7° edificio più alto della città ed è il grattacielo più alto dell'isola su cui è costruito, Yeouido Island, che è un'isola di circa 8 chilometri quadrati. Il grattacielo mi ricorda un po' il famoso John Hancock Center di Chicago per la sua forma, anche se logicamente è molto diverso, e questo edificio è dedicato esclusivamente agli uffici. ed è qualche metro più in basso. Il famoso osservatorio di questo grattacielo si trova al 63esimo piano. L'edificio è impressionante quando il sole lo illumina perché, essendo tutto dorato, è come un gigantesco sole visibile a chilometri di distanza, uno spettacolo. Per salire al belvedere pubblico devi prendere un ascensore di vetro che offre viste spettacolari dai primi piani del fiume e della città che è collegata tramite ponti all'isola dove si trova il gigante d'oro. Al 63° piano c'è una galleria d'arte spettacolare con diverse sale di tutti gli stili, alcune molto spettacolari e sorprendenti che permettono di scattare foto favolose da mettere su Instagram, un'attrazione in più oltre all'osservatorio che è il protagonista di al 63° piano, una volta saliti si vede l'isola perfettamente unita da tanti ponti, si vedono anche i moli delle barche che collegano anche l'isola con l'altra sponda. le autostrade gigantesche sembrano giocattoli dalla cima di questo grattacielo. In lontananza si vedono le montagne di Seul. Quando la giornata è limpida la vista arriva all'infinito. La vista è bellissima in quanto è circondata dall'acqua in riva al fiume, rende questo osservatorio e le sue vedute affascinanti sia di giorno che di notte, mi ricorda il Vietnam a Saigon.

Dubai - Burj Khalifa

 

The tallest building in the world is this, the Burj Khalifa. This huge tower, super tall almost touching the sky, was inaugurated on January 4, 2010 and is still the tallest building in the world. The building logically has a very famous observatory, practically all the tourists who visit Dubai go up to the observatory, I would say that all of them. the view is logically dreamy, fabulous, wonderful. You can see the whole city at your feet, and at night it's like flying over the city in a plane. Wonderful, tourists take photos, videos, and have a good time and experience being at such a height and going out on the terrace, quite an experience. There are two types of observatories, one is the general one that most tourists usually go to, and a few floors above there is another viewpoint but you have to pay a little more. To go up both from one observatory to the other, you have to take an express elevator, up to the 123rd floor, once there, you have to use some local elevators to go up to the upper floors, among which is the smallest but highest observatory, located on the 148th floor. The building has other skylobbies in other areas, but they are already private, since the first part of the tower is dedicated to a hotel, and then we continue with private apartments, and finally with offices. The offices are located in the highest part of the tower, exactly from the 124th floor to the 154th floor. Of course we are talking about the highest office in the world, since there is no office that is located in any city in the world, 154 stories high, except in Dubai where everything is possible, like having your workplace on the 154th floor! ¡¡¡ As I have said, the building has several uses, it would be called a used mixed building, as examples we have many buildings in the world that are partly used as a hotel, partly for private residences and partly for offices, in this case the Burj Khalifa has all of this, but big, since as I said, there is no building that has offices as tall as this one. Let's discover this giant a little more. The Hotel is located on the lower floors of the tower, on the intermediate floors are the apartments and on the upper floors are the offices, now let's see in detail the distribution of this mini city. The entrance to the hotel is completely independent from the rest of the building. In the hotel lobby there are two types of elevators, some that go to the first and middle floors of the hotel, and others that go to the highest area of the hotel, up to the first floor. 39, which is the top floor of the hotel, proper. In the hotel there are rooms, suites and apartments. From the 40th floor of the tower there are two mechanical and service floors, and we have to go to the 43rd floor to find the first skylobby, which is accessed with non-stop elevators, directly from the ground floor to the 43rd floor, These express elevators are used only by residents who go to their respective apartments located from the 44th to the 72nd floor included. But the residences do not end at floor 72, they continue to much higher. On floor 76 we find another skylobby that is accessed with express elevators for the exclusive use of residents on the upper floors of apartments, that is, from floor 77 to floor 108 , the last floor with apartments. From floor 111 to floor 154 we find the offices. To go up to these offices, you have to take the express elevators to the 123rd floor, and there use the local elevators. this building has 3 skylobbies. The busiest is the one on the 123rd floor, since it is the one used by hundreds of people daily to go up to the observatory and the offices. The other skylobbies are quieter as they are only used by residents, although I think it is also possible to go up to the spas on those floors, but I'm not too sure. Up to the 163rd floor there are mechanical floors that neither residents nor tourists have access to, they are for internal use, but they are floors that can be serviced, so the building officially has 163 floors, having the title of building tallest in the world. the shanghai tower has 128 floors, it comes close, but not to the point of having 163 floors. really impressive building.

L'edificio più alto del mondo è questo, il Burj Khalifa. Questa enorme torre, altissima quasi a toccare il cielo, è stata inaugurata il 4 gennaio 2010 ed è tuttora l'edificio più alto del mondo. L'edificio logicamente ha un osservatorio molto famoso, praticamente tutti i turisti che visitano Dubai salgono all'osservatorio, direi che tutti. la vista è logicamente sognante, favolosa, meravigliosa. Puoi vedere l'intera città ai tuoi piedi e di notte è come sorvolare la città su un aereo. Meraviglioso, i turisti scattano foto, video e si divertono e sperimentano essere a tale altezza e uscire sulla terrazza, una vera esperienza. Ci sono due tipi di osservatori, uno è quello generale a cui va di solito la maggior parte dei turisti, e qualche piano sopra c'è un altro punto di osservazione ma devi pagare un po' di più. Per salire sia da un osservatorio all'altro, bisogna prendere un ascensore rapido, fino al 123° piano, una volta lì, bisogna utilizzare degli ascensori locali per salire ai piani superiori, tra cui il più piccolo ma più alto osservatorio, situato al piano 148. L'edificio ha altri skylobbies in altre zone, ma sono già privati, poiché la prima parte della torre è dedicata ad un hotel, e poi si continua con appartamenti privati, e infine con uffici. Gli uffici si trovano nella parte più alta della torre, esattamente dal 124° al 154° piano. Naturalmente stiamo parlando dell'ufficio più alto del mondo, visto che non esiste un ufficio che si trovi in ​​nessuna città del mondo, alto 154 piani, se non a Dubai dove tutto è possibile, come avere il proprio posto di lavoro al 154esimo piano! ¡¡

Come ho detto l'edificio ha diverse destinazioni d'uso, si direbbe un edificio usato misto, come esempi abbiamo molti edifici nel mondo che sono in parte adibiti ad hotel, in parte a residenze private e in parte ad uffici, in questo caso il Il Burj Khalifa ha tutto questo, ma grande, perché come dicevo non c'è edificio che abbia uffici alti come questo. Scopriamo un po' di più questo gigante. L'Hotel si trova ai piani inferiori della torre, ai piani intermedi si trovano gli appartamenti e ai piani superiori gli uffici, vediamo ora nel dettaglio la distribuzione di questa mini città. L'ingresso all'hotel è completamente indipendente dal resto dell'edificio, nella hall dell'hotel sono presenti due tipi di ascensori, alcuni che portano al primo e al piano intermedio dell'hotel, altri che portano alla zona più alta della l'albergo, fino al primo piano 39, che è l'ultimo piano dell'albergo vero e proprio. Nell'hotel ci sono camere, suite e appartamenti. Dal 40° piano della torre ci sono due piani meccanici e di servizio, e dobbiamo andare al 43° piano per trovare il primo skylobby, a cui si accede con ascensori no-stop, direttamente dal piano terra al 43° piano, questi gli ascensori rapidi sono utilizzati solo dai residenti che si recano nei rispettivi appartamenti situati dal 44° al 72° piano compresi. Ma le residenze non si esauriscono al piano 72, continuano fino a molto più in alto. Al piano 76 troviamo un altro skylobby a cui si accede con ascensori rapidi ad uso esclusivo dei residenti ai piani superiori degli appartamenti, cioè dal piano 77 al piano 108. Dal piano 111 al piano 154 troviamo gli uffici. Per salire in questi uffici bisogna prendere gli ascensori rapidi fino al 123° piano e lì utilizzare gli ascensori locali. questo edificio ha 3 skylobbies. La più frequentata è quella del 123° piano, poiché è quella utilizzata quotidianamente da centinaia di persone per salire all'osservatorio e agli uffici. Gli altri skylobbies sono più silenziosi in quanto sono utilizzati solo dai residenti, anche se penso che sia possibile salire anche alle terme su quei piani, ma non ne sono troppo sicuro. Fino al 163° piano ci sono pavimenti meccanici a cui né i residenti né i turisti hanno accesso, sono per uso interno, ma sono piani che possono essere serviti, quindi l'edificio ha ufficialmente 163 piani, avendo il titolo di edificio più alto del mondo . la shanghai tower ha 128 piani, ci si avvicina, ma non al punto di avere 163 piani. edificio davvero impressionante, molto .

Le plus haut bâtiment du monde est celui-ci, le Burj Khalifa. Cette immense tour, super haute touchant presque le ciel, a été inaugurée le 4 janvier 2010 et est toujours le plus haut bâtiment du monde. Le bâtiment possède logiquement un observatoire très réputé, pratiquement tous les touristes qui visitent Dubaï montent à l'observatoire, je dirais que tous.la vue est logiquement rêveuse, fabuleuse, merveilleuse.Vous pouvez voir toute la ville à vos pieds, et la nuit c'est comme survoler la ville en avion.Merveilleux, les touristes prennent des photos, des vidéos, et passent un bon moment et vivent l'expérience d'être à une telle hauteur et de sortir sur la terrasse, toute une expérience.Il existe deux types d'observatoires, l'un est le général auquel la plupart des touristes se rendent habituellement, et quelques étages au-dessus il y a un autre point de vue mais il faut payer un peu plus.Pour monter à la fois d'un observatoire à l'autre, il faut prendre un ascenseur express, jusqu'au 123ème étage, une fois là-bas, il faut utiliser des ascenseurs locaux pour monter aux étages supérieurs, parmi lesquels se trouve le plus petit mais le plus haut observatoire, situé au 148ème étage.Le bâtiment a d'autres skylobbies dans d'autres zones, mais ils sont déjà privés, puisque la première partie de la tour est dédiée à un hôtel, puis nous continuons avec des appartements privés, et enfin avec des bureaux.Les bureaux sont situés dans la partie la plus haute de la tour, exactement du 124ème au 154ème étage.Bien sûr, nous parlons du bureau le plus haut du monde, puisqu'il n'y a aucun bureau qui se trouve dans n'importe quelle ville du monde, haut de 154 étages, sauf à Dubaï où tout est possible, comme avoir son lieu de travail au 154e étage ! Comme je l'ai dit, le bâtiment a plusieurs usages, on l'appellerait un bâtiment mixte utilisé, à titre d'exemples, nous avons de nombreux bâtiments dans le monde qui sont en partie utilisés comme hôtel, en partie pour des résidences privées et en partie pour des bureaux, dans ce cas le Burj Khalifa a tout cela, mais en grand, puisque comme je l'ai dit, il n'y a aucun bâtiment qui a des bureaux aussi hauts que celui-ci. Découvrons un peu plus ce géant. L'hôtel est situé aux étages inférieurs de la tour, aux étages intermédiaires se trouvent les appartements et aux étages supérieurs se trouvent les bureaux, voyons maintenant en détail la distribution de cette mini ville. L'entrée de l'hôtel est complètement indépendante du reste du bâtiment.Dans le hall de l'hôtel, il y a deux types d'ascenseurs, certains qui vont au premier et au deuxième étage de l'hôtel, et d'autres qui vont à la zone la plus élevée de l'hôtel, jusqu'au premier étage 39, qui est le dernier étage de l'hôtel proprement dit. Dans l'hôtel il y a des chambres, des suites et des appartements. Du 40e étage de la tour, il y a deux étages mécaniques et de service, et nous devons aller au 43e étage pour trouver le premier skylobby, auquel on accède avec des ascenseurs non-stop, directement du rez-de-chaussée au 43e étage, Ces les ascenseurs express ne sont utilisés que par les résidents qui se rendent dans leurs appartements respectifs situés du 44e au 72e étage inclus. Mais les résidences ne s'arrêtent pas au 72e étage, elles continuent bien plus haut. Au 76e étage, nous trouvons un autre skylobby auquel on accède avec des ascenseurs express à l'usage exclusif des résidents des étages supérieurs des appartements, c'est-à-dire du 77e au 108e étage. Du 111e au 154e étage, nous trouvons les bureaux. Pour monter dans ces bureaux, il faut prendre les ascenseurs express jusqu'au 123ème étage, et là utiliser les ascenseurs locaux. ce bâtiment a 3 skylobbies. La plus fréquentée est celle du 123e étage, puisque c'est celle qu'empruntent quotidiennement des centaines de personnes pour monter à l'observatoire et aux bureaux. Les autres skylobbies sont plus calmes car ils ne sont utilisés que par les résidents, même si je pense qu'il est également possible de monter dans les spas de ces étages, mais je ne suis pas trop sûr. Jusqu'au 163e étage, il y a des étages mécaniques auxquels ni les résidents ni les touristes n'ont accès, ils sont à usage interne, mais ce sont des étages qui peuvent être desservis, donc le bâtiment a officiellement 163 étages, ayant le titre de bâtiment le plus haut du monde . la tour de shanghai a 128 étages, elle s'en rapproche, mais pas au point d'avoir 163 étages. bâtiment vraiment impressionnant.

 

Kuala Lumpur - Merdeka 118

The night in Kuala Lumpur breathes softly beneath Merdeka 118, an ocean of lights stretching to the horizon, shimmering like constellations fallen to earth. The tower rises through the darkness like a blade of glass and silver, impossibly tall, impossibly calm — a silent guardian of the city.

Inside, the panoramic elevator waits.

Its doors close with a hushed whisper.

And then — ascent.

The city begins to fall away.

The glass walls reveal everything. Streets unravel into glowing ribbons. Cars become fireflies. Towers shrink into glowing sculptures. In seconds, gravity feels like a memory as the elevator climbs at lightning speed, slicing through layers of night.

Higher.

Faster.

Brighter.

The skyline transforms into a luminous sea — millions of lights pulsing like a living organism. From this height, Kuala Lumpur feels endless, a vast glowing metropolis floating in darkness. It recalls the view from Chicago’s Willis Tower — that same cinematic vastness, where the city becomes a galaxy and you are suspended among the stars.

Wind hums faintly around the glass.

The world keeps shrinking.

And then — the observatory.

The doors open to silence and awe.

Above half a kilometer in the sky, the city lies entirely at your feet. Towers sparkle like crystal spires. Highways curve like rivers of gold. The night stretches in every direction, boundless and breathtaking.

Here, time slows.

People speak in whispers.

Hearts beat a little faster.

Eyes widen.

The lights flicker endlessly below, a hypnotic ocean of brilliance — and for a moment, you’re no longer just visiting a building.

You’re floating above a living city.

Merdeka 118 doesn’t simply offer a view.

It offers flight.

The second tallest building in the world is located in Kuala Lumpur. The tower has no less than 118 floors. This giant of the city of Kuala Lumpur is mainly dedicated to offices, an upper part of the tower also houses a hotel and some upper floors are open to the public, a fabulous restaurant with no less fabulous views delights diners from both day and night. The hotel offers those who sleep at such a height the chance to wake up seeing the entire city at their feet or fall asleep seeing millions of lights, quite a spectacle. The tower has direct access to both the monorail and the city subway, so the hundreds of employees who climb the tower do not even need to go outside to go to the building, something similar to several skyscrapers that are being built in different parts of the country. world. The building has a wonderful public observatory that is accessed through two panoramic elevators that go up at lightning speed and in less than a minute you are at the top, no less than half a kilometer high. The visit to the observatory is a truly unforgettable experience from the first moment, because unlike other observatories that have interior elevators, and the passenger does not see anything until they reach the floor of the observatory, in this case it is the opposite, from the ground floor to the 118th floor, the passenger can see the elevator going up at full speed because the panel where the elevator is located is made of glass, so the view is simply spectacular. The 118 floors are divided into low, medium and high sectors. The lower area is where offices are located up to the 23rd floor, this area is served by direct elevators from the ground floor. From the 24th to the 39th floor are the floors dedicated to offices in the second upper area of the building. You can also go up directly from the ground floor in the corresponding elevators. From the 43rd to the 74th floor is the upper office area. To go to these floors you have to take an express elevator directly to the skylobby on the 40th floor. On this floor, you have to change elevators and take local elevators to go up to the upper floors. of offices. On the 75th floor is the hotel's skylobby. To go to this skylobby there is another direct elevator from the hotel reception located on the 3rd floor. Once on the 75th floor, you have to change elevators to go up to the rooms located on the floors. 100 to 112. On the 76th floor there is another skylobby where you have to go to be able to go up to the offices located in the highest area of the tower, offices on floors 78 to 96. From the 97th to the 112th floor is the hotel. From the 100th floor onwards there are the rooms but on the 97th to 99th floors there are hotel services such as a gym, rooms, restaurant areas, etc. The 114th floor has a luxury restaurant. The 115th floor is where the observatory is located, although it is called 118, it is actually on the 115th and 116th floors of the tower. On the 118th floor itself, there is a VIP area. which is precisely the last floor that visitors can go up to. The 99th floor houses the swimming pool.  

Chicago - Willis Tower

  

When the Willis Tower was conceived in the early 1970s, its architects and engineers faced a challenge no office building had ever encountered at such scale: how to move tens of thousands of people efficiently through more than one hundred floors without turning the structure into a solid block of elevator shafts.

What they created was not merely an elevator system — it was a fully engineered vertical city.

At the time of its completion, the tower contained an astonishing 103 elevators, including 14 double-deck elevators, a highly advanced technology for the era. These double-deck cabs — two elevator cars stacked one on top of the other — allowed twice the number of passengers to move using the same shaft space, dramatically reducing how much of the building had to be sacrificed to vertical circulation.

In total, 97 elevator cabs served office floors, occupying 83 shafts, an extraordinary feat of spatial efficiency for such a massive structure.

But the true innovation was the introduction of the sky lobby system, inspired by urban transit networks.

Rather than sending elevators directly from the ground floor to every office level — which would have required hundreds more shafts — engineers divided the tower into vertical zones.

From the main lobby, passengers could ride express double-deck elevators straight to major transfer hubs located on the 33rd/34th floors and again on the 66th/67th floors. These sky lobbies functioned like vertical subway stations, where people transferred to local elevator banks serving the surrounding floors.

All office floors from the 34th to the 103rd story were reached only through these sky lobbies, making the system both faster and far more space-efficient.

In addition, two high-speed elevators traveled directly from the lobby to the Skydeck on the 103rd floor, carrying millions of visitors to one of the most famous observation decks in the world.

Even logistics were carefully engineered.

The tower included six freight elevators, one of which traveled the full height of the building — over 1,440 feet (440 meters) — serving every single floor. This elevator was also designed for emergency use, reserved for the Chicago Fire Department during fires or evacuations, while other elevators could be remotely controlled from the 33rd floor to assist rescue operations.

Complementing the elevators were 16 escalators, including dramatic double-height escalators connecting the main lobby with lower mezzanine levels, and another set linking the 33rd and 34th floors within the first sky lobby.

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At the time of construction, this system was nothing short of revolutionary.

It allowed a megastructure with over 4 million square feet of office space to function smoothly, efficiently, and safely — something previously thought impossible at such heights.

Even today, decades later, the Willis Tower’s elevator design remains a benchmark in skyscraper engineering. Engineers from around the world still study its sky lobby concept, double-deck technology, and traffic flow modeling as foundational principles of modern supertall buildings.

Each year, the elevators carry nearly six million passengers, silently moving an entire working population up and down the tower — just like streets and subways move a city horizontally.

The Willis Tower is not merely tall.

It is a living vertical metropolis — and its elevator system is the infrastructure that makes that city breathe.

Aujourd'hui, j'aimerais écrire sur un bâtiment qui me fascine. Actuellement, il existe déjà de nombreux autres bâtiments aussi hauts que celui-ci, voire plus grands. Par exemple, la tour la plus haute se trouve à Dubaï, suivie du gratte-ciel récemment achevé à Kuala Lumpur, qui curieusement, dans cette ville il y a quelques années, les célèbres tours Petronas ont été construites et ce sont elles qui ont arraché le titre de plus haut bâtiment. haut de la tour willis. Deuxièmement, le troisième bâtiment le plus haut du monde à ce jour est la tour de Shanghai. puis il y a plusieurs bâtiments plus hauts que la tour willis et ils sont aussi en Chine, à séoul, et même l'actuel One world trade center à new york, est plus haut que la tour willis, à cause de l'antenne. puisqu'il a quelques mètres de moins si l'on s'en tient à la hauteur du dernier étage. la vérité est que la tour willis a exactement 110 étages. et le seul centre commercial mondial en compte 94, mais il est également plus tôt dans le classement des bâtiments les plus hauts, en raison de l'antenne. Comme la tour Petronas, elles sont supérieures non pas à cause du nombre d'étages mais à cause des mâts qui font partie de la structure, ce ne sont pas à proprement parler des antennes, ajoutées plus tard, c'est pourquoi elles ont été conjointement qualifiées de plus haut bâtiment du monde et a ainsi dépassé la tour willis. mais aujourd'hui je vais parler de la tour willis, qui est une ville dans la ville.

Ce dessin que j'ai réalisé moi-même peut nous donner une idée de ce qu'est le transport vertical dans ce gigantesque bâtiment. Ce n’est pas absolument exact. mais c'est assez clair pour nous donner une idée. J'ai peint les ascenseurs express en jaune. Il existe un nombre important d'ascenseurs qui vont directement du rez-de-chaussée aux étages intermédiaires, c'est-à-dire que n'importe quel étage allant du 33ème étage jusqu'au bas, vous pouvez accéder à n'importe lequel d'entre eux directement depuis le rez-de-chaussée. Par contre, si la destination vient du 33ème étage, alors il faut prendre un ascenseur express, qui est l'une des lignes jaunes, précisément celle de gauche, et ce groupe de 6 ascenseurs va directement au 33ème et 34ème étages, Une fois sur place, les passagers doivent changer les batteries de l'ascenseur pour monter aux différents étages 40, 50, 60, etc. Si la destination est le 70ème étage par exemple, alors vous devez prendre un autre groupe de 6 ascenseurs express depuis le rez-de-chaussée qui cette fois en moins d'une minute parcourent les 66 étages qui mènent au deuxième skylobby du bâtiment. Une fois sur place, à l'aide d'un escalier roulant, les passagers doivent monter jusqu'au 68ème étage et y localiser la batterie d'ascenseurs qui les mènera aux étages correspondants, c'est-à-dire aux 74ème, 85ème, 93ème, 100ème, etc. Ils doivent toujours utiliser le skylobby au 66ème étage. Le bâtiment dispose également de deux ascenseurs très directs du sous-sol au 103ème étage, où se trouve le célèbre observatoire public, qui est l'une des attractions touristiques les plus populaires de les États Unis. Logiquement, il existe également des ascenseurs directs et avec des arrêts à absolument tous les étages, mais ce sont des ascenseurs de service utilisés par les employés des services internes de ce géant. J'espère que vous avez apprécié cette explication et qu'avec mon dessin c'est un peu plus clair.

La construction a commencé en 1971 et en 1973, les premiers employés ont commencé à entrer. à peine deux ans et le géant était déjà construit. Le bâtiment possède le plus grand nombre d'ascenseurs dans un bâtiment au rez-de-chaussée. de là, les ascenseurs vont directement aux skylobbies situés aux étages supérieurs. un système qui a déjà été utilisé au 875 north michigan avenue et dans les célèbres tours jumelles de new york. dans la tour willis, il y a des ascenseurs directs depuis le rez-de-chaussée uniquement si vous devez vous rendre aux 28 premiers étages. donc votre bureau est au 28ème étage, vous pouvez aller tout droit, sans avoir à prendre deux ascenseurs. Il faut également garder à l'esprit que dans ce gratte-ciel, il y a 14 ascenseurs avec un système à double cabine. Ce sont les fameux skylobbies, qui reçoivent ces ascenseurs super rapides, directs, et sans aucun arrêt, sauf au 33e étage et au 66e étage.Une fois là-bas, il faut changer d'ascenseur, par un petit escalator, et prendre les ascenseurs locaux jusqu'au niveau supérieur. étages. Vous ne pouvez passer des étages 34 à 103 que si vous utilisez les ascenseurs express au préalable. il n'est pas possible d'aller directement de la rue, encore moins à des étages si hauts qu'ils ne sont desservis que par des ascenseurs express. Il n'y a que deux ascenseurs directs au 103ème étage, mais c'est exclusif pour les touristes qui visitent l'observatoire situé à cet étage.

Au 67ème étage, il y a un restaurant mais c'est pour les clients du bâtiment ou les rendez-vous précédents pour des événements spéciaux. les vues sont fabuleuses. Je pense aussi qu'au 103ème étage on peut dîner en réservant à l'avance, plus d'informations sur les pages web respectives. ce que j'ai vu est fabuleux et les vues spectaculaires pendant que l'on dîne.

Today I would like to write about a building that fascinates me. Currently, there are already many other buildings as tall as this one, or even taller. For example, the tallest tower is in Dubai, followed by the recently completed skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur, which oddly enough, in this city a few years ago the famous Petronas Towers were built and it was they who tore off the title of tallest building. top of willis tower. Secondly, the third tallest building in the world today is the Shanghai Tower. then there are several buildings taller than the Willis Tower and they are also in China, in Seoul, and even the current One World Trade Center in New York, is taller than the Willis Tower, because of the antenna. since it is a few meters less if we stick to the height of the top floor. the truth is that the willis tower has exactly 110 floors. and the world's only shopping center has 94, but it is also earlier in the ranking of tallest buildings, due to the antenna. Like the Petronas Tower, they are superior not because of the number of floors but because of the masts which are part of the structure, they are not strictly speaking antennas, added later, which is why they were jointly qualified as the tallest building in the world and thus surpassed the Willis Tower. but today i'm going to talk about willis tower, which is a city within a city.

This drawing that I made myself can give us an idea of what vertical transportation is like in this gigantic building. This is not absolutely correct. but it's clear enough to give us an idea. I painted the express elevators yellow. There are a significant number of elevators that go directly from the ground floor to the middle floors, that is, any floor from the 33rd floor to the bottom, you can access any which of them directly from the ground floor. On the other hand, if the destination comes from the 33rd floor, then you have to take an express elevator, which is one of the yellow lines, precisely the one on the left, and this group of 6 elevators goes directly to the 33rd and 34th floors, Once on instead, passengers must change the elevator batteries to go up to different floors 40, 50, 60, etc. If the destination is the 70th floor for example, then you must take another group of 6 express elevators from the ground floor which this time in less than a minute travel the 66 floors which lead to the second skylobby of the building. Once there, using an escalator, passengers must go up to the 68th floor and locate the battery of elevators which will take them to the corresponding floors, that is to say the 74th, 85th , 93rd, 100th, etc. They must always use the skylobby on the 66th floor. The building also has two very direct elevators from the basement to the 103rd floor, where the famous public observatory is located, which is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the United States. Logically, there are also direct elevators and with stops on absolutely all floors, but these are service elevators used by employees of the internal services of this giant. I hope you enjoyed this explanation and that with my drawing it is a little clearer.

Construction began in 1971 and in 1973 the first employees began to enter. barely two years and the giant was already built. The building has the most elevators in a ground floor building. from there the elevators go directly to the skylobbies on the upper floors. a system that has already been used at 875 north michigan avenue and in the famous twin towers of new york. In Willis Tower there are direct elevators from the ground floor only if you need to go to the first 28 floors. so your office is on the 28th floor, you can go straight, without having to take two elevators. It should also be borne in mind that in this skyscraper there are 14 elevators with a double cabin system. These are the famous skylobbies, which receive these super fast, direct elevators, and without any stopping, except on the 33rd floor and the 66th floor. Once there, you have to change elevators, by a small escalator, and take the local elevators to the upper level. floors. You can only go from floors 34 to 103 if you use the express elevators first. it is not possible to go directly from the street, much less to floors so high that they are only served by express elevators. There are only two direct elevators to the 103rd floor, but it is exclusive for tourists who visit the observatory located on this floor.

On the 67th floor there is a restaurant but it is for guests of the building or previous appointments for special events. the views are fabulous. I also think that on the 103rd floor you can dine by booking in advance, more information on the respective web pages. what I saw was fabulous and the views were spectacular while we dined.

Oggi vorrei scrivere di un edificio che mi affascina. Attualmente esistono già molti altri edifici alti quanto questo, o anche di più. Ad esempio, la torre più alta è a Dubai, seguita dal grattacielo recentemente completato a Kuala Lumpur, che, stranamente, in questa città qualche anno fa furono costruite le famose Petronas Towers e furono loro a strappare il titolo di edificio più alto. cima della torre di Willis. In secondo luogo, il terzo edificio più alto del mondo oggi è la Shanghai Tower. poi ci sono diversi edifici più alti della Willis Tower e sono anche in Cina, a Seoul, e anche l'attuale One World Trade Center di New York, è più alto della Willis Tower, per via dell'antenna. poiché è qualche metro in meno se ci atteniamo all'altezza dell'ultimo piano. la verità è che la Willis Tower ha esattamente 110 piani. e l'unico centro commerciale al mondo ne ha 94, ma è anche primo nella classifica degli edifici più alti, grazie all'antenna. Come la Torre Petronas, sono superiori non per il numero di piani ma per i tralicci che fanno parte della struttura, non sono propriamente antenne, aggiunte in seguito, motivo per cui sono stati congiuntamente qualificati come l'edificio più alto del mondo. mondo e quindi superò la Willis Tower. ma oggi parlerò di Willis Tower, che è una città nella città.

Questo disegno che ho realizzato io stesso può darci un'idea di come sia il trasporto verticale in questo gigantesco edificio. Ciò non è assolutamente corretto. ma è abbastanza chiaro per darci un'idea. Ho dipinto di giallo gli ascensori rapidi. Ci sono un numero significativo di ascensori che vanno direttamente dal piano terra ai piani intermedi, cioè a qualsiasi piano dal 33° piano fino al fondo, a ciascuno di essi è possibile accedere direttamente dal piano terra. Se invece la destinazione arriva dal 33° piano, allora bisogna prendere un ascensore rapido, che è una delle linee gialle, precisamente quello a sinistra, e questo gruppo di 6 ascensori va direttamente al 33° e 34° piano, Una volta saliti invece i passeggeri devono cambiare le batterie dell'ascensore per salire ai diversi piani 40, 50, 60, ecc. Se la destinazione è ad esempio il 70° piano, allora bisogna prendere un altro gruppo di 6 ascensori rapidi da terra piano che questa volta in meno di un minuto percorrono i 66 piani che conducono al secondo skylobby dell'edificio. Una volta lì, utilizzando una scala mobile, i passeggeri dovranno salire al 68° piano e individuare la batteria di ascensori che li porterà ai piani corrispondenti, cioè il 74°, 85°, 93°, 100°, ecc. Dovranno sempre utilizzare la skylobby al 66esimo piano. L'edificio dispone inoltre di due ascensori molto diretti dal seminterrato al 103° piano, dove si trova il famoso osservatorio pubblico, una delle attrazioni turistiche più popolari degli Stati Uniti. Logicamente ci sono anche ascensori diretti e con fermate assolutamente su tutti i piani, ma si tratta di ascensori di servizio utilizzati dai dipendenti dei servizi interni di questo colosso. Spero che questa spiegazione vi sia piaciuta e che con il mio disegno sia un po' più chiara.

La costruzione iniziò nel 1971 e nel 1973 iniziarono ad entrare i primi dipendenti. appena due anni e il gigante era già costruito. L'edificio ha il maggior numero di ascensori in un edificio al piano terra. da lì gli ascensori portano direttamente alle skylobbies dei piani superiori. un sistema già utilizzato all'875 north michigan avenue e nelle famose torri gemelle di new york. Nella Willis Tower ci sono ascensori diretti dal piano terra solo se devi andare ai primi 28 piani. quindi il tuo ufficio è al 28° piano, puoi andare dritto, senza dover prendere due ascensori. Va inoltre tenuto presente che in questo grattacielo sono presenti 14 ascensori con sistema a doppia cabina. Sono le famose skylobbies, alle quali accedono questi ascensori super veloci, diretti e senza alcuna fermata, tranne che al 33° e al 66° piano. Una volta lì, devi cambiare ascensore, tramite una piccola scala mobile, e prendere gli ascensori locali fino al piano superiore. piani. Puoi passare dai piani 34 al 103 solo se usi prima gli ascensori rapidi. non è possibile accedere direttamente dalla strada e tanto meno ai piani così alti da essere serviti solo da ascensori rapidi. Ci sono solo due ascensori diretti al 103° piano, ma è riservato ai turisti che visitano l'osservatorio situato su questo piano.

Al 67° piano è presente un ristorante ma è riservato agli ospiti dell'edificio o previo appuntamento per eventi speciali. i panorami sono favolosi. Penso anche che al 103° piano si possa cenare prenotando in anticipo, maggiori informazioni nelle rispettive pagine web. quello che ho visto è stato favoloso e i panorami erano spettacolari mentre cenavamo.

Los Angeles - Wildshire Grand Center

Le bâtiment le plus haut de Californie est ce magnifique bâtiment récemment construit. Le bâtiment présente un agencement magnifique qui le rend idéal pour un usage de bureau et d'hôtel. Le gratte-ciel ne se distingue pas seulement dans le ciel de Los Angeles par son beau design avec son verre, qui est un spectacle à admirer, surtout au coucher du soleil depuis la périphérie de la ville. Ce géant californien est le 15e plus haut bâtiment des États-Unis. et l'un des immeubles de services hôteliers et de bureaux au monde. La tour de la banque américaine est un peu plus basse que cela, elle occupe donc la deuxième place dans la liste des bâtiments les plus hauts, bien qu'ils aient le même nombre d'étages. 73 étages au total. Un autre jour, je parlerai de l'US Bank Tower à Los Angeles, qui curieusement est mon bâtiment préféré depuis de nombreuses années, même si je reconnais que lorsque ce fabuleux et magnifique bâtiment a été inauguré, il est aussi devenu mon bâtiment préféré, ce n'est pas facile décider lequel est le numéro un sur ma liste personnelle et plus d'un dans tous les États-Unis car il y a de si beaux bâtiments qu'il est très difficile de décider, mais bien sûr je suis sûr d'une chose, ce Wilshire Grand Centre est vraiment beau.

Le bâtiment dispose de salles de conférence, de gymnases, de piscines, de magasins et d'autres services aux premiers étages, comme dans de nombreux hôtels. les bureaux proprement dits commencent aux étages 11 à 29 avec des ascenseurs directs vers ces étages de bureaux. les étages 31 à 68 sont destinés à un hôtel. l'étage 69 est destiné à un restaurant. L'étage 70 abrite la réception de l'hôtel et un bar. c'est au 71ème étage qu'il faut se rendre pour se rendre au célèbre et célèbre restaurant La Boucherie qui, comme vous pouvez l'imaginer, propose des visites divines de la ville pendant que les convives dégustent une cuisine sensationnelle.

le 73ème étage est l'endroit où de nombreux touristes et personnes qui séjournent à l'hôtel même dans les bureaux montent pour profiter des vues fabuleuses sur la ville surtout la nuit et où se trouve le bar qui est devenu mondialement connu comme l'un des bars en plein air libre de mas altura del mundo s'appelle spire 73, c'est un bar célèbre dans le monde entier pour ses cocktails et il ouvre tous les jours jusqu'à minuit. il y a un espace détente pour profiter des calopsittes, vous pouvez également manger ou dîner, avec une vue magnifique sur la ville, surtout la nuit, c'est inoubliable et l'une des réussites de ce lieu fabuleux. comme vous pouvez l'imaginer, le célèbre panneau indiquant Hollywood est parfaitement visible depuis cet hôtel et logiquement précisément depuis le sommet de cette tour dans ce bar unique qui, je crois, si je ne me trompe pas, est le plus haut bar en plein air du monde. les autoroutes gigantesques uniques au monde avec autant de voies toujours remplies de voitures sont très proches de la tour et il est impressionnant de voir les milliers de voitures aller et venir comme de petites voitures miniatures, un spectacle impressionnant de jour comme de nuit. Je me souviens qu'une fois que j'utilisais ces autoroutes et que j'étais toujours impressionné par le nombre immense de voies dans chaque direction, je dirais que je n'avais jamais vu une autoroute aussi grande. le bâtiment est impressionnant vu de n'importe quel point, de loin, et surtout quand on est à la base, c'est impressionnant de voir la flèche au sommet de cette belle tour de verre. il y a un couloir avec des ascenseurs qui vont du 31ème au 52ème étage au 70ème étage, je m'explique. la réception de l'hôtel est au 70ème étage, il faut emprunter au rez-de-chaussée, un des 4 ascenseurs express double cabine qui montent à toute vitesse jusqu'au 70ème étage. une fois sur place et après s'être inscrit, il faut se rendre dans un couloir d'où partent les différents ascenseurs pour "descendre" vers les différents étages de l'hôtel. N'importe qui pourrait penser que la réception pourrait être au 31ème étage et monter là-haut, et bien dans ce cas, ce n'est pas comme ça, la réception est à l'étage, et il suffit de descendre. Concernant le bar du dernier étage, c'est le bar en plein air le plus haut des Etats-Unis. confirmé au 70ème étage il y a un ascenseur en verre qui n'a que trois boutons, le dernier est celui qui vous amène au 73ème étage où se trouve le bar extérieur, et au 71ème étage se trouve le restaurant la boucherie, si célèbre non seulement pour ses vues mais aussi pour son excellente cuisine.

l'edificio più alto della California è questo bellissimo edificio di recente costruzione. L'edificio ha una disposizione meravigliosa che lo rende ottimo per uso ufficio e hotel. Il grattacielo si distingue nello skyline di Los Angeles non solo per il suo bellissimo design con le sue vetrate, che è uno spettacolo da ammirare, soprattutto al tramonto dalla periferia della città. Questo gigante californiano è il quindicesimo edificio più alto degli Stati Uniti. e uno degli edifici di servizi per hotel e uffici del mondo. La torre della banca americana è leggermente più bassa di questa, quindi occupa il secondo posto nella lista degli edifici più alti, sebbene abbiano lo stesso numero di piani. 73 piani in totale. Un altro giorno parlerò della US Bank Tower a Los Angeles, che curiosamente è stato il mio edificio preferito per molti anni, anche se riconosco che quando è stato inaugurato questo favoloso e bellissimo edificio, è diventato anche il mio edificio preferito, non è facile decidere quale sia il numero uno nella mia lista personale e più di uno in tutti gli Stati Uniti perché ci sono edifici così belli che è molto difficile decidere, ma ovviamente sono sicuro di una cosa, questo Wilshire Grand Centre è davvero bella.

L'edificio dispone di sale congressi, palestre, piscine, negozi e altri servizi ai primi piani, come in molti alberghi. gli uffici veri e propri iniziano dai piani dall'11 al 29 con ascensori diretti a questi piani degli uffici. i piani dal 31 al 68 sono destinati ad albergo. il piano 69 è destinato a ristorante. al piano 70 si trovano la reception dell'hotel e un bar. al 71esimo piano devi andare per andare al famoso e celebrato ristorante La Boucherie che, come puoi immaginare, offre tour divini della città mentre i commensali gustano una cucina sensazionale.

al 73° piano salgono molti turisti e persone che alloggiano nell'hotel anche negli uffici per godersi la favolosa vista sulla città soprattutto di notte e dove si trova il bar che è diventato famoso nel mondo come uno dei bar al aire libre de mas altura del mundo si chiama spire 73, è un bar famoso in tutto il mondo per i suoi cocktail ed è aperto tutti i giorni fino a mezzanotte. c'è una zona relax per godersi i cockatiels, si può anche mangiare o cenare, con una vista meravigliosa sulla città, soprattutto di notte è indimenticabile e uno dei successi di questo posto favoloso. come potete immaginare la famosa scritta hollywood si vede perfettamente da questo hotel e logicamente proprio dall'alto di questa torre in questo bar unico che credo se non sbaglio sia il bar all'aperto più alto del mondo. le gigantesche autostrade uniche al mondo con tante corsie sempre piene di automobili sono vicinissime alla torre ed è impressionante vedere le migliaia di auto che vanno e vengono come macchinine, uno spettacolo impressionante sia di giorno che di notte. Ricordo che una volta percorrevo quelle autostrade e rimanevo sempre impressionato dall'immenso numero di corsie in ogni senso di marcia, direi che non ho mai visto un'autostrada così grande. l'edificio è imponente visto da qualsiasi punto, da lontano, e soprattutto quando si è alla base, è impressionante vedere la guglia in cima a questa bellissima torre di vetro. c'è un corridoio con ascensori che va dal 31° al 52° piano al 70° piano, mi spiego. la reception dell'hotel è al 70° piano, dovete prendere il piano terra, uno dei 4 ascensori rapidi a doppia cabina che salgono a tutta velocità fino al 70° piano, una volta lì e dopo esservi registrati, dovete recarvi in ​​un corridoio da cui partono i diversi ascensori per "scendere" ai diversi piani dell'hotel. Qualcuno potrebbe pensare che la reception potrebbe essere al 31° piano e andare lassù, ecco in questo caso non è così, la reception è al piano di sopra, e quello che devi fare è scendere. Per quanto riguarda il bar all'ultimo piano, è il bar all'aperto più alto degli Stati Uniti. confermato al 70° piano c'è un ascensore di vetro che ha solo tre pulsanti, l'ultimo è quello che porta al 73° piano dove si trova il bar all'aperto, e al 71° piano dove si trova il ristorante la boucherie, così famoso non solo per i suoi panorami ma per la sua ottima cucina.

the tallest building in California is this beautiful building recently built. The building has a wonderful layout that makes it great for office and hotel use. The skyscraper stands out in the Los Angeles skyline not only because of its beautiful design with its glass, which is a spectacle to admire, especially at sunset from the outskirts of the city. This Californian giant is the 15th tallest building in the United States. and one of the world's hotel and office service buildings. The us bank tower building is a little lower than this, so it occupies the second place in the list of the tallest buildings, although they have the same number of floors. 73 floors in total. Another day I will talk about the US Bank Tower in Los Angeles, which curiously has been my favorite building for many years, although I recognize that when this fabulous and beautiful building was inaugurated, it has also become my favorite building, it is not easy to decide which one it is number one on my personal list and more than one in all the United States because there are such beautiful buildings that it is very difficult to decide, but of course I am sure of one thing, this Wilshire Grand Center is really beautiful.

The building has conference rooms, gymnasiums, swimming pools, shops and other services on the first floors, as in many hotels. the offices proper begin on floors 11 to 29 with direct elevators to these office floors. floors 31 to 68 are intended as a hotel. floor 69 is intended for a restaurant. floor 70 has the hotel reception and a bar. the 71st floor is where you have to go to go to the famous and celebrated La Boucherie restaurant which, as you can imagine, offers divine tours of the city while diners enjoy sensational cuisine.

the 73rd floor is where many tourists and people who stay in the hotel even in the offices go up to enjoy the fabulous views of the city especially at night and where is the bar that has become world famous as one of the bars al aire libre de mas altura del mundo is called spire 73, it is a bar famous all over the world for its cocktails and it opens every day until midnight. there is a chill out area to enjoy the cockatiels, you can also eat or dine, with wonderful views of the city, especially at night it is unforgettable and one of the successes of this fabulous place. as you can imagine the famous sign that reads hollywood can be seen perfectly from this hotel and logically from precisely the top of this tower in this unique bar that I believe if I'm not mistaken is the highest open air bar in the world. the gigantic highways unique in the world with so many lanes always filled with cars are very close to the tower and it is impressive to see the thousands of cars coming and going like little toy cars, an impressive spectacle both day and night. I remember that once I used those highways and I was always impressed by the immense number of lanes in each direction, I would say that I have never seen such a big highway. the building is impressive seen from any point, from afar, and especially when you are at the base, it is impressive to see the spire at the top of this beautiful glass tower. there is a corridor with elevators that go from the 31st to the 52nd floor on the 70th floor, let me explain. the hotel reception is on the 70th floor, you have to take the ground floor, one of the 4 double cabin express elevators that go up at full speed to the 70th floor. once there and after you have registered, you have to go to a corridor where the different elevators leave to "go down" to the different floors of the hotel. Anyone could think that the reception could be on the 31st floor and go up there, well in this case it's not like that, the reception is upstairs, and what you have to do is go down. Regarding the bar on the last floor, it is the highest open-air bar in the United States. confirmed on the 70th floor there is a glass elevator that has only three buttons, the last one is the one that takes you to the 73rd floor where the outdoor bar is, and the 71st floor is where the restaurant la boucherie is, which is so famous not only for its views but for its excellent cuisine.

Houston - JPMorgan Chase Tower

Rising above Houston with quiet authority, the JPMorgan Chase Tower is not merely a skyscraper — it is a vertical city carved into steel and glass, a monument to movement, scale, and architectural ambition. While its five-sided form reshaped the skyline, its true magic unfolds inside, where one of the most sophisticated elevator systems in the United States transforms altitude into experience.

The journey begins at the ground floor, beneath a soaring lobby flooded with light from its monumental glass wall. From here, a fleet of express elevators waits like high-speed capsules ready to launch into the sky. With doors closing in near silence, they surge upward in a single uninterrupted ascent, leaving the streets of Houston far below in seconds. Floors blur past. The city shrinks. Gravity seems to soften.

This rapid climb leads to one of the tower’s most remarkable spaces — the skylobby on the 60th floor, suspended high above downtown like a floating urban plaza. It is not simply a transfer floor, but a vertical crossroads where thousands of daily journeys converge. Sunlight pours through tall windows, revealing sweeping views of Houston stretching endlessly toward the horizon. From this height, the skyline feels like a sculpted landscape, and the tower itself feels like the heart of it.

Here, the building reveals its true brilliance. The skylobby functions as a central station in a vertical transit network, where passengers step into a carefully orchestrated system of local elevators that serve the upper levels of the tower. More than a dozen local elevators rise from this sky-high hub, carrying people to offices stacked like neighborhoods in the clouds — up through the 70th floor and beyond.

With over fifty elevators moving through its core every day, the JPMorgan Chase Tower becomes a living machine of motion. Express elevators shoot upward like arteries of speed, while local elevators flow steadily through the upper floors, creating a rhythm that never truly stops. It is a choreography of engineering — precise, silent, and powerful — turning the building into a self-contained vertical metropolis.

This design allows the tower to breathe, to function efficiently at an enormous scale, and to feel alive from morning to night. Thousands of workers rise and descend daily, crossing paths in the skylobby as though in a grand elevated city square. Conversations begin. Coffee cups travel skyward. Workdays unfold hundreds of meters above the ground.

Few skyscrapers in the world express verticality so dramatically — not only in their height, but in how they move people through space. The JPMorgan Chase Tower does not simply stand tall; it carries life upward.

From its blazing express elevators to its sky-suspended lobby and its vast network of local lifts, the tower becomes an architectural universe in motion — a soaring symbol of Houston’s ambition, elegance, and love of scale.

Dominant Houston avec une autorité tranquille, la tour JPMorgan Chase est bien plus qu'un simple gratte-ciel : c'est une ville verticale sculptée d'acier et de verre, un monument dédié au mouvement, à l'échelle et à l'ambition architecturale. Si sa forme pentagonale redessine l'horizon, sa véritable magie opère à l'intérieur, où l'un des systèmes d'ascenseurs les plus sophistiqués des États-Unis transforme l'altitude en une expérience unique.

Le voyage commence au rez-de-chaussée, sous un hall vertigineux baigné de lumière grâce à son immense façade de verre. De là, une flotte d'ascenseurs express attend, tels des capsules à grande vitesse prêtes à s'élancer vers le ciel. Les portes se refermant presque silencieusement, ils s'élèvent en une seule montée ininterrompue, laissant les rues de Houston loin en contrebas en quelques secondes. Les étages se confondent. La ville se rétrécit. La gravité semble s'atténuer.

Cette ascension fulgurante mène à l'un des espaces les plus remarquables de la tour : le Sky Lobby, au 60e étage, suspendu au-dessus du centre-ville comme une place urbaine flottante. Il ne s'agit pas d'un simple étage de correspondance, mais d'un véritable carrefour vertical où convergent chaque jour des milliers de personnes effectuant leurs trajets domicile-travail. La lumière du soleil inonde la pièce à travers de hautes fenêtres, offrant des vues panoramiques sur Houston qui s'étendent à perte de vue. De cette hauteur, la silhouette urbaine se dessine comme un paysage sculpté, dont la tour est le cœur.

Ici, l'édifice révèle toute sa splendeur. Le hall supérieur fait office de gare centrale au sein d'un réseau de transport vertical, où les passagers accèdent à un système savamment orchestré d'ascenseurs desservant les étages supérieurs. Plus d'une douzaine d'ascenseurs partent de ce centre vertigineux, transportant les occupants vers des bureaux agencés comme des quartiers suspendus dans les nuages, jusqu'au 70e étage et au-delà.

Avec plus de cinquante ascenseurs circulant quotidiennement en son cœur, la tour JPMorgan Chase devient une véritable machine à mouvements. Les ascenseurs express s'élancent vers le haut à toute vitesse, tandis que les ascenseurs locaux circulent sans cesse dans les étages supérieurs, créant un rythme incessant. C'est une chorégraphie d'ingénierie – précise, silencieuse et puissante – qui transforme l'édifice en une métropole verticale autonome.

Cette conception permet à la tour de respirer, de fonctionner efficacement à une échelle colossale et de s'animer du matin au soir. Des milliers d'employés montent et descendent chaque jour, traversant le hall panoramique comme une immense place publique suspendue. Les conversations s'engagent. Les tasses de café s'envolent vers le ciel. Les journées de travail se déroulent à des centaines de mètres au-dessus du sol.

Rares sont les gratte-ciel au monde qui expriment la verticalité avec autant de force, non seulement par leur hauteur, mais aussi par la manière dont ils orientent les personnes dans l'espace. La tour JPMorgan Chase ne se contente pas de s'élever ; elle porte la vie vers le haut.

De ses ascenseurs express étincelants à son hall vertigineux et son vaste réseau d'ascenseurs locaux, la tour devient un univers architectural en mouvement, un symbole imposant de l'ambition, de l'élégance et du goût pour les grandes dimensions qui caractérisent Houston.