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By 2020, the opening of a further deck, dubbed the "Top of Shanghai" on the 121st floor at 562m (1844 ft), made it the highest observation deck in the world, beating out the Burj Khalifa's observation deck at 555m (1823 ft). [20] The J Hotel Shanghai Tower, opened on the 120th floor in 2021, became the world's highest luxury hotel. [21] [22]
The test tower, whose installation was completed by Yukselis Elevator, has been Turkey's highest test tower since 2020 20 tie Canny Test Tower [17] Canny Elevator Zhongshan, China: 328 ft (100 m) 2015 20 tie Kleemann Test Tower Kleemann Kunshan, China: 328 ft (100 m) 2018 [20] 20 tie XII Test Tower [21] VGSI Elevator: Dong Nai, Vietnam [21] 328 ...
The Good Shepherd is a 2006 American spy film produced and directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, and De Niro, with an extensive supporting cast. Although it is fictional, loosely based on events in the life of James Jesus Angleton , it is advertised as telling the history of the birth of counterintelligence in the ...
It stands 246 m (807 ft) tall and was built to test the company's MULTI elevator system. At 232 m (761 ft), the tower contains Germany's tallest observation deck. [1] It was completed in 2017 and was the tallest elevator test tower in the world then, [2] [3] as well as the second-largest elevator test chamber after a former mine shaft used by Kone.
The test tower was built in 1966 and has a height equivalent of 18-stories. There are three shafts in the tower, two of them are to test high-rise elevators, and one of them is to test safety features on the elevator (Freefall, Emergency Brakes, etc). The top floor of the test tower was a conference space for the company to have meetings.
The Bailong Elevator, 2009. The Bailong Elevator (Chinese: 百龙电梯; literally Hundred Dragons Elevator) is a glass double-deck elevator built onto the side of a cliff in the Wulingyuan area of Zhangjiajie, China, an area noted for more than 3,000 quartzite sandstone pillars and peaks across most of the site, many over 200 metres (660 ft) in height.
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The tower featured prominently in a 1993 episode of the Channel 4 educational programme The Secret Life of Machines (Series 3, Episode 1), in which Tim Hunkin demonstrates the operation of the high-speed lift in the tower. [citation needed] The tower was lampooned by broadcaster Terry Wogan as the "Northampton lighthouse".