Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
Lotte World
Tower opens in Seoul setting world records
How high do you
want go above the ground to look down other buildings and observe the view of
the city? If the higher the better for you, here is a brand-new skyscraper just
opened to public in the capital of South Korea, called Lotte World Tower. It is
555-meter tall, not the highest but the fifth in the world ranking, and has a glass-bottom
observatory at 478 meters.
One thing
absolutely necessary to enjoy the magnificent view is fast but un-pressuring,
neither by air nor fellow passengers, elevators. In this newly completed
skyscraper, a double-deck elevator brings as many as 52 passengers at a time to
the top floor in just a minute at a speed of 10 meters per second, or 36km/h.
Too fast for
you? There are much faster ones competing in the world elevation race as landmark
buildings and towers become taller and taller. The fastest one so far lifts you
20 meters per second!
It seems not
just architects but engineers of elevators are the ones competing in the
world-tallest race.
Enjoy reading
and thinking if you’re ready to enjoy elevators at a speed of an automobile.
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