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ELEVATORS

AT

1,800 FEET

PER MINUTE!

Hong Kong already has two sets of elevators travelling at 800 feet per minute the Otis units serving the International and Realty Buildings

which dominate the Colony's water front.

However, thanks to Otis research, the world's largest office.

apartment building will soon have elevators travelling at 1,800 feet per minute. This is the John Hancock Centre now under construction in Chicago and expected to be complete in 1968.

The 1,100 foot sky-scraper will have 48 floors of apartments, 28 floors of office space, seven floors of parking area

for 1,200 cars. and commercial stores and shops

Otis will provide the 50 elevators and escalators for this giant building.

The elevators, like those in Hong Kong's International and Realty Buildings,

will be controlled by computers which sense traffic requirements and send elevator cars to where they will be needed ahead of being called.

100,

Observatory, Restaurant

90

26

80

Apartment Floors

10

70

60

50

40

30

Sky Plaza

Office Floors

20

10

Office shuttle.

Escalators

Service

Passenger

--Express elevators to

restaurant and observatory

Express shuttle to sky plaza

Parking, Store levels

Street level

Entrance Lobbies

The US$95,000,000.00 centre tapers from a base of 41,000 square feet to 16,000 square feet at the top.

Otis in Hong Kong maintains a staff of 550 to design install and maintain elevators and escalators of all sizes. There are Otis offices and agents throughout the Far East.

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Far East Architect & Builder December, 1966