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  2. List of tallest educational buildings - Wikipedia

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    School City Country Height (m) Height (ft) Floors Year District Notes Source 1 Main Building: Lomonosov Moscow State University: Moscow: Russia: 240 m 787 ft 36 1953 Ramenki: The tallest educational-use building in the world. [1] 2 Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower: Multiple Tokyo: Japan: 204 m 668 ft 50 2008 Nishi-Shinjuku: 17th-tallest Tokyo building ...

  3. List of visionary tall buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of buildings and other structures that have been envisioned. The X-Seed 4000 is one of the tallest structures ever conceived. Shown in this image is the Burj Khalifa (828 m (2,717 ft)), tallest structure in the world at the time of completion in 2010 to this year (2025), and the X-Seed 4000 project (4,000 m (13,000 ft)).

  4. Escalator school - Wikipedia

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    An escalator school (エスカレーター学校, esukareitā gakkō) [1] (also esukareitā kō (エスカレーター校) and esukareita kō (エスカレータ校)) [2] is an educational school that offers education from elementary or middle (or even from the kindergarten) until university.

  5. List of tallest buildings in Buffalo, New York - Wikipedia

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    *Height: 174/53 to roof level, 194/59 to top of mechanicals (Source: Developer) 32 Standard Elevator 194 / 59 1928 Also known as Pillsbury Elevator. [37] 33 Kaleida Health Gates Vascular Institute: 190 / 58 10 2011 [38] 34 Marine A Elevator 190 / 58 11 1925 [39] 35 Superior Elevator 189 / 58 1925 Also known as Cargill "S" or Cargill Superior ...

  6. List of elevator test towers - Wikipedia

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    Height Year completed Remarks KONE High-Rise Test Tower (Underground) [1] Kone: Tytyri, Finland: 1,148 ft (350 m) 1997 One of Kone's major achievements in elevator technology was tested at this facility. 1 H1 Tower [2] Hitachi: Guangzhou, China: 897 ft (273 m) 2020 Became the tallest elevator test tower when completed in January 2020 2 Jauhar ...

  7. Elevator - Wikipedia

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    The elevator in the New City Hall in Hanover, Germany is a technical rarity, and unique in Europe, as the elevator starts straight up but then changes its angle by 15 degrees to follow the contour of the dome of the hall. The cabin therefore tilts 15 degrees during the ride. The elevator travels a height of 43 meters.

  8. Skyscraper design and construction - Wikipedia

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    The invention of the elevator was a precondition for the invention of skyscrapers, given that most people would not (or could not) climb more than a few flights of stairs at a time. The elevators in a skyscraper are not simply a necessary utility like running water and electricity, but are in fact closely related to the design of the whole ...

  9. List of tallest buildings in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Tallest all-office building in Midtown Manhattan. Due to floor ceilings between 14 and 20 feet in height, it has fewer stories than most buildings of similar height; its top floor is numbered 93. Has the highest panoramic elevator in the world. The building topped out in September 2019 [39] and formally opened on September 14, 2020. [40] 5 432 ...