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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.
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.
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 ...
[22] Otis Elevator Co. advertisements so frequently capitalized all of the letters in the word. See also: Genericized trademark In 1950, the landmark case Haughton Elevator Co. v. Seeberger precipitated the end of Otis's exclusive reign over the word "escalator", and simultaneously created a cautionary study for companies and individuals ...
Storeys within a building need not be all the same height—often the lobby is taller, for example. One review of tall buildings suggests that residential towers may have 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in) floor height for apartments, while a commercial building may have floor height of 3.9 m (12 ft 9.5 in) for the storeys leased to tenants.
Simple core arrangement – stairs "wrapping around" elevator shaft. In architecture, a core is a vertical space used for circulation and services. It may also be referred to as a circulation core or service core. A core may include staircases, elevators, electrical cables, water pipes and risers.
The main problem with double-deck elevators is that they cause all elevator occupants to stop when only people on one level need to get off at a given floor. Another solution, employed by the Shanghai Tower and the under-construction (2019) Jeddah Tower is for buildings to be created for mixed-use, putting office space in the lower floors as it ...
A levee is a structure built along a river to raise the height of its banks, thereby preventing nearby land from flooding (see: dike). To levy is to impose (1) a tax, fine or other assessment, or (2) a military draft; as a noun, a levy is an assessment or army thus gathered. The two words share a common root, but they are not considered ...