Plenty of bigger or high traffic American buildings have this, too. Examples I've seen: Bear Stearns' old building (well, the one they were in when they were no

Plenty of bigger or high traffic American buildings have this, too. Examples I've seen: Bear Stearns' old building (well, the one they were in when they were no more), the NY Times new building. In the NYT one, you choose your floor before you get on, it specifies your elevator, and then... there are no buttons inside. It's kind of horrifying. The Bear Stearns one still had buttons inside but you were definitely directed to a specific elevator of about 8 available. The building was 43 floors and an uninterrupted elevator ride to the 42nd, where I worked, from the ground floor took about 3 minutes. It was so fast it never failed to make me motion sick, and and my ears popped.