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“The idea of getting on escalators like you did in the 1950s and ’60s is not happening,” said executive Bert Dezzutti of Brookfield Office Propert
by awinder 7y ago
“The idea of getting on
escalators like you did in the
1950s and ’60s is not
happening,” said executive Bert
Dezzutti of Brookfield Office
Properties. “People desire to
move around and be untethered.
You’re not using lazy old
escalators anymore.”
This can’t seriously be a thing right, this is the story of 1 crazy man and his vendetta against escalators and not an entire community gone mad...
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- lozenge 7y agoWho wants an escalator in an office building with more than two floors? They are literally designed to make it take longer to reach your destination than an elevator.
- jrockway 7y agoI worked at Google NYC for 6 years. It's a 16 story building that was designed to be a freight transfer terminal. The elevators were very very slow. It was often significantly faster to walk up 10 flights of stairs than to wait. I would have killed for an escalator. (In all fairness to the facilities team, they built new banks of elevators on a very regular basis. Still slow, depending on which floor you wanted to go to. But I'm sure it's much better now.)
- slang800 7y agoIt's a tradeoff between latency and throughput... Also, there are some small advantages for people who are claustrophobic, and in cases when the power goes down.
- greglindahl 7y agoTons of hotels have escalators serving the bottom floors (meeting rooms, restaurants) combined with elevators (guest rooms). In tall office buildings with many tenants, it's not that unusual for companies with multiple adjacent floors to have stairs or escalators, in order to avoid waiting for an elevator.
- hermitdev 7y agoI worked in the Sears Tower for a few years. Coming in from the west side of the building, had to walk down a flight of stairs, take an elevator up around a few dozen floors, transfer up a floor via an escalator to get the next elevator to get to get to my final floor at about 40 floors. It was about 10 minutes from entering the building until I got to my desk sometimes. Stairs were not an option because you could only exit at ground floor. Previous job, we had elevators straight to most our floors, we occupied the upper floors of a 37 floor building. We also had a few around floor 10, to get to those, one had to go all the way to gound floor and then back up. Within a block, stairs were an option and id generally use the stairs for up to 3 floors.
- mehrdadn 7y agoYou must've never seen slow elevators!
- mprev 7y ago> They are literally designed to make it take longer to reach your destination than an elevator. What makes you say that? An escalator is about delivering a constant flow of people between two fixed floors. An elevator delivers bursts of people between a choice of floors. Which one is faster depends on availability and the journey you want to make.
- slang800 7y agoOr one real estate observing the alien culture of a generation he has no connection to, and making wild assumptions to fill in the gaps.
- rsynnott 7y agoI mean, I think it’s more just that office buildings don’t normally have escalators.
- mc32 7y agoObviously they disagree with luxury developments in places all over the world which make liberal use of escalators in their buildings.
- jayd16 7y agoThis article is pretty hilarious. Its mostly just quotes from someone hawking their wares so any decision they made will be trumpeted (by them) as the next big thing. That said, LA construction is only a few stories (2-3) high and turning escalators into stairs is an easy way to save cost and make a place feel a bit bigger. You can join the up and down into one large stair and you can often put them outside too.