Posted on 04/06/2013 8:13:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Developers recently unveiled plans for the new Wilshire Grand Hotel and office tower, set to be built in downtown Los Angeles. The new building is set to have a futuristic look inside and out, standing tall at 1,100 feet. The new Wilshire Grand is set to be a “four star plus” hotel and will have many luxurious attractions.
The project is estimated to cost around one billion dollars and is set to open in 2017. One of the towers most interesting features will be its high tech elevator system. The office area will use an elevator system that has no buttons inside the cab. The elevator will know where you are going and know your typical daily schedule. Using an ID card system, the elevator will know exactly where you will be, when you will be there, and where you want to go. If you normally arrive at 8:15 AM, the elevator will be on the first floor waiting for you. What if you want to go another floor? Not an option with this elevator system, because the designers want you to register everything on your card, so the elevators can run more efficiently. The hotel guests can take advantage of the super-fast elevators that will bring them to any floor, even the sky lobby on the 70th floor, in no time at all.
This one is a bit more complete...
I can see it now: “ Good morning, Dave. I see you intend to go to the 23rd floor. You don’t want to do that, Dave. I’m taking you to the 12th floor instead. And don’t try the stairwells, the electronic locks will not let you through.”
Sounds like Obama's navigators for his "affordable" "health" "care"
I didn’t think pushing a button to indicate which floor you’d like to go to was a chore. Maybe LA is different.
New tagline.
That would be a cool building to be in during a 7.0.
A lot of people are anxious about spreading disease.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it were built and engineered to withstand a 7.0.
It sounds like a freaking nightmare that will be replaced by buttons, at great expense, within three years.
Most all those building there now were built to bend, sway and wave like flags during seismic events. It’s also why they are expensive to construct.
That was the old design when it was to be two buildings. This is the current rendering, and it'll just be the one hotel tower now.
I’ve always imagined the top floor of these skyscrapers would be known as “the vomit floor” after anything larger than 6.5. The do give a lot and it can’t feel pleasant way up there, like a vertical version of crack-the-whip.
Maybe, but I wouldn’t bet my life on it by being in it.
As a native So Cal former resident, I’ve rode out my share of earthquakes including the 71 and 94 quakes. I lost my home in the 94 one.
I agree 100% unless there is a special bank of elevators just for card use.
I suspect that is actually what they mean though.
Elevators have been smart for year, and fuzzy logic traffic flow patterns.
But when I want to get off at a different floor because I got to go to the bathroom, I dont need a silicon chip to decide I dont have to go that bad.
People will put up with this crap for ONE WEEK and then it will be time to (expensively) retrofit. I do hope they have ENOUGH BRAINS to scar-in the wiring to support doing it the right way.
(by the way, where else but FR could we be linked to Elevator Design News - thank you)
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