We ascend the narrow wooden stairs (he has plans to widen the staircase, rip out the charmless elevator and flood the place with light) and arrive at the living quarters, decorated almost exclusively with the furniture that Owens has been designing since 2006.
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Thus, the Chinese elevator market also has a lot of growth potential.
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The restoration, led by the government and the Hong Kong Heritage Conservation Foundation, has retained its old-world charm while adding conveniences such as a nifty elevator that rises at an angle up the bluff on which the hotel sits.
The elevator accident that killed a Manhattan advertising executive last week has made people in New York and elsewhere anxious about stepping onto an elevator.
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It has reclaimed hardwood floors, a fresco ceiling in the library, a mahogany-paneled elevator and chimney pieces from the 15th to the 17th century.
The house has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, an elevator, a wine cellar, four fireplaces and a laundry room with a pet shower.
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However, one school has just taken a different approach with an innovative new contest -- the so-called Elevator Pitch.
The venue has its own interior courtyard with private entrance, full-time doorman, and even a throwback elevator operator.
Mr. DesRosiers recently completed a 6, 200-square-foot garage in the suburbs of Detroit that has a 1, 800-square-foot detail shop on the lower level with a penthouse above, accessible via elevator.
While this technology still has a long way to go, challenges such as NASA's October 21 First Annual Space Elevator Competition at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley are spurring design teams to push the limits of both their robots and the super-strong, carbon nanotube-based ribbons that are key to supporting them.
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