The World's Most Incredible Escalators

The World's Most Incredible Escalators

Also known as stairs that move, today’s escalator seems as revolutionary a sketch as vending machines, barely more exciting than coin-operated salaries phones. Slowly and diagonally, they lawsuit pedestrians up toward destinations with indeterminate reward—like a second-floor Gap. Frequently central pieces of architecture, escalators climb stories with ease, but they’re often eyesores. A handful of designs, however, return the necessary phrase to the next level. Practical tins be pretty, and sequences of a runway—or at the very least, a stunning step up.