Urban Journeys KONE References 2017 Improving cities one project at a time The shape of things to come Our customers offer remarkable examples of how life and work in cities is evolving. With the world’s urban population expected to increase from 3.5 billion today to 6.3 billion by 2050, there are new needs for buildings and infrastructure, for living standards, for safety and for the creation of sustainable societies. These needs and trends are defining the shape of things to come. Changing demographics show that this is already happening. People are forming families later, living longer and choosing not to move into suburbs. Societal patterns like this also have an impact on how cities need to function. Therefore it becomes important to consider what is happening outside of the building as well as on the inside. We need new thinking and ideas for the nature of infrastructure, accessibility and how people can move around safely and smoothly. Our customers see the value in improving and modernizing existing cities and buildings, as well as new developments, all of which bring potential for innovation. At KONE, we are excited and proud to work closely with our customers in these urban journeys, and it is an honor to showcase some of our joint projects in this new reference collection. Henrik Ehrnrooth president & CEO, KONE Corporation Contents 62 34 62 Shanghai’s transformation Read how rising investments and innovative technologies are fueling Shanghai’s office spaces. 34 In with the new The creative capital of Europe, Amsterdam, continues to reinvent itself by transforming its aging buildings. 66 Moving with the times Find out how the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s modernization helps it cater to 1.6 million visitors every year. 46 Harmony at sea KONE’s innovative solutions are helping the world’s largest passenger ship leave its mark. See how. 4 Contents 66 46 6 Snapshot: Rise of the cities 12 A harmony of design and technology 8 Expert speak: Building tall The Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany 9 At a glance: High-rise building facts from around the world 18 Onward and upward Torre Anseli, Mexico City, Mexico 74 Technology: Listen to machines talk 24 An oasis in the desert Insights The Four Seasons, Abu Dhabi, UAE 26 Making hospitals better 10 Aaron Ites: Who dares wins NRAH, Adelaide, Australia 44 Hugues Delval: Harnessing the power of change 30 Making the impossible possible 60 Ilpo Marjamaa: The future beckons China Zun, Beijing, China 72 Sascha Brozek: Asian flavor 38 Flying high Oslo Airport, Oslo, Norway 50 IoT makes its mark Humlegården Fastigheter, Stockholm, Sweden EDITORIAL OFFICE AND LAYOUT: Spoon Helsinki 56 Building the A-team COVER PHOTO: iStock ISS PRINTER: Painotalo Plus Digital Oy, Lahti 58 Hitting it out of the park KONE Corporation Keilasatama 3, P.O. Box 7 Staples Center, Los Angeles, USA FI-02150 Espoo, Finland +358 204 751 68 Mission modernization www.kone.com Westend Gate, Frankfurt, Germany 5 Snapshot 6 Snapshot Rise of the cities WITH OVER TWO-THIRDS OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION set to live in urban environments by 2050, cities have no option but to go vertical to accommodate rising numbers. It is essential that the flow of people in these future cities be streamlined and directed in a smooth and seamless manner, to ensure their comfort and happiness. High-rise buildings dominate Hong Kong’s skyline. PHOTO Mike Van Schoonderwalt 7 Expert speak Building tall TEXT Steve Roman PHOTO Martin Adolfsson all buildings can be The overall trajectory is one of moving respond to heat by becoming porous. viewed as valuable pieces upwards, not outwards,” he says. “It’s much more sustainable to grow of real estate, works of art materials instead of mining materials, or symbols of prestige. For IN TERMS OF ENGINEERING, Malott says, and it’s more sustainable to spin fabrics David Malott, founding we can soon achieve buildings that are a together into stronger structures than it partner in the New York- mile high (1,600 meters) using the same is to melt steel,” he says. T based architectural firm fundamental technology that has been “I want to heal and repair our planet AI and chairman of the Council on Tall in use for the past 40 years. Incremental because we’re beyond the point of simply Buildings and Urban Habitat, they’re improvements in steel and concrete, the sustaining what we have. We have to do nothing less than humanity’s future. construction materials of choice, have something radically different. Growing “From a planetary perspective, as the been nudging the height ceiling upward and harvesting buildings is definitely world’s population grows, we need to over the decades, but now surpassing the going to be something of the future.” compact the footprint of civilization,” current threshold would require what he he says. calls a “quantum leap in innovation.” FORTUNATELY, DEVELOPMENT in tall Urbanization, Malott points out, Malott cites the advent of KONE buildings isn’t just about setting new In 2020, the continues to be the global trend. Even in world will see the UltraRope, a carbon-fiber replacement height records, but involves making the the developed world, cities that were once completion of its for steel elevator cable, as one such leap. buildings themselves more capable with defined by post-manufacturing blight are first 1,000-meter- He believes that other radical advances, the help of improved computer power. plus building, the now seeing a renaissance as they become Jeddah Tower in only a year or two away, will similarly Malott predicts that, as machine hubs for technology and service-based Saudi Arabia. While involve moving from steel and concrete learning and AI advance, an abundance the achievement is economies. “People want to live in the guaranteed to evoke to organic, carbon-based materials. One of sensors, which are now cheaper and cities again. That’s where the energy is. wonder and bold example is the renewed interest in wood, better than ever, will act as a building’s That’s where the opportunities are.” headlines, the real specifically wood combined with concrete central nervous system, making it far story lies in how That, says Mallott, has already led to demographic shifts to make composite structures, as a more responsive than before. the ramping up of high-rise construction and groundbreaking construction material for tall buildings. It Not only will the building be able to as well as a massive interest among innovation could has already been used to create buildings measure and adjust for changes in light or soon cause technologists in ways to build taller, the number of of up to 20 stories, he says. check structural soundness, but also get to smarter and more user-friendly skyscrapers in Likewise, advances have been made know its users, providing each with a cus- urban centers to buildings than ever before. mushroom. in using crushed mushroom stems tomized experience, Malott says. “There’s “I think we’re still just at the mixed with wood chips as a hardened, going to be a more intimate connection be- beginning of it all. There are more tall insulating material. Malott predicts tween building and user. Just like with our buildings built in the last 20 years than that further in the future, perhaps in apps and our music, buildings will be able in the preceding 100 years, and the a couple of decades, buildings will to tailor themselves to each individual user, pace of it only seems to be accelerating. feature bacteria-infused fabrics that can and that is going to be a game changer.” / 8 At a glance High-rise building facts from around the world 125 530m super tall (over 300 meters) Guangzhou CTF Finance buildings and 3 mega tall Centre became the (over 600 meters) buildings tallest building to be have been completed completed in 2016. globally. TYTYRI: The world’s only underground elevator testing facility 1 KONE’s Tytyri test lab is the only underground elevator testing facility in the world. 2 Built in an active limestone mine, the facility is used to test elevators for heights up to 350 meters. 3 The facility contains 11 elevator shafts with a combined length of 1.6 kilometers. 11 84% 4 KONE can test elevator speeds up to 70 km/hour or 19 buildings measuring of buildings measuring meters per second in this facility. over 200 meters were over 200 meters were 5 The unique free-fall tests conducted here to test deceleration and braking see elevator speeds reach up built in Shenzen in built in Asia. China to 90 km/hour or 26 meters per second. 2016, the most in any topped the ranks for 6 Advanced products including the KONE UltraRope®, single city. the ninth year running which has effectively doubled the height to which a with 66% of these building can be constructed, are tested in this facility. buildings. 7 Elevators used in some of the world’s tallest buildings, including the Jeddah Tower, China Zun and Marina Bay Sands, have been tested at the Tytyri facility. 53% 128 1,168 of tall buildings were buildings of 200 meters’ buildings measuring over built with composite height or greater were 200 meters have been structural systems completed around the completed around the that optimize the use world at the end of 2016. world so far. of steel and concrete. Source: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 2016 9 Insights TEXT Aaron Ites senior vice president, New Construction Business, KONE Americas PHOTO KONE Who dares wins he power of technology managed, we are also getting involved is redefining how in the process.