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Source: Roger Frei archdaily.com

Limmat Footbridge and Promenade Lift, Ennetbaden, Switzerland, 2007 designed by Leuppi & Schafroth Architekten

Situated on the same location where a cable ferry over the river once existed, a steel structure bridges the approximately 30 meter high and 80 meter long distance between the two points. This new linear path – perceivable as a walk-through sculpture – is composed of a horizontal bridge, a vertical elevator tower and a horizontal walkway. Red-brown in color – varying in shade depending on the light – this steel artifact complements its surroundings. At night, the indirectly illuminated structure glows in the landscape. -- ArchDaily 

Source: José Manuel Rodrigues archdaily.com

Urban Requalification of S. Martinho do Porto, São Martinho do Porto, Portugal, 2008 designed by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos

With the intention to overcome the barrier between the lowest level – the town, and the highest level – the historic center, a panoramic elevator was designed. -- ArchDaily

Source: Aitor Ortiz archdaily.com

Urbanization and Urban Elevator in Galtzaraborda, Galtzaraborda, Spain designed by VAUMM

The elevator has been built “in the only place where it could be”, its location is a crossing point resulting from the rule requiring minimum distances, maintaining the view of site from the houses around and not exceeding alignments of them. The second point that determines the shape of the elevator is the position of the gateway bridge which is misalignment and tangent to the elevator to keep away from the tree, focusing the pedestrian way in the virtual axis of the void space. -- ArchDaily

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Accessible Ribadeo, Galicia, Spain, 2010 designed by Abalo Alonso Arquitectos

The problem has been put forward: improving the connections between both worlds; transforming, or using the difference in floor level as a connection hub. The city council launches a call for proposals through an ideas contest. There are no budgetary constraints. There is not a program where needs are clearly defined and specified, nor a specific location or intervention site. There is just a problem which is calling for a solution. -- ArchDaily

Source: Bent René Synnevåg archdaily.com

Forest Stair in Stokke, Stokke, Norway, 2012 designed by Saunders Architecture

The design plays with the idea of an artificially facilitated foray up above the forest floor, an elevated viewpoint that would otherwise be unavailable to the visitor. -- ArchDaily

Source: John Hill

Pedestrian Connection, Chur, Switzerland, 2012 designed by Esch Sintzel Architects

The architects wove a stairway along and across a funicular, which allows people without the means of using the stairs to ascend and descend the ten stories separating the school building at the base and the one next to the Cathedral of Chur. -- A Weekly Dose of Architecture

Source: Imagina2 visualization studio archdaily.com

Urban Elevator, Echavacoiz, Grupo Urdanoz, s/n, 31009 Pamplona, Navarra, Navarre, Spain, 2013 designed by AH Asociados

This project emerge from an R+D+I study on Pedestrian Mobility in “Echavacoiz Norte”, commissioned by the City Council of Pamplona to the Innovation Department of ah asociados. In this research, three critical areas with historical accessibility and urban integration problems were detected and could be solved by implementing mechanical systems. -- ArchDaily

Source: Luis Rodrique Lopez archdaily.com

Barrakka Lift Project, Valletta, Malta, 2013 designed by Architecture Project

Valletta is being given a new lease of life as the island prepares to host the presidency of the European Union in 2017 and the city having recently been named European Capital of Culture for 2018. The structure is designed to enhance movement of large numbers of visitors and residents between the Grand Harbour and Valletta, from the water’s edge along the Valletta waterfront, over the powerful landward enceinte of fortifications and into the heart of the city, creating new links to the Upper Barrakka Gardens and the new City Gate.  -- ArchDaily