Saturday, April 27, 2013

A photographer's quest to appreciate (and database) the best escalators in the world

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It's easy for city-dwellers to overlook the escalator, but Japanese photographer Miha Tamura is working to highlight the functional beauty and engineering achievements of the moving staircases. Her site, Tokyo Escalator, serves as a database of sorts featuring hundreds of the machines from around Japan as well as the rest of the world. In an interview this month with PingMag , Tamura spoke about her odd project, and explained "I don’t publish pictures of escalators that are just 'average'... A really nice escalator, like the one by Richard Rogers at Lloyd’s of London [below], means to really understand the appeal of escalators and then take advantage of that to the maximum in the design."


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