TK Elevator GmbH

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Member Since: 2010

Member Offices: Düsseldorf

With customers in over 100 countries served by more than 50,000 employees, TK Elevator achieved sales of around €8 billion in the fiscal year 2020/2021. Over 1,000 locations around the world provide an extensive network that guarantees closeness to customers. Over the past decades, TK Elevator has established itself as one of the world’s leading elevator companies and became independent since its separation from thyssenkrupp AG in August 2020. The company’s most important business line is the service business represented by over 24,000 service technicians. The product portfolio covers commodity elevators for residential and commercial buildings to cutting-edge, highly customized solutions for state-of-the-art skyscrapers. In addition, it also consists of escalators and moving walks, passenger boarding bridges, stair and platform lifts. Integrated cloud-based service solutions, such as the MAX platform, are gaining in importance. With these digital offerings, there are no limits to urban mobility anymore. TKE – move beyond.

Fields of Expertise

Materials / Products / Systems Supplier; Vertical Transportation Consultant; Vertical Transportation Supplier

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

Rank	Name	Height
1	One World Trade Center	541.3 m / 1,776 ft
2	Ostankino Tower	540 m / 1,772 ft
3	Shanghai World Financial Center	492 m / 1,614 ft
4	Lakhta Center	462 m / 1,516 ft
5	PIF Tower	385 m / 1,263 ft
6	Federation Tower	373.7 m / 1,226 ft
7	Mercury City Tower	338.8 m / 1,112 ft
8	Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower	328.6 m / 1,078 ft
9	Parc1 Tower I	322 m / 1,056 ft
10	50 Hudson Yards	299 m / 981 ft

Awards

Winner: Trinity

Best Tall Office Building 2022

Ctbuh Leaders

Javier Sesma

CTBUH Awards Best Tall Building Office Jury, 2022

Bilbao

Building Completions Timeline

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Videos

01 June 2018

Occupant Interior Transportation Routes Using MULTI

As part of the ongoing CTBUH research project, "A Study on the Design Possibilities Enabled by Rope-Less, Non-Vertical Elevators", students created hypothetical projects that utilize...

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Research

17 October 2016

New Approaches for Efficient People Transportation in Both Dimensions – Vertically and Horizontally

The trend of growing cities with permanently increasing populations will require new and visionary solutions for mobility in urban areas. Moving people as we are...

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Global News

25 October 2022

Office Tower in Hudson Yards Development Officially Opens in New York City

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed a skyscraper in New York City as part of the Hudson Yards development in Midtown Manhattan. Called...

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Associated companies

Formerly Named

thyssenkrupp (2020)

Thyssen AG

Phoenix-Rheinrohr AG

Formerly Named

thyssenkrupp (2020)

Thyssen AG

Phoenix-Rheinrohr AG

Rank	Name	City	Completion	Height
1	Sky Mile Tower	Tokyo	-	1700 m / 5,577 ft
2	One World Trade Center	New York City	2014	541 m / 1,776 ft
3	Ostankino Tower	Moscow	1967	540 m / 1,772 ft
4	Federation Tower Spire	Moscow	-	506 m / 1,660 ft
5	Shanghai World Financial Center	Shanghai	2008	492 m / 1,614 ft
6	Lakhta Center	St. Petersburg	2019	462 m / 1,516 ft
7	PIF Tower	Riyadh	2021	385 m / 1,263 ft
8	Federation Tower	Moscow	2016	374 m / 1,226 ft
9	Mercury City Tower	Moscow	2013	339 m / 1,112 ft
10	Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower	Hanoi	2012	329 m / 1,078 ft
11	Parc1 Tower I	Seoul	2020	322 m / 1,056 ft
12	Waterview Tower	Chicago	-	319 m / 1,047 ft
13	50 Hudson Yards	New York City	2022	299 m / 981 ft
14	Comcast Center	Philadelphia	2008	297 m / 974 ft
15	One Tower	Balneário Camboriú	2022	290 m / 951 ft
16	Eight Spruce Street	New York City	2011	265 m / 870 ft
17	Commerzbank Tower	Frankfurt am Main	1997	259 m / 850 ft
18	Zhongshan TKE Elevator Laboratory Tower	Zhongshan	2018	248 m / 814 ft
19	Parc1 Tower II	Seoul	2020	247 m / 811 ft
20	181 Fremont	San Francisco	2018	247 m / 810 ft
21	Aufzugstestturm	Rottweil	2017	246 m / 807 ft
22	Evolution Tower	Moscow	2015	246 m / 807 ft
23	FKI Tower	Seoul	2013	246 m / 805 ft
24	CIBC Square II	Toronto	2024	243 m / 798 ft
25	Federation Tower - Zapad Tower	Moscow	2008	243 m / 796 ft
26	CIBC Square I	Toronto	2021	241 m / 792 ft
27	55 Hudson Yards	New York City	2018	237 m / 779 ft
28	Infinity Coast Tower	Balneário Camboriú	2019	235 m / 770 ft
29	ÏCE Condominiums at York Centre 2	Toronto	2015	234 m / 768 ft
30	Harbour Plaza Residences East	Toronto	2017	233 m / 764 ft
31	Ourhouse Headquarters West Tower	Guangzhou	2024	229 m / 750 ft
32	Time Warner Center North Tower	New York City	2004	228 m / 749 ft
32	Time Warner Center South Tower	New York City	2004	228 m / 749 ft
34	RSA Battle House Tower	Mobile	2007	227 m / 745 ft
35	Harbour Plaza Residences West	Toronto	2017	224 m / 735 ft
36	MARQUE Sukhumvit	Bangkok	2017	223 m / 730 ft
37	Shangri-La Hotel Toronto	Toronto	2012	214 m / 702 ft
38	Golden Tower	Jeddah	2018	205 m / 673 ft
39	ÏCE Condominiums at York Centre 1	Toronto	2014	202 m / 664 ft
40	The Ritz-Carlton Residences	Sunny Isles Beach	2020	195 m / 640 ft
41	SANTAMARIA Torre 6	Monterrey	2020	189 m / 620 ft
42	RBC Centre	Toronto	2009	185 m / 607 ft
43	ECB - European Central Bank	Frankfurt am Main	2014	184 m / 603 ft
44	250 West 55th Street	New York City	2013	183 m / 602 ft
45	Marina City I	Chicago	1964	179 m / 588 ft
45	Marina City II	Chicago	1964	179 m / 588 ft
47	IQ-Quarter Tower 2	Moscow	2016	178 m / 582 ft
48	Lodha Primero	Mumbai	2014	177 m / 581 ft
49	D2 Tower	Courbevoie	2014	171 m / 561 ft
50	Concordia Corporate	Nova Lima	2018	170 m / 556 ft
51	Ministry of Taxes	Baku	2021	168 m / 552 ft
52	Grattacielo Intesa Sanpaolo	Turin	2015	166 m / 545 ft
53	Império das Ondas	Balneário Camboriú	2016	165 m / 541 ft
54	The Encore	New York City	2016	163 m / 533 ft
55	Foshan Opera Tower	Foshan	-	160 m / 525 ft
56	The Uptown Residences	Toronto	2011	158 m / 518 ft
57	Three Hundred	Toronto	2014	158 m / 518 ft
58	Trinity	Puteaux	2020	157 m / 516 ft
59	Prime View	Joao Pessoa	2023	157 m / 515 ft
60	Helicon	San Pedro Garza García	2012	156 m / 512 ft
61	Dubai Frame	Dubai	2018	153 m / 501 ft
62	33 Arch Street	Boston	2004	149 m / 489 ft
63	One Park Tower	Mississauga	2008	142 m / 466 ft
64	Panorama Tower	Leipzig	1971	142 m / 466 ft
65	IQ-Quarter Tower 1	Moscow	2015	141 m / 463 ft
66	480 Washington Boulevard	Jersey City	2004	141 m / 461 ft
67	Rosewood Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi	2013	140 m / 460 ft
68	Leader Tower	St. Petersburg	2012	140 m / 459 ft
69	WTorre Morumbi	São Paulo	2015	140 m / 459 ft
70	Ourhouse Headquarters East Tower	Guangzhou	-	139 m / 456 ft
71	Camargo Corporate North Tower	São Paulo	2015	139 m / 456 ft
71	Camargo Corporate South Tower	São Paulo	2016	139 m / 456 ft
73	Nextower	Frankfurt am Main	2009	136 m / 446 ft
74	TKE Innovation and Qualification Center Tower	Vinings	2023	136 m / 446 ft
75	Nexus	Seattle	2020	135 m / 442 ft
76	Rochaverá Corporate Tower C	São Paulo	2012	134 m / 440 ft
77	Residence Inn New York Manhattan/Times Square	New York City	2006	133 m / 437 ft
78	Shirley Ryan AbilityLab	Chicago	2016	132 m / 431 ft
79	Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza	Houston	2007	131 m / 430 ft
80	Ocean Two Condominiums I	Sunny Isles Beach	2001	130 m / 426 ft
80	Ocean Two Condominiums II	Sunny Isles Beach	2001	130 m / 426 ft
82	Torre Z	São Paulo	2014	129 m / 422 ft
83	Quatro Ventos	Nova Lima	2022	125 m / 410 ft
84	Fifty South Sixth	Minneapolis	2001	123 m / 404 ft
85	Gran Lest	Goiania	2020	123 m / 404 ft
86	Faria Lima B32 Office Tower	São Paulo	2020	123 m / 404 ft
87	Solistice	Mississauga	2008	121 m / 397 ft
88	Henninger Turm	Frankfurt am Main	1961	120 m / 394 ft
89	Nicholas Residences	Toronto	2014	117 m / 384 ft
90	The Milan Condominium	New York City	2005	116 m / 381 ft
91	American Residence	Cuiaba	2012	114 m / 373 ft
92	RAK Tower	Ras al Khaimah	2014	114 m / 373 ft
93	Sede Localiza Hertz	Belo Horizonte	2017	113 m / 371 ft
94	Fairmont Ambassador Seoul Hotel	Seoul	2019	112 m / 367 ft
95	K2 at K Station	Chicago	2013	112 m / 366 ft
96	Platinum XO	Toronto	2008	111 m / 364 ft
97	Ellipse West	Toronto	2004	110 m / 361 ft
98	Torre Diagonal ZeroZero	Barcelona	2011	110 m / 361 ft
99	Amorepacific Headquarters	Seoul	2017	110 m / 361 ft
100	SkyLight Tower A	Moscow	2012	109 m / 358 ft
100	SkyLight Tower B	Moscow	2012	109 m / 358 ft
102	10 Bellair	Toronto	2003	108 m / 353 ft
103	Deutsches Haus	Ho Chi Minh City	2017	107 m / 351 ft
104	Three Alliance Center	Atlanta	2017	107 m / 351 ft
105	SLS Puerto Madero Torre 1	Buenos Aires	2019	106 m / 348 ft
105	SLS Puerto Madero Torre 2	Buenos Aires	2019	106 m / 348 ft
107	Hesperia Tower	L'Hospitalet de Llobregat	2006	105 m / 344 ft
108	35xv	New York City	2016	102 m / 334 ft
109	Kollhoff Tower	Berlin	1999	101 m / 331 ft
110	Radio City South	Toronto	2005	101 m / 331 ft
111	Edifício São Luís Gonzaga	São Paulo	2000	101 m / 331 ft
112	300 West 6th Street	Austin	2002	100 m / 328 ft
113	Jumeirah Frankfurt Hotel	Frankfurt am Main	2009	99 m / 325 ft
114	Millennium Tower	Amsterdam	2004	98 m / 320 ft
115	Dreischeibenhaus	Düsseldorf	1960	95 m / 311 ft
116	BS Design Corporate Towers	Fortaleza	2019	92 m / 302 ft
117	Transamerica Tower	Toronto	2004	90 m / 295 ft
118	The Residence of Avondale, South Tower	Toronto	2004	84 m / 276 ft
119	IQ-Quarter Tower 3	Moscow	2015	84 m / 274 ft
120	The Bernardin	Chicago	2005	83 m / 272 ft
121	NEO Bankside Building C	London	2013	83 m / 271 ft
122	Jazz Carolina Sucupira	Fortaleza	2020	82 m / 269 ft
123	The Residence of Avondale, North Tower	Toronto	2004	81 m / 266 ft
124	Mirante Lagoa Nova	Natal	2015	81 m / 265 ft
125	Rica Forum Hotel	Stavanger	2001	80 m / 262 ft
126	Svyatogor 1	Chelyabinsk	2008	79 m / 259 ft
127	Orion Residence	Umuarama	2021	78 m / 256 ft
128	Svyatogor 2	Chelyabinsk	2008	76 m / 249 ft
129	Helbor Trend Joinville	Joinville	2012	68 m / 223 ft
130	Pointe 400	St. Louis	1967	66 m / 216 ft
131	Scheepvaart en Transport College	Rotterdam	2005	65 m / 214 ft
132	NEO Bankside Building B	London	2011	61 m / 200 ft
133	Seattle Central Library	Seattle	2004	60 m / 196 ft
134	JNBY Headquarters Building D1-5	Hangzhou	2019	45 m / 148 ft
134	OōEli Hotel	Hangzhou	2020	45 m / 148 ft
136	JNBY Headquarters Building E	Hangzhou	2019	42 m / 139 ft
137	NEO Bankside Building A	London	2011	41 m / 135 ft
137	NEO Bankside Building D	London	2012	41 m / 135 ft
139	JNBY Headquarters Building A1-2	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
139	JNBY Headquarters Building A3-4	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
139	JNBY Headquarters Building A5	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
139	JNBY Headquarters Building B1	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
139	JNBY Headquarters Building B2-3	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
139	JNBY Headquarters Building C1	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
139	JNBY Headquarters Building D6	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
146	Emmons on 3rd	Seattle	2014	26 m / 86 ft
147	The Forest	Asuncion	2021	- m / - ft
148	Campus Sud des Métiers	Nice	2022	- m / - ft
149	Business Headquarters (BHQ)	Vinings	2021	- m / - ft

Statistics

Average Building Age*

11 Years

Most Common Function*

Office (43%)

Most Common Material*

Concrete (56%)

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Function
Material

Based on 54 buildings over 150 m height with a function

Based on 54 buildings over 150 m height with a material

Building Completions Timeline

Building Map

Construction Time Chart

NOTE: Construction start time is not available for all buildings. The average construction time is only displayed if there is three or more buildings with construction start and complete data in that year.

Create your own charts using the Explore Data tool.

Designated Experts

Markus Jetter

Chief Engineer High Rise and Functional Safety, TK Elevator GmbH

Stuttgart, Germany

Joerg Mueller

Global Highrise Product Manager, TK Elevator GmbH

Stuttgart, Germany

Kevin Robertson

Executive VP Sales & Marketing, TK Elevator GmbH

Atlanta, United States

Stefan Gerstenmeyer

Head of Traffic and Group Control Development | Cluster Lead, TK Elevator GmbH

Stuttgart, Germany

Javier Sesma

Senior Vice President Business Development, TK Elevator GmbH

Bilbao, Germany

Christoph Aebischer

Vice President, Sales Asia Pacific, TK Elevator GmbH

Hong Kong, Germany

Jon Clarine

Head of Digital Services NA, TK Elevator GmbH

Atlanta, United States

Peter Bjorn

Head of Installation Sales, TK Elevator GmbH

Stuttgart, Germany

Ctbuh Leaders At TK Elevator GmbH

CTBUH Awards Best Tall Building Office Jury, 2022

Javier Sesma

Senior Vice President Business Development, TK Elevator GmbH

Bilbao, Germany

Videos

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01 June 2018 | Venice

Occupant Interior Transportation Routes Using MULTI

As part of the ongoing CTBUH research project, "A Study on the Design Possibilities Enabled by Rope-Less, Non-Vertical Elevators", students created hypothetical projects that utilize...

31 May 2018 | Chicago

Liberating the Elevator from Ropes

MULTI – the world’s first and only rope-less, sideways-moving elevator – ushers in the end of the 160-year reign of rope-dependent elevators, harnessing the power...

30 October 2017 | Sydney

CTBUH Research: Design Possibilities Enabled by Rope-Less, Non-Vertical Elevators

During the CTBUH 2017 International Conference, held in Sydney, delegates who visited the CTBUH research booth were presented with an introductory video of questions being...

16 March 2017 | Chicago

How High Can We Go? (Highlight)

Thursday, March 16, 2017. Chicago, United States of America. Hosted in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the first event in the Building Tall lecture...

16 March 2017 | Chicago

Building Tall Skyscraper Lecture Series: How High Can We Go?

Thursday, March 16, 2017. Chicago, United States of America. Hosted in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the first lecture of the series Building Tall...

18 October 2016 | Shenzhen

CTBUH 2016 China Conference - Panel,"Tall Buildings and Context: How High Can We Go and Why Should We?"

Tuesday, October 18, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Ron Klemencic, Magnusson Klemencic Associates; Karl Almstead, Turner Construction Company; Andrew Nicholson, CBRE; Jon Pickard, Pickard Chilton; Ian Smith,...

17 October 2016 | Shenzhen

The State of the Art (Technologies) Q&A

Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. David Malott, Kohn Pedersen Fox; Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Fing An Financial Centre; Karl-Ott Schoellkopf, Thyssenkrupp, answer questions at...

17 October 2016 | Shenzhen

New Approaches for Efficient People Transportation in Both Dimensions – Vertically and Horizontally

The trend of growing cities with permanently increasing populations will require new and visionary solutions for mobility in urban areas. Moving people as we are...

27 October 2015 | New York City

2015 New York Conference - Session 4d - Q&A

Markus Jetter & Stefan Gerstenmeyer, thyssenkrupp; Shelley Finnigan, ArcelorMittal; John Mizon, Schindler, answer questions at the end of 2015 New York Conference Session 4d: Technological...

27 October 2015 | New York City

A Next Generation Vertical Transportation System

The world’s first rope-free passenger elevator system for high-rise applications enables the building industry to face the challenges of global urbanization. This presentation presents the...

Research

17 October 2016

New Approaches for Efficient People Transportation in Both Dimensions – Vertically and Horizontally

Karl-Otto Schoellkopf & Joerg Mueller, thyssenkrupp Elevator

The trend of growing cities with permanently increasing populations will require new and visionary solutions for mobility in urban areas. Moving people as we are...

26 October 2015

A Next Generation Vertical Transportation System

Markus Jetter & Stefan Gerstenmeyer, ThyssenKrupp

The world’s first rope-free passenger elevator system for high-rise applications enables the building industry to face the challenges of global urbanization. MULTI represents the realization...

16 September 2014

Energy-Efficient Elevator Solutions for High-Rise Buildings

Patrick Bass, ThyssenKrupp

Maximizing capacity with smart and energy-efficient elevator solutions for the high-rise buildings of the world’s inaugural metropolitan century.

Global News

25 October 2022

Office Tower in Hudson Yards Development Officially Opens in New York City

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed a skyscraper in New York City as part of the Hudson Yards development in Midtown Manhattan. Called...

19 February 2021

Sixth Building in New York City Megadevelopment Tops Out

50 Hudson Yards, the practice’s latest building in New York has officially topped out. The LEED Gold-designed, 58-story office development forms an integral part of...

01 December 2020

Toronto Bus Station to be Replaced with Skyscraper

This Friday, 4 December 2020, after almost two decades in service, GO Transit's old Union Station Bus Terminal will be fenced off and closed to...

11 November 2020

Investment Manager Purchases 52-Story Seoul Office Building

ARA Asset Management has purchased Parc 1 Tower B, an office building in Seoul, for over ₩1 trillion (US$1.2 billion), in a deal slated to...

08 July 2019

Plans for 101-Story Apartment Building Revealed in Moscow

The 405-meter One Tower in Moscow is set to become one of the tallest residential buildings in Europe, the deputy mayor of Moscow announced as...

15 April 2019

New Architects Brought in for Manchester’s St. Michael’s Tower

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been brought in to deliver Hodder + Partners’ controversial Saint Michael’s tower in Manchester, with the local practice kept...

15 March 2019

New York City’s Hudson Yards’ Shops, Restaurants, Officially Open to The Public

At noon on March 15, 2019, New York’s newest neighborhood ceremonially opened for business. Hudson Yards‘ first public-facing attractions, the Shops & Restaurants and Thomas...

01 March 2019

As One Chicago Lakefront Project Gets a New Deadline, Another is Announced

The owner of the Chicago Spire site could have another year to begin developing the lakefront site, four months after a downtown alderman rejected a...

21 January 2019

“Tower Fifth” Could Become New York City’s Second-Tallest

For decades, the New York City skyline was dominated by one building, the 1,250-foot-tall (381-meter) Empire State Building. But 17 “supertall” skyscrapers — defined as...

27 March 2018

New Elevator Test Tower Opens in Zhongshan, China

The proliferation of supertall towers around the world continually drives innovations in building engineering, and thyssenkrupp Elevator is at the forefront when it comes to...

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CTBUH Initiatives Involving TK Elevator GmbH

Vertical Transportation Working Group Meets at 2018 Conference

Skybridges Research Project Holds First Meeting

CTBUH Launches Two New Research Projects

CTBUH Beijing Hosts Innovative Building-Making Presentations

Master's Thesis Challenge

CTBUH Rope-Less, Non-Vertical Elevators Team Holds Second Meeting

World’s First Rope-Less Elevator Unveiled in Germany

CTBUH Germany Hosts Symposium on Technical Innovation

First CAF-CTBUH Lecture Series Draws Crowd, Rave Reviews

AITS: Design of Tall Buildings Seminar

2016 CTBUH Leaders Meeting Report

Research Kick-off Meeting: Rope-Less, Non-Vertical Elevators

Making High-Rise Work

Inaugural Japan Symposium Rises to the Occasion in Tokyo

ThyssenKrupp Launches MULTI Ropeless Elevator System

CTBUH 2014 Shanghai Conference Silver+ Sponsor

Vertical Transportation Workshop, Shanghai 2014