now, this could make for some very interesting new skyscraper shapes. It just needs bold enough architects (which I'm sure are plenty) and very wealthy investors, who might be more difficult to find. But I bet this'll be eventually used somewhere in Dubai.,(reply>), Not sure if it has enough horizontal space  to not be extremely lazy but doesn't the TV building they did for the beijing olympic games qualify as interesting shape for this?,(reply>), Currently elevators are most limiting factor in building skyscrapers (from engineering stand point). The higher you go the more shafts you need and you need sky lobby at every ~150m. So the higher you go shafts takes more and more space to the point when almost all space is taken by shafts (and you still need emergency staricases). <br><br>With elevators like in this video you can have multiple carts in one shaft, and shafts can go from bottom to top without sky lobbies. It's save huge amount of space and passengers time, thus it's also can save money even if it's much more expensiv than traditional elevators.<br><br>You don't need any crazy desin to benefit.,(reply>), This could open up a lot of space for sure. Though that could also lead to a worsening rich door poor door situation.,(reply>), @amduser86 More importantly, you can have an up shaft and a down shaft.,(reply>), +Creepopolous Kinda depends on the exact type of station but of course most designs that scale that large are usually planned to have spin gravity anyway and generally don't have all that many levels rather they just have large radii with the stuff around the outsides so you are mostly going to be talking about conventional horizontal maglev more likely, though if it had many floors a system that could pick up a section of guideway complete with train on top and move it to another floor could be a good idea though not worth it with most designs only having a handful of floors easier to just have stations with stairs or perhaps conventional elevators to get between floors with platforms on each.