Elevators can do so much more than vertical transport. I love when the building design uses the elevator to create cool. So I’ll do some posts over the next few weeks about the world’s coolest elevators.

The AquaDom in Berlin is a 82′ tall elevator enclosed in a glass aquarium at the Radisson Blu Hotel.

The 12.8M Euro AquaDom project was completed in 2004. The World Geography article describes it well:

The outside cylinder was manufactured on-site from four pieces; the inside cylinder for the elevator was delivered in one piece. The Aquadom is the largest acrylic cylindrical aquarium in the world, with a diameter of about 11 metres (36ft), and it is built on a 9 metre (30ft) tall foundation.

Filled with 1,000,000 litres of water, it contains over 1,500 fish of 50 species. The feeding of the fish and the cleaning of the fish tank is performed daily by 3-4 divers. The fish need 8 kg of fish food.