10 staircases: with treads in fabric, stone and copper
Steps that lead to the depths of cellars and the tops of roofs, or unorthodoxly to nowhere at all.
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- Jessica Mairs
- 13 January 2019
The apartment renovated by Amin Taha + Groupwork in London features a load bearing cantilevered travertine staircase with its underside left as ‘quarry found’.
Meticulously replicating the architecture of the places in which he has lived and worked, Do Ho Suh’s structures talk about migration and shifting identities.
The scientific centre by CEBRA in Copenhagen features a helix staircase that welcomes you with its radiating copper cladding as soon as you pass the entrance.
The mixed use structure by JAJA Architects features a massive green facade and two large public stairs that bring visitors to a playground on the rooftop.
To commemorate the 75 years of Rotterdam reconstruction, MVRDV designed a 29 meters high staircase with 180 steps, in front of the city’s Central Station.
The štajnhaus – or guest house – designed by ORA architects in Mikulov, Czech Republic, brings back the historical traces of a building with a Reinassance core in the former Jewish quarter of the town.
Designed by ACME studio in Shoreditch, London, this self-supporting wooden staircase has been CNC cutted and easily assembled on site.
The project by MAP Architects allows the visitors to enter and experience the archaeological layers at hand’s reach, walk upwards to access facade openings and balconies.
Designed by NEXT Architects, The Elastic Perspective is a giant circular stair based on the principle of the Moebius strip for a local art plan in Barendrecht, the Netherlands, that appears like a rusty steel ring gently draped upon a grass hill.
i29 interior architects designed the interior of the tower for de Bijenkorf’s Artist in Residence project: an installation that brings together two worlds in one space, playing with scale and perception.