An obscure building code is ruining apartments and stopping new ones from getting built. The answer? Fewer stairs.

Similarly, to get people to opt more often to take stairs, the stairs just have to be more visible. “Being able to see a staircase when you’re in a lobby greatly increases the likelihood that you will ...

The stairs snake upward through a series of open lobbies with seating, inviting students to linger. Interdisciplinary thinking is an explicit goal of the architecture.

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Some stairs stretch the limits of human imagination, says Eva Jiricna, architect and author of Staircases. "Sometimes it is the technical knowledge that sweeps us off our feet, another time the ...

In public architecture, stairs demonstrate the movement of the body around the space, but they can also become a living space. Thinking of the maxim "see and be seen", ...

As part of our review of 2022, we have selected 10 staircases published on Dezeen this year, including stairs that turn, twist or double as seating.

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The detail-obsessed will love 1100 Architect's carefully crafted aluminum stairs in this Chelsea gallery By Jason Sayer • December 23, 2016 • East , Interiors SHARE ...