All Blog Posts Tagged 'Staircase' (4)

Beautifully Lit Spiral Staircase (6 pics)

Speirs + Major designed this magnificent cylindrical chandelier to provide light for a new spiral staircase in Edinburgh's Usher Hall - one of Scotland's historic art venues. The cylindrical, concrete walls meant it was almost impossible to fix lighting in a way that would appear architecturally integrated. Their solution was to create a 45 foot (13.8 meter) long suspended… Continue

Added by Eugene on November 24, 2010 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Scary Staircase With No Handrail!

Is someone playing a joke on us? Are these stairs actually supposed to be used? No, not quite. Hanging high in the sky is a scary stairway made by conceptual artists and architects Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann. The metal steps are attached to the exterior concrete wall of a towering Swiss skyscraper. They're ten stories off the ground and do not come with a safety… Continue

Added by alice on October 9, 2010 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

Strikingly Beautiful Framed Staircase (4 pics)

Designer Stuart Haygarth, in collaboration with framing company John Jones, created this strikingly beautiful staircase using 31 types of frames in various colors, sizes, and styles.

In total, the frames' profiles reach over 650 yards (600 meters) in length and feature hundreds of individual pieces, cut, mitred, joined, sanded, and colored in special… Continue

Added by Eugene on September 21, 2010 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Staircase to Nowhere

Consistently making the top 10 lists as one of the world's most beautiful staircases, this steel structure by Olafur Eliasson is truly a piece of art. Called Umschreibung (or Rewriting), it was created in 2004 for KPMG Munich, Germany.… Continue

Added by alice on May 3, 2010 at 8:00am — 5 Comments

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