Comments on: Architect Visit: Stairway Roundup

By: Jen Skelley

Jen Skelley — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:31:12 +0000

beautiful!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:46:38 +0000

Lovely roundup. You have exquisite taste all around.

Codes here in the States are absurd. But one way architects and designers ‘get away with it’ is to go ahead and install railings where required, have the place inspected, blahblahblah, and the once the inspector is gone, remove the railings….. You’d be surprised how many people do that. Of course, when and if you go to sell the place, the railings/bannisters must be put back in place….

By: Bradford

Bradford — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:48:02 +0000

Hear, hear, Tom D! How can one get around installing handrails? (Those Tokyo stairs are especially stunning, btw.)

By: Tom D.

Tom D. — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:02:08 +0000

What a wonderful collection. Thank you.

I have a question for the more informed among you - we often see some fabulous staircases, free standing or cantilevered, with absolutely no railings of any sort. If I were to try and include this in my plans for our current remodel the building inspector would take one look and laugh his way back to town hall… How do people get around this? Is it a state by state thing? I see so many in various architecture rags but never understand how they get away with it…

Terrific blog by the way

By: lena

lena — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:55:24 +0000

lovely round up.
thanks for your great inspiration, as always!

By: Peter Guthrie

Peter Guthrie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:18:24 +0000

you should check out the stair thread on pushpullbar.

40 pages of amazing stairs