Architect Visit: Stairway Roundup
From Sarah
From Sarah and Julie:
We've rounded up some stairways from various architects we admire, near and far.
Below: Brooklyn townhouse by Front Studio.
Below: Brooklyn townhouse by Studio ST Architects.
Below: New York City townhouse by Steven Harris Architects.
Below: A stairway in Belgium, from the New York Times.
Below: Prospect Heights row house by Brooklyn-based Delson or Sherman Architects.
Below: Tribeca residence by Selldorf Architects.
Below: Stairway from Belgian firm Stam.
Below: Stairway from Belgian firm In Search Of.
Below: Tokyo house by Makoto Koizumi, via Dwell.
Below: A San Francisco staircase by Feldman Architecture.
Below: A stairway in London from Boyarsky Murphy.
Below: A stairway from the Threefold House by Japanese firm Takao Shiotsuka Atelier; via Materialicious.
Below: Plus House prefab near Stockholm by Swedish architects Claesson Kolvisto Rune for Arkitekthus. Via David Report.
Below: A stairway in a New York City loft by Selldorf Architects.
Below: Ten Broeck cottage by NY architects Messana O'Rorke.
Below: House in Sweden by Johannes Norlander.
Below: South Kensington house by UK-based Hogarth Architects, via Treehugger and Dezeen:
Below: London stairway by Daskal & Pierre.
Below: Stairs in Turin by architect Claudio Silvestrin from the portfolio of architectural photographer James Morris.
Below: Minimalist stairway by Venice, CA-based Sander Architects; via Materialicious.
Below: Mountain house in Switzerland by Andreas Fuhrimann and Gabrielle Hachler of AFGH Architects; via Materialicious and Platforma Arquitectura.
April 17, 2008
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you should check out the stair thread on pushpullbar.
40 pages of amazing stairs
lovely round up.
thanks for your great inspiration, as always!
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
Hear, hear, Tom D! How can one get around installing handrails? (Those Tokyo stairs are especially stunning, btw.)
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....
beautiful!
A nice survey of staircase design. It would be interesting to see a similar survey of space saving, really small staircases. I have a vertical house with a 23x31footprint and would like to replace the existing large staircase with something much smaller.
