Monday, October 8, 2012

Staircase Designs

Staircase Designs!

Some you'll love, some you'll detest and others you can only hope nobody has ever slipped
and hurt themselves! 
Below are unique and creative staircase designs. Not necessarily the
most beautiful or functional, just a collection
of interesting concepts that push the boundaries
of staircase designs into bold and often handrail-less territories.


1. Bookshelf Staircase

looking up and looking down a bookshelf staircase
Design by Levitate

2. Lello Bookshop in Porto, Portugal

famous lello bookshop in porto portugal stairs from above

3. Stairs with a Slide

stairs with slides

4. Floating Stairs

black floating stairs with no handrail
Design by École

5. Magic Mountain Stairs in Duisburg, Germany

6. Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brazil by Oscar Niemeyer

oscar niemeyer brazil foreign ministry staircase
oscar niemeyer brazil foreign ministry staircase

7. Storage Stairs

8. Curvaceous Staircase

curvaceous staircase
Design by Atmost Studio

9. Suspension Bridge Staircase

suspension bridge with stairs

10. Platform Staircase

miniature platforms staircase

11. Ribbon Staircase

staircase from one continuous piece of material
Design by HSH

12. Wavy Staircase at Longchamp Store in New York City

wavy staircase

13. Staircase Made from Shipping Pallets

staircase made of shipping pallets

14. Spiral Staircase with No Center Pole

freeflowing spiral staircase
Design by Patrick Jouin

15. Foldable Attic Staircase

attic staircase foldable

16. Half Spiral

half spiral staircase
Design by Alberto Mozó

17. Shadow Patterns

staircase that creates shadow patterns

18. Hanging Staircase

hanging staircase

19. Hollowed Tree Trunk Staircase

20. Floating Concrete Staircase

21. Floating Staircase

floating staircase design

22. Vertebrae Staircase

stairs that look like human spine vertebrae

23. Split-Level Staircase

split level staircase
Design by nC2architecture

24. Suspended Staircase

suspended staircase

25. Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada

Stairs / Ramp
Photograph by Dean Bouchard

26. Stair Tree

27. Death-Defying Floating Staircase

scary floating staircase

28. Stairs Everywhere

Design by 24H Architecture

29. Wedge Stairs

triangle staircase

30. Umschreibung (Rewriting) by Olafur Eliasson – Munich, Germany

Umschreibung (Rewriting) staircase sculpture by olafur eliasson
Design by Olafur Eliasson

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