staircases

Vine Architecture Studio brightens up Mile End Road home with yellow staircase and skylights

March 7, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Mile End Road by Vine architecture studio

Vine Architecture Studio has refurbished a rooftop apartment in east London, with features including a yellow spiral staircase and generous rooflights that fill the interior with daylight. Mile End Road is a compact one-bedroom apartment that shares a stairwell with offices below, and both share the use of the roof terrace areas. Locally based Vine Architecture

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OMA adds iridescent glass escalator to New York’s Saks Fifth Avenue

February 21, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Saks staircase by OMA

Dutch architecture firm OMA has updated the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Manhattan with a glass escalator that appears multicoloured from different angles. OMA’s stair connects the ground, first and lower levels of Saks Fifth Avenue and creates a diamond-shaped atrium, with the first floor visible from the ground level. The glass panels that

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10 staircases designed by Sri Lankan modernist Geoffrey Bawa

February 14, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Geoffrey Bawa staircases: The Raffel House, Colombo, 1963

Every staircase designed by Geoffrey Bawa is unique says David Robson, the leading expert on Sri Lanka’s best-known architect. In a Dezeen exclusive, he picks out the 10 that are most worth knowing. The late Bawa was one of the driving forces behind the style of architecture known as tropical modernism, combining his education in the UK

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Brick staircase and rooftop terrace gives public space back to Mashhad

February 8, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Bouzarjomehr Co. Gallery and Showroom by WHY Architects Group

Why Architects Group has converted a residential building in Mashhad, Iran, into a commercial showroom for the Bouzarjomehr Company with a brick staircase leading to a public roof terrace. The Iranian architecture studio transformed an existing dilapidated house into a showroom space for the Bouzarjomehr Company, which specialises in distributing cables and wire. Rather than demolishing and

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Dow Planetarium revitalised as Centech incubator in Montreal

December 20, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0
Dow Planetarium by Menkes Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes

Canadian firm Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes has rehabilitated a planetarium in Montreal into an incubator for entrepreneurship and technology, and retaining its viewing area. The Dow Planetarium in Montreal was converted into a building for Centech, a non-profit incubator to support technology and entrepreneurship. The structure was built 45 years ago, but closed in

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COBE’s extension to Danish Red Cross headquarters has “urban living room” on its roof

December 14, 2018 Lizzie Crook 0

A giant staircase tops the new Red Cross Volunteer House in Copenhagen, designed by architecture studio COBE to double as a public meeting place. The triangular building is an extension to the Danish Red Cross headquarters. Its tiered roof branches out from the second floor of the old building and steps all the way down to street

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Dezeen’s top 10 staircases of 2018

December 4, 2018 Fiona Hartley 0

Continuing our review of 2018, social media assistant Fiona Hartley picks the 10 most impressive staircases of the past year, including a flowing structure made from oak and a set of cantilevered pink steps. Portico Palmeto, Mexico, by TACO Mexican firm TACO chose to use pink-tinted concrete for the staircase of its own headquarters in Mérida, on Mexico’s Yucatan

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Maison du Parc in Montreal features stark interiors with “mysterious depth”

November 17, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Black and white spaces, including a sculptural staircase and a wine cellar, are found across this brick house overhauled by Montreal firm La Shed Architecture. Maison du Parc, or Park House, is a three-storey residence in the Canadian city that has received a rear extension and a dramatic interior renovation. La Shed Architecture gave the

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