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A Giant Gallery of Unique Staircase Designs

staircase at lello bookshop in porto portugal

 

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

 

 

 

1. Bookshelf Staircase

 

Design by Levitate

 

 

 

2. Lello Bookshop in Porto, Portugal

 

 

 

 

3. Stairs with Slides

 

 

 

 

4. Floating Stairs

 

Design by École

 

 

 

5. Magic Mountain Stairs in Duisburg, Germany

 

Design by Heike Mutter + Ulrich Genth

 

 

 

6. Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brazil by Oscar Niemeyer

 

 

 

 

 

7. Storage Stairs

 

 

 

 

8. Curvaceous Staircase

 

Design by Atmost Studio

 

 

 

9. Suspension Bridge Staircase

 

 

 

 

10. Platform Staircase

 

 

 

 

11. Ribbon Staircase

 

Design by HSH

 

 

 

12. Wavy Staircase at Longchamp Store in New York City

 

Design by Heatherwick Studio

 

 

 

13. Staircase Made from Shipping Pallets

 

Design by Most Architecture

 

 

 

14. Spiral Staircase with No Center Pole

 

Design by Patrick Jouin

 

 

 

15. Foldable Attic Staircase

 

 

 

 

16. Half Spiral

 

Design by Alberto Mozó

 

 

 

17. Shadow Patterns

 

 

 

 

18. Hanging Staircase

 

 

 

 

19. Hollowed Tree Trunk Staircase

 

 

 

 

20. Floating Concrete Staircase

 

 

 

 

21. Floating Staircase

 

 

 

 

22. Vertebrae Staircase

 

Design by Philip Watts Design

 

 

 

23. Split-Level Staircase

 

Design by nC2architecture

 

 

 

24. Suspended Staircase

 

Design by Chae-Pereira Architects

 

 

 

25. Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada

 

Photograph by Dean Bouchard

 

 

 

26. Stair Tree

 

 

 

 

27. Death-Defying Floating Staircase

 

Design by Schlosser + Partner

 

 

 

28. Stairs Everywhere

 

Design by 24H Architecture

 

 

 

29. Wedge Stairs

 

Design by TAF Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Stahlbom

 

 

 

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

 

Design by Olafur Eliasson

 

 

 

Sources

http://pinterest.com/search/?q=staircase
http://pinterest.com/search/?q=stairs
http://pinterest.com/elainen/amazing-staircases/
– Google Image Search: “Unique staircases”, “Amazing Staircases”
http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/world-s-coolest-staircases.html
http://www.houzz.com/photos/staircase
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/05/14/edificio-bip-by-alberto-mozo
http://www.boredpanda.com/creative-staircases/
http://www.oddee.com/item_96882.aspx
http://enpundit.com/amazing-staircases/
http://weburbanist.com/2008/11/26/creative-modern-stairs-staircase-designs/
http://www.atmosstudio.com/Sensualscaping-Stairs

 

 

 

 

 

 

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