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
2. Lello Bookshop in Porto, Portugal
3. Stairs with Slides
4. Floating Stairs
5. Magic Mountain Stairs in Duisburg, Germany
6. Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brazil by Oscar Niemeyer
7. Storage Stairs
8. Curvaceous Staircase
9. Suspension Bridge Staircase
10. Platform Staircase
11. Ribbon Staircase
12. Wavy Staircase at Longchamp Store in New York City
13. Staircase Made from Shipping Pallets
14. Spiral Staircase with No Center Pole
15. Foldable Attic Staircase
16. Half Spiral
17. Shadow Patterns
18. Hanging Staircase
19. Hollowed Tree Trunk Staircase
20. Floating Concrete Staircase
21. Floating Staircase
22. Vertebrae Staircase
23. Split-Level Staircase
24. Suspended Staircase
25. Robson Square, Vancouver, Canada
26. Stair Tree
27. Death-Defying Floating Staircase
28. Stairs Everywhere
29. Wedge Stairs
30. Umschreibung (Rewriting) by Olafur Eliasson – Munich, Germany
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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