Solid & Minimal
Category: metal stairs / straight stairs
September 1, 2010
Two contrasting styles of stairs combined in this sleek design. Via chictip
Posts Tagged ‘Architectural Stairs’
Floating Stairs
Category: cantilevered stairs / floating stairs
August 31, 2010
Arch11 have designed the Syncline house near Boulder, Colorado
Laser cut Doily
Category: metal stairs
August 27, 2010
Amazing laser cut balustrade inspired by doilies. Via AMD architecture (Jason, sorry it has taken so long to be posted)
Minimal Balustrade
Category: metal stairs / spiral stairs
August 26, 2010
modern-interior-and-spiral-staircase-design-01The structure on this spiral has been paired down to an absolute minimum. Love it. Via banjarinfo
Floating Balustrade
Category: concrete stairs
August 23, 2010
Very elegant steel ribbon acting as balustrade. Stone treads have a circular hole to allow light to penetrate into the lower parts of the stairwell. Via Dailytonic
Origami
Category: floating stairs
August 18, 2010
Folded steel treads to give an origami effect. Via Dezeen
Metal Stairs
Category: metal stairs
August 17, 2010
Floating steel treads with perforated metal balustrade. Via Melbourne Stairs Pty Ltd.
Stunning Sustainable
Category: floating stairs / timber stairs
August 13, 2010
Bamboo staircase supported by raking vertical fins. Via EeStairs and EeDesign
Polygons
Category: metal stairs
August 12, 2010
An observation tower comprising of 2 polygonal staircases. Via abitare
Curved Concrete
Category: concrete stairs / helical stairs
August 9, 2010
The eye-catching spiral staircase references Dali’s fascination with DNA, the golden rectangle and the Fibonacci series.
Madness in Maastricht!
Category: floating stairs
August 4, 2010
Weird suspended staircase by Weil Arets Architects. Via dezeen
U steel profile
Category: floating stairs / metal stairs
July 29, 2010
Cantilevered stairs using steel profile in a house in Rotterdam. Sent in by Alex Schicht.
Timber Wall, Floating treads
Category: floating stairs / straight stairs / timber stairs
July 26, 2010
Simple but elegant multi flight staircase supported by timber clad wall. Via Archdaily
Ribbon Staircase
Category: floating stairs
July 12, 2010
The concept of a delicate rippling ribbon was chosen in view of the exposed position of the staircase in the main living area of the house.
Opaque treads and risers
Category: glass stairs
July 2, 2010
Opaque treads and risers and slender stringers combine to create a breathtaking staircase. Via Design-milk
Absolute minimalism
Category: floating stairs
June 25, 2010
Absolute minimalism. How does this stand up?
Back to basics
Category: metal stairs
June 23, 2010
Thick folded steel forms the treads balustrade and support. Minimalism at its best. Carlo Scarpa staircase via the Straight Torquer
Stair to Nowhere
Category: glass stairs / miscellaneous
June 21, 2010
Glass staircase which leads nowhere in central New York. Via archdaily
Maximum Impact
Category: glass stairs
June 15, 2010
A hidden curved staircase gains you access to glass stair over the lobby area. Being high up on the glass staircase maximises its exposure and impact on the user. Via Dezeen
Round and round
Category: helical stairs
June 14, 2010
Multi flight elliptical staircase just goes on and on and on……
Organic floating
Category: straight stairs
June 10, 2010
This very clean design from Dutch Architect UN Studio has an organic floating quality. This is a project in New York, private home.
Suspended
Category: floating stairs
June 9, 2010
This dynamic suspended staircase also has boxes as the first 3 treads leading up to it. Via archdaily
Zig Zag
Category: straight stairs
June 8, 2010
Brightly coloured flights of stairs which criss cross along an atrium.
Don’t hide the steel
Category: straight stairs / timber stairs
June 1, 2010
The space required a thoughtful stair link to incorporate adjacent design elements with the desire for a strong geometric pattern.
Webnet
Category: concrete stairs
May 19, 2010
Brutally minimal balustrade comprising of stainless steel wire ropes and webnet.
Flower Power
Category: straight stairs
May 18, 2010
10mm thick Swiss pearl fibre cement panels with a pattern created from natural elements taken from the canyon site.
Chaos Balustrade
Category: miscellaneous
May 17, 2010
This balustrade is pure chaos in a house renovation, but we like it.
Mirrors and colour
Category: helical stairs / metal stairs
May 14, 2010
A very striking staircase with blood red treads and risers with polished stainless steel wall. Via UN STUDIO,Mumuth The House for Music, 2008, Austria
Curling treads
Category: straight stairs / timber stairs
May 12, 2010
Nice detail on this flight of stairs into the living quarters of a yacht.
Grandiose mix of modernism and traditional Islamic design
Category: helical stairs
May 10, 2010
Grandiose mix of marble, steel and glass.
Chameleon House by Anderson Anderson Architecture
Category: metal stairs
May 6, 2010
This fire escape on a domestic dwelling demonstrates that steel stringers are extremely proficient at holding up staircases. Via materialicious
Harley Davidson- Scottsdale, AZ
Category: helical stairs
May 4, 2010
This helical staircase is very reflective of the shiny Harley Davidson motorcycles at the Desert Hacienda Harley Shop in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Vitra Haus by Herzog & de Meuron
Category: straight stairs / timber stairs
April 28, 2010
When stairs collide
Mamilla Hotel, Jerusalem
Category: dog-leg stairs / metal stairs
April 21, 2010
The black steelwork stands out against the stonework
Casa em Lousado by Correia Ragazzi
Category: floating stairs / straight stairs / timber stairs
April 15, 2010
Unusual horizontal steel balustrade, but looks gives the stair some dynamic.
La Finca 4 House in Somosaguas by A-cero
Category: cantilevered stairs / floating stairs / glass stairs / straight stairs / timber stairs
April 14, 2010
Nice simple timber treads stainless steel stringer and glass balustrade staircase
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Category: straight stairs
April 6, 2010
Illusions of walking on water in the contemporary galleries at YBCA, San Francisco.
Harmonia // 57 Office Building Sao Paulo
Category: concrete stairs / floating stairs
April 1, 2010
Cantilevered or floating external staircase, supported on a wall garden. Via bustler.
Brand-New Secondhand
Category: metal stairs / space saving stairs
March 31, 2010
Impossible thin stringers. Via Dwell.com
Deco inspired in Rye NY
Category: straight stairs / timber stairs
March 29, 2010
An endless light show is created as the hidden LED’s scroll through all the colors of the rainbow, or choose a color to suit your mood for the evening. This Deco inspired staircase has a pattern sandblasted into the glass railings with black walnut and stainless handrails, black walnut treads and stringers of brushed and polished stainless. www.stevemorrisdesigns.com
Youth Center in Rivas Vaciamadrid
Category: miscellaneous
March 24, 2010
Balustrade to a small sunken lecture theatre. Via Archinet
Helical Cable stair
Category: helical stairs / metal stairs
March 19, 2010
Steel treads supported by Jakob cabling system. Jakob
HONEYCOMB in Shenzhen by Keiichiro Sako/SAKO Architects
Category: helical stairs / spiral stairs
March 15, 2010
70’s Sci-Fi staircases in Shenzhen, China. Via architecturephoto.net
Pentagon, skeleton staircase
Category: helical stairs / timber stairs
March 12, 2010
This wonderfull staircase is the rebuilding or imitation of a backbone.
Please see nice other designs on www.sillertreppen.com
EeStairs trappen special: Zig Zag
Category: cantilevered stairs / metal stairs
March 9, 2010
Another interesting staircase from EeStairs in Holland, check out the contiunous ribbon of steel. Neat how the open risers are echoed by the front door as well.
Helical Stair – by Chris Rowland
Category: glass stairs / helical stairs
March 5, 2010
Laminated glass treads with blue interlayer and sandblasted log to top tread. Curved toughened glass and mild steel stringers. Chris Rowland designs stairs as Clear Edge Design working with a number of fabricators in SE England.
Twisting beam with glass
Category: center-stringer stairs / glass stairs
March 4, 2010
Philip Watts Design in Nottingham, England specialise in no compromise avant-garde staircases. This one features a helical rolled beam that has structurally bonded glass treads and rises within a glass shaft. Domestic client in London
Mercedes Benz Museum
Category: metal stairs / miscellaneous / straight stairs
February 25, 2010
HG studio of Stuttgart and Berlin recently designed the Mercedes Benz Museum situated in Stuttgart , where 120 years of Automobile History is represented trough an impressive double helix, sort of like an automotive DNA strand. Of course everything inside is silver!
The stairs share much with the entrance to the building ‘Veles et Vents’ by [...]
YTL Residence in Kuala Lumpur
Category: helical stairs
February 24, 2010
Take a look at the soffit on this helical stair situated in an incredible luxury home. via Lilo Magazine
Parma #33
Category: dog-leg stairs / metal stairs
February 23, 2010
Stefano Cerruti’s apartment by Carlo Carossio. Via +MOOD
house on paros island
Category: miscellaneous / stone stairs
February 22, 2010
paros, greece
architect Metaxas
photographer D.Benetos
House in Galicia by A-cero Architects
Category: miscellaneous / stone stairs
February 17, 2010
Check out the grass! Via contemporist
Rathaus in Rosenberg / Ecker Architekten
Category: metal stairs
February 15, 2010
Constructed from a single sheet of 4mm folded steel and then stiffened by the balustrade. The guarding for the entire stairwell is constructed from a single band of woven stainless steel conveyor belting, suspended from a bracket above, and held in tension from below. archdaily
Glass stair in a glass drum
Category: floating stairs / glass stairs / helical stairs
February 12, 2010
Love the glass drum. By Balthaup Via contemporist
DNA Stair from Studio P-H-A
Category: floating stairs / glass stairs / stone stairs / straight stairs
February 9, 2010
Via treehugger
Centro de exhibiciones de Bilbao
Category: glass stairs / helical stairs
February 8, 2010
Massive helical staircase. How many rises without a rest landing? Via plataformaarquitectura
Melting stair by Philip Watts Design 2001
Category: center-stringer stairs / helical stairs / metal stairs
February 5, 2010
A dripping melting staircase, over looking a Glacier in the French Alps by maverick uk design and fabrication company Philip Watts Design
Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Zimmern by Ecker Architekten
Category: concrete stairs
February 5, 2010
A pre-cast concrete stair with circular, etched-glass lights connects the two levels of the Community Center in Zimmern (North Baden), Germany. The solid stainless steel railings have a bead-blasted finish. Constantin Meyer Photographie.
www.ecker-architekten.de
Via ArchDaily.
Art Institute of Chicago – The Modern Wing
Category: glass stairs / metal stairs / straight stairs / timber stairs
February 4, 2010
Large staircase with minimal steelwork suspended. Via Architonic
Green
Category: helical stairs
February 3, 2010
A staircase, located in Dresden, Germany, Saxony, a part of the library of the University of Technology. It’s a part of the new build of the IT
Faraglioni Stairs
Category: concrete stairs
February 2, 2010
This is a wonderful villa in Capri, designed by Italian architect Adalberto Libera and built between 1936 and 1943 for the writer Curzio Malaparte. On the right side, very near, you can see the worldwide famous Faraglioni, a Capri symbol.
Acqua Liana
Category: glass stairs / helical stairs / metal stairs / timber stairs
January 29, 2010
Suspended helical stair, which accounts for tiny stringers. Beneath the glass floor is a tiled lotus pond.Via Palm Beach Daily
Hall Tobin Stair by Sam Crawford Architects
Category: cantilevered stairs / dog-leg stairs / metal stairs / timber stairs
January 28, 2010
photography by Brett Boardman
Volver a Casa Negra / Andres Remy Arquitectos
Category: miscellaneous
January 27, 2010
via plataforma arquitectura
Hanasaki House in Yokohama by MoNo
Category: cantilevered stairs / floating stairs / stone stairs
January 26, 2010
Chunky concrete cantilvered stair for a single occupancy residence in Japan. Via materialicious
EeStairs trappen special: Sculpural staircase on Mega-Yacht
Category: cantilevered stairs / glass stairs / helical stairs / timber stairs
January 26, 2010
An ‘EeStairs trappen special’, this sculptural helical staircase was installed in the Mega-Yacht NorthLander. It winds up 3 flights to the upper-deck where it terminates in a self sealing glass structure. This unusual stair was supplied by Dutch company ‘EeStairs’. As they say in Holland ‘Trappen met uitstraling en allure’.
Thor Heyerdahl School
Category: metal stairs / straight stairs
January 25, 2010
Via e-architect.co.uk
A House – FKL Architects.
Category: cantilevered stairs / floating stairs / glass stairs / stone stairs / straight stairs
January 22, 2010
via designzine online
Stair with slide
Category: glass stairs / metal stairs / straight stairs
January 21, 2010
Every kid (and adult male?) dream stair. Via crunchgear
Ashmolean Museum by Rick Mather Architects
Category: glass stairs / straight stairs
January 18, 2010
Multi flight staircase with tapering glass panels. Via Dezeen
Julia Stoschek house-museum in Düsseldorf
Category: straight stairs / timber stairs
January 15, 2010
Timber treads and rises with grain in different direction to the norm. Via Architonic.com
Jozef Health Center Deventer, the Netherlands
Category: dog-leg stairs / timber stairs
January 14, 2010
With the transformation of a 50’s monastery building into a health center, One Architect had to find a way to open up a closed building. The solution was erecting a central staircase in the original chapel opening up all the wings of the building. Made of wood, the staircase resembles a piece of ‘church furniture’. [...]
Technology Center Medical Science – Berlin
Category: helical stairs
January 11, 2010
Double flight helical staircase with lights in the soffit. Via the coolhunter
House Tower – Bow Wow Architects
Category: floating stairs / metal stairs / space saving stairs / straight stairs
January 8, 2010
Extremely compact Japanese house with suspended staircase. Privacy is limited! Bow Wow Architects
The Torres House by GLR Arquitectos
Category: cantilevered stairs / metal stairs / straight stairs / timber stairs
December 23, 2009
This cantilevered straight stair projects from the building allowing views of the gardens. The stair is enclosed in glass to protect users from the elements. Via contemporist
The Julliard School / Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects
Category: straight stairs / timber stairs
December 15, 2009
A lecture theatre and staircase combined in a school, NYC. Via archdaily
New look StairPorn™
Category: concrete stairs / miscellaneous
December 2, 2009
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Steckelhorn 11 by J Mayer
Category: straight stairs
November 16, 2009
Fantastic building with multi-flight straight stairs in a triangle shape on plan. Via Contemporist
Sky Stairs
Category: cantilevered stairs / floating stairs / straight stairs
October 29, 2009
An extraordinary and terrifying staircase by conceptual artists and architects Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann. Via Dornob
Livraria Da Vila Stairs
Category: helical stairs
October 20, 2009
Livraria Da Vila bookstore in Sao Paulo, designed by Isay Weinfield, via wejetset
Californian timber stairs
Category: straight stairs / timber stairs
October 15, 2009
Wide flight with closed risers leading into a narrower open riser stair supported by a full height partition. Designed by Predock Frane Architects via Contemporist
Armani Store NY
Category: miscellaneous
September 30, 2009
Armani Store New York. Design by Massimiliano Fuksas
Stairs in movies: Mon Oncle, 1958
Category: center-stringer stairs
September 6, 2009
“Mon Oncle is a French comedic film from 1958 by director Jacques Tati. The film deals with France’s post war obsession with modern architecture.”
The Invisible Agent
Lots of grand staircases by Treadsetters
Category: spiral stairs / timber stairs
August 25, 2009
Treadsetters
A grand staircase filled with flowers
Category: miscellaneous
August 10, 2009
Les Fleurs Hotel
Interview with the architect, Lucchese
Stairs in a villa by Javier Barba
Category: helical stairs / stone stairs
August 10, 2009
Architectural Digest
Wood spiral stairs by Alberto Mozó
Category: spiral stairs / timber stairs
August 10, 2009Edificio BIP by Alberto Mozó @ dezeen
Stairs in the Ceramics Museum
Category: helical stairs / stone stairs
August 10, 2009
clickykbd’s photostream
Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City
Category: stone stairs
June 18, 2009
Luis Castañeda’s flickr photostream
Stairs and Ramps
Category: concrete stairs / ramps
June 18, 2009
McCormick Tribune Campus Center on Flickr
