series of steps between floors
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Frank Gehry // Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, UTS
by Zeb Saiyed & Demas Rusli
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series of steps between floors
It isn’t a surprise that interior designers and architects get creative when they are designing
element, creative freedom its basic function.
stairs because it represents an which can have a lot of as long as it fulfils
Stairs represent as a catalyst between two different entities which would otherwise never be combined. It also represents a climb or in other words, an Ascend. Instead of just serving the basic need, it can be so
integrated in to a becomes an ornament Stairs have an
humdrum
design that the stairs of the build.
eternal appeal,
not just as
roots up or down but as a
vehicle
for conveying the character of the spaces they grace, thus this article involves. It also makes you concrete on the subject of the stairs more and less on what’s going around.
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Porebski Architects // Porebski Architects Office Building
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FJMT Studio // Charles Perkins Centre, USYD
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Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects // One Central Park
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Hassell Studio // Macquire Park Railway Station
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Rudder and Grout // The Century Hotel
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Denton Corker Marshall // Faculty of Engineering and IT Building, UTS
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Durbach Block Jaggers and BVN Architecture // Science and Graduate School of Health Building, UTS
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Durbach Block Jaggers and BVN Architecture // Science and Graduate School of Health Building, UTS
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Tokin Zulaikha Greer // Customs House
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FJMT Studio // Darling Quarter Footbridge
Halfway up the stairs Isn’t up, And isn’t down. It isn’t in the nursery, It isn’t in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts Run round my head. It isn’t really Anywhere! It’s somewhere else Instead!
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—A. A. Milne
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