Climbing Up 2

For the Love of Stairs -- ArchDaily

Source: Andy Ryan Dezeen.com

Department of Philosophy, New York University, New York City, New York, USA, 2007 designed by Steven Holl Architects

The Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and a committee of Philosophy Professors collaborated in the selection of Steven Holl Architects to design the complete interior renovation of a 1890 corner building at 5 Washington Place for the consolidation of the NYU Department or Philosophy within a concept which organizes the new spaces around light and phenomenal properties of materials. A new stair shaft below a new skylight joins the 6-level building vertically with a shifting porosity of light and shadow that change seasonally. -- Dezeen

Source: Julian Weyer

Vitus Bering Innovation Park, University College Vitus Bering, Horsens, Denmark, 2009 designed by C. F. Møller Architects

The building’s dynamic and innovative character is expressed via its spiral shape. On the facades, the movement is seen in the glazing strips that stretch towards the sky across the six storeys of the building and create the impression of a spiral sequence, while internally it is expressed via the main staircase in green fibre cement, which runs in a spiral form between the storeys in the unifying internal atrium.  -- ArchDaily

 Source: Clive Wilkinson Architects archdaily.com

Ropemaker, Ropemaker Place, London, UK, 2011 designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects

Macquarie’s Ropemaker Place was designed as a model for a new transparency in banking services revolving around an open atrium and connecting staircase. -- ArchDaily

Source: Hertha Hurnaus archdaily.com

Science Park Linz, Linz, Austria, 2012 designed by Caramel Architekten

Vertical connection channels “pierce” the upper floor space, flooding the circulation and combizone with light and offering communication opportunities, meeting areas, and a modern “science-work climate” -- ArchDaily

Source: ARTEC Architekten archdaily.com

Multi-generational: Living at Mühlgrund, Vienna, Austria, 2012 designed by ARTEC Architekten

A cascade stair in the narrow zone between the corridor and the metal wall leads from the main entrance on the west side, through the building, to the top level. In between is a vertical garden with 1000 plants in eleven 7-metre-long, prefabricated-concrete planters, whose tension cables were developed three-dimensionally. -- ArchDaily

Source: Shen Zhonghai archdaily.com

Design Collective, Qingpu, China, 2012 designed by Neri & Hu

The staircase wrapping the interior of the main exhibition space leads the visitor throughout the multiple levels of display where the furniture can be experienced from varying spatial relationship and viewed form different vantage points and voyeuristic snippets of retail display. This journey is accentuated as the visitor climbs higher through the gallery levels by the seven large openings in the roof which serve to allow daylight into the exhibition space while at once generating a moment of visual release from within the introverted exhibition environment. -- ArchDaily

Source: Peter Cuypers archdaily.com

De Burgemeester, Burgemeester Pabstlaan, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, 2013 designed by Studioninedots

We space. That’s our name for this communal area at the heart of the building. It’s a place that brings people together. Out of the concrete floors we carved a 14-metre-tall void that houses a giant staircase that cuts diagonal lines through the void as it makes its way upwards, linking the different floors to one another. Now people are on the move, making their way back and forth on the timber steps. Some of them linger for a chat, and there’s space on the broad treads to sit for a moment. -- ArchDaily

Detail in Contemporary Staircase Design -- ArchDaily