Strange Stairs
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 11. 8.07
Earlier this year all the internets were showing a stairway with storage built into it; Here are more innovative designs via Deputy Dog. Staggered stairs are usually found in industrial spaces, but gabriella gustafson and mattias ståhlbom have built this stunning one. It looks dangerous but they are really quite comfortable and safe, with twice the rise for the same run, so they are very efficient for small spaces. However they don't usually look this good.
'multi-millionnaire scott jones decided to splash his cash on a spiral staircase-slide and instantly made a lot of people jealous. local craftsman rodney miller was called upon to create this 17 ft mahogany toy, a job which took a whopping 15 months to finish. the slide also includes fibre-optic lights which can change to 8 different colours." More on his lovely house here.
This stair, somewhere in the Ginza, plays music as you climb. Then of course there is Aaron Tang's wall stairs, another carved out of a single tree and more at ::Deputy Dog.
Mahogany?
This is Treehugger and you call it "lovely"? Right.
LA: This is treehugger and I was being sarcastic.
This also could give more meaning to "starting out on the wrong foot."
Each step only has enough room for a foot if you walk with your feet near the walls.
There is also no toekick space.
And they are patently dangerous.
Gimmicky, unpractical, unsafe, and poorly designed concepts are the antithesis of green.
The staircase in Japan or one like it goes down to the basement in the Sony building, near Ginza metro station, Tokyo
We caused a bit of a traffic jam running up and down it, each tread plays a different sound and lights up.