The design of that store was the work of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and featured a pair of zebrawood stairs — Koolhaas dubbed them “The Wave” — that could also be used for seating and ...

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The architect Morris Lapidus understood this ... By A.D. 80, when the Romans opened their Colosseum, stair seating brought a familiar hierarchy: The wealthier and more important people got to ...

The stairs snake upward through a series of open lobbies with seating, inviting students to linger. Interdisciplinary thinking is an explicit goal of the architecture. At the top is a pair of so ...

Today, stair-crafting ingenuity continues, with many staircases doubling for incredible feats of gravity and eye-popping works of art. “We like to think of them as practical sculptures,” said ...

which weaves into and halts the flow of suspended timber bursting up the stairs from the commercial lobby. Above the seating in front of the bar, large holes have been punched into the concrete ...

To encourage Bloomberg's Hong Kong employees to interact more, architecture studio Neri&Hu has given them a staircase with generous landings, seating areas ... rule that this stair should be ...