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A stair flight is a run of stairs or steps between landings. A stairwell is a compartment extending vertically through a building in which stairs are placed. A stair hall is the stairs, landings, hallways, or other portions of the public hall through which it is necessary to pass when going from the entrance floor to the other floors of a building.
The Haʻikū Stairs, also known as the Stairway to Heaven or Haʻikū Ladder, is a steep, steel step structure that is being dismantled and removed as of 2024. It provided pedestrian access to former U.S. Navy communication facilities on the island of Oʻahu , Hawaii [ 1 ] with more than 3,000 steps along O‘ahu's Ko'olau mountain range . [ 2 ]
An 11 km (7 mi) road - Tongtian Avenue - with 99 bends also reaches the top of the mountain and takes visitors to Tianmen cave natural arch in the mountain of a height of 131.5 m (431.4 ft). [2] As with the mountain, the cave translates as Heaven's Door/天门 and has a 999 step entrance known as "the Stairway to Heaven."
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Before the photograph was bought by Microsoft in 2000, the hill returned to its previous state as a home to vineyards. [ 4 ] [ 44 ] Despite this, photographers have tried re-creating Bliss . [ 36 ] The Goldin+Senneby duo visited the site in Sonoma Valley in November 2006, where Bliss was taken, re-photographing the same view now full of grapevines.
The Potemkin Stairs in Odesa, Ukraine. In architecture, a perron generally refers to an external stairway to a building. Curl notes three more-specific usages: the platform-landing reached by symmetrical flights of steps leading to the piano nobile of a building; the steps themselves; or the platform base of edifices like a market cross. [1]
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