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  2. Loretto Chapel - Wikipedia

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    The chapel was commissioned by the Sisters of Loretto for their girls' school, Loretto Academy, in 1873. Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy had brought in two French architects, Antoine Mouly and his son Projectus, to work on the St. Francis Cathedral project, and suggested that the Sisters could make use of their services on the side to build a much-needed chapel for the academy. [4]

  3. Scala Regia (Vatican) - Wikipedia

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    The staircase proper takes the form of a barrel-vaulted colonnade that necessarily becomes narrower at the end of the vista, exaggerating the distance. Above the arch at the beginning of this vista is the coat of arms of Alexander VII, flanked by two sculpted angels. Plan of the Scala Regia

  4. List of ancient spiral stairs - Wikipedia

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    The spiral stair is a type of stairway which, due to its complex helical structure, has been introduced relatively late into architecture. Although the oldest example dates back to the 5th century BC, [ 1 ] it was only in the wake of the influential design of the Trajan's Column that this space-saving new type permanently caught hold in ancient ...

  5. Cologne Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    2: Spire height: 157 m (515 ft) [1] Bells: 11: ... stone steps of the spiral staircase to a viewing ... with detailed tracery merging with that of the windows above.

  6. Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo - Wikipedia

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    Giorgio Spavento is believed to have been responsible for the addition of the grand spiral staircase on the exterior in 1499. [2] The Palazzo del Bovolo was chosen by Orson Welles as one of the main locations (Brabantio's house) for his 1952 adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, and the staircase is prominently featured in the film. [3]

  7. Stairs - Wikipedia

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    The alternating stairs (3) requires one unit of space per step: the same as the half-width stairs (2), and half as much as the full-width stairs (1). Thus, the horizontal distance between steps is in this case reduced by a factor of two, reducing the size of each step.

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