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House of Stairs is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in November 1951. This print measures 47 cm × 24 cm (18 + 5 ⁄ 8 in × 9 + 3 ⁄ 8 in). It depicts the interior of a tall structure crisscrossed with stairs and doorways. A total of 46 wentelteefje (imaginary creatures created by Escher) are crawling on the ...
Stairways — outdoor staircases, and structures for external pedestrian infrastructure, including as park and garden features. Category:Stairs. Subcategories.
The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps, colloquially known as the Moraga Steps, is a stairway in the Golden Gate Heights neighborhood in San Francisco, California. Fodor's calls it "possibly the world's largest mosaic staircase", [3] and it leads up to Grandview Park.
Tiger and Turtle – Magic Mountain is an art installation and landmark in Duisburg, Germany, built in 2011. [1] [2] It was designed by Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter.It resembles a roller coaster, but it is a walkway with stairs.
The Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 [1] [2] [3] ...
A staircase or stairway is one or more flights of stairs leading from one floor to another, and includes landings, newel posts, handrails, balustrades, and additional parts. [4] In buildings, stairs is a term applied to a complete flight of steps between two floors. A stair flight is a run of stairs or steps
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 ...
Stairways in the United States — outdoor staircases, a part of external pedestrian infrastructure in the U.S. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.