Arch. Myriam B. Mahiques Curriculum Vitae

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Surreal stairways to nowhere

Concept design by artists and architects Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann
Weburbanist.com has analized 15 surreal artistic staircases to nowhere. Here some examples and the link to read the full article.
Jacques-Andre Istel believes that he has identified the exact center of the world, and that it is on his own land in Felicity, California
Danny Lane’s staircase seems to defy physics.
Do-Ho Suh’s staircase would seem as if it were barely there, diaphanous and airy, suspended from stainless steel tubes.  It’s part of a series called Reflections
Artist Michel de Broin twisted a set of stairs into an endless knot in the work ‘Revolutions.’
Lang and Baumann´s design
Olafur Eliasson’s sculpture, entitled Rewriting
artist Rachel Whiteread´s design
Designed by Dutch sculptor Rudi van de Wint, this majestic spiral staircase stands as an appropriate memorial for the 248 passengers who lost their lives during one of the deadliest accidents in the history of aviation, the crash at the Tenerife Airport in 1977
‘Floating Staircase’ by Ursula Von Rydingsvard

2 comments:

  1. que diseños espectaculares!

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  2. Sí anonymous, y me quedaron pendientes las escaleras de la Winchester House en California, sumamente interesante.......:)
    Saludos,
    Myriam

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