A lot of architects love a lot of stairs a lot. The theater-curtain-red set in Times Square (Perkins Eastman, 2008) has been selfied around the world. The New School’s University Center (SOM, 2013) ...
In a typical office building, stairs tend to be strictly utilitarian: a way to get up and down and nothing more. When they’re windowless, cement-walled, and fluorescently lit, it’s not surprising that ...
Laboratory of Architecture #3 has just opened a stunning public library whose design was inspired by playground slides. Located in Tbilisi, Georgia, the Mediathek Library’s rectangular shape “floats” ...