12/20/2023 0 Comments Spiral staircases london![]() ![]() AMP by Hassell Photography by Nicole England. In all its iterations, however, the spiral remains one of the most visually pleasing. Here, the spiral is explored as the connective tissue between floors, as sculpture, as democratic engagement and as a means of prompting chance encounters for impromptu collaboration. ![]() The current iterations are manifold with sinuous form being the only constant. ![]() In doing so, he shifted the form from the prevailing expressions of an enclosed funnel, or ornate pageantry, to one of open contemporary engagement. In 1959 when Frank Lloyd Wright created a spiral building with the Guggenheim, the possibilities for the spiral as an open platform to experience the journey through a building was manifest. (e.g.In the hands of commercial architects, spiral staircases have never been so fitting or so beautifully resolved. Maybe I’ll get accused of being “woke” or something equally terrible but I don’t see a problem in allowing people unfamiliar with something to anticipate whether they’ll be able to get (themselves and luggage/ children) to the far end of a staircase, given that we all have different levels of health - is a bit like a menu showing which option is spicier On the Underground, people might use a particular station to change trains every day but have no idea quite how many meters below street level it is, so be surprised to find themselves climbing half a dozen floors and realising that they aren’t even half way up if I’m in a hotel I might walk up a flight or three to get to room 216 or 316 rather than wait for the lift, but I’d be reluctant to if my room was 816 or 916… if visiting an unfamiliar office I might walk up to meet a Client on the second or third floor but if they are on the fifteenth floor then maybe I’ll forgo the stairs) I think that one big difference is that normally you can either see the far end of the staircase from where you are standing (and therefore know what to expect) or you already know which for you are heading to so can anticipate whether you are fit enough those built around a lift shaft, where each level consistently follows the pattern of the previous, so would look like square/ rectangle/ circle etc from above… but I fear that it’s one of those examples of an incorrect term in the English language that is so commonplace that there’s no point fighting the tide of public opinion… however people on here seem to enjoy being petty and pedantic about the most trivial of issues so I thought I’d mention one of mine) ![]() (Trivially minor thing that’s not a direct criticism of any poster on this thread: I do get irked by the continual use of “spiral” to refer to stairs that aren’t all in one straight line… truly “spiral” stairs would be a much wider radius at the other end, they look like the line on a shell when viewed from above on a cross section… stairs that see each level directly above the ones below are a helix, and should really be “helical”… I can’t think of any genuine “spiral” staircase on the railway network, but there are plenty of “helical” examples, e.g. ![]()
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