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Here's how one of the staircases looked in 2014 …
The bride and groom descended down opposite staircases at NYPL.
There are ballgown reveals on grand carpeted staircases (royal trope).
Image courtesy Chris RodleyMerging dinosaurs and drawings of random staircases?
"There's no escalators, there's only staircases to success," she said.
Makeshift staircases and ladders can be seen in these homes.
When he tried evading her, she learned his routes over rooftops and down staircases into other buildings on the block, and knew which staircases to charge up to intercept him and lead him home.
So why the hell are there so many staircases in space?
Inside, the habitats have four levels inside, connected by spiral staircases.
Millennials, it seems, don't like staircases, or clearly defined room boundaries.
But these days, on the sidewalks, staircases and escalators, chaos reigns.
The Vessel is made up of 154 interconnected staircases, 80 landings ...
Ladders and staircases are common features found in small living spaces.
I thought about men with machetes, pedophiles, high staircases, electrical sockets.
I also like walking around all the staircases in Silver Lake.
Inside, the staircases were jammed with the city's brightest young things.
I've made bûches in all sorts of shapes — handbags, staircases, cars.
Tucked between them is one of the neighborhood's grand outdoor staircases.
Everyone I know warns me that spiral staircases are huge pains.
Staircases in Space: Why Are Places in Science Fiction Not Wheelchair-Accessible?
Explore various levels of the house via staircases covered in Argentinian cowhide.
A swirling maze-like decline of staircases is a beauty in design.
It also has dual staircases, which were inspired by the White House.
They likely hid in the basement, which is accessible by multiple staircases.
Employees streamed down staircases as firefighters rushed in, heading to the roof.
Floors are organized into "neighborhoods," with open staircases and unifying decorative schemes.
There are staircases that are rusting, but you can feel the solidity.
Hill House is a beautiful — if decrepit — mansion, adorned with statues and staircases.
Residents told CNN the building had two staircases, one constructed of wooden pallets.
The sculpture's finish also coincidently matches the ones you see the Guggenheim's staircases.
The two-story foyer has two grand staircases leading to the second level.
Inside, the upper flights of two stone staircases hang above rubble-strewn voids.
At the bottom, you can choose to start at one of several staircases.
The store's twin curved stone staircases are clearly the highlight of the space.
Most of the interior is original, including polished oak floors, fireplaces and staircases.
Life-size elephant sculptures with staircases and viewing platforms inside serve as playhouses.
A location scout was studying the long staircases for use in a commercial.
People were trapped nearly 1,000 feet up in both towers, their staircases blocked.
The dollhouse has four stories, five rooms, a balcony, and two spiral staircases.
The main house has front and back staircases, an office and a basement.
A carved wood door opens to a foyer and one of two staircases.
Hammams and wine cellars top many amenity lists for new developments, but staircases?
Antique tile floors, wood paneling and sometimes even whole staircases end up overseas.
Also new: a beer garden, shops, grand staircases and a gigantic video display.
First, there&aposs an entryway with massive staircases and an advanced security system.
The building's exposed staircases inspired the exhibition title Pabellón de las Escaleras (Stairs Pavilion).
It was compared to a photo taken on Wednesday which showed both staircases empty.
He would excitedly descended the gritty staircases, and laugh when he saw massive rats.
"Scaffold" is made up of a platform with several staircases leading up to it.
It's a psychedelic trip that winds through narrow openings and up twisting spiral staircases.
It also requires hard work, hence the staircases but lack of upward moving escalators.
They become abstractions from afar, with doors and staircases visible upon a second look.
Amalfi has only one street, and the rest of the paths are steep staircases.
In a room with miniature models of stage sets, a conversation about staircases ensued.
The box is suspended five metres above visitors' heads, supported by only two staircases.
Don't miss the completely refurbished wall-to-wall marble ceiling and two grand staircases.
That gives it the agility to bounce over uneven surfaces and also to climb staircases.
Behind a statue of Henri IV on the bridge are staircases that descend two flights.
Court security guards cleared the fifth floor of the courthouse and staircases of all press.
These dark openings are what sit at the bottom of the staircases we saw earlier.
The Vessel, in Hudson Yards, has a hundred and fifty-four staircases and eighty landings.
There are two lofts in this tiny house, each with their own set of staircases.
"You'll often see officers inside the staircases, and outside of the apartment complexes," she said.
I ran up wooden staircases in buildings constructed hundreds of years ago to reach him.
They had finished inspecting the roof and had proceeded to inspect the staircases from above.
His library includes some unexpected secrets, like hidden staircases, fake bookcases, and a steel vault.
Its theatrical magic comes from movement: swirling capes, moving staircases and miraculously fast identity switches.
The lobby sets an equally regal tone with grand staircases, high ceilings, and sparkling chandeliers.
Finally, she found a company that specialized in old staircases and, for $244,22016, fixed hers.
The GrEEK Campus comprises five large buildings with classrooms, a library, offices and sweeping staircases.
But now even ordinary things like staircases are drawing crowds, thanks to movies like "Joker."
"These glass staircases and dead ends formed in my mind a year ago," she said.
Though these pictures and staircases don't move, the attention to detail is still highly impressive.
The second level is reached by two staircases that also go to the lower level.
Staircases are designed to be fireproof compartments in their own right, and to keep smoke out.
Small engines allowed, and staircases encouraged, a design that kept the fuselage close to the ground.
We're big fans of 1986's gaudy confection which features multiple tiny staircases and dry ice.
A labyrinth of offices, staircases, office buildings, parking garages, tunnels, and corridors ensnares victims and suspects.
The crown molding and grand staircases can't hide the wear and tear of nights of parties.
In the lobby, I was met with towering flower bouquets, elegant staircases, and gleaming marble surfaces.
People stared from the windows of the Towers, trapped by smoke and flames and destroyed staircases.
On either end of the building were gigantic staircases connected to the building by a drawbridge.
He is also keen to exploit the building's visually rich public spaces, its staircases and corridors.
Bronze cherubs adorned the staircases of the upper landings, where first-class passengers liked to meet.
Moebius strips and M.C. Escher staircases and even the more mundane visual tricks of optical illusions.
The guests filled the spired City Hall's vaulted, chandeliered ballroom, colonnaded hallways and red-carpeted staircases.
The main living spaces are on the second floor, which can be reached by two staircases.
Located up a series of staircases, the Royal Tombs have richly decorated colonnades on both sides.
In fact, Harrods had among the first "moving staircases" in Britain, making its debut in 1898.
Some foreigners jokingly pose for photos that exaggerate their struggles with small doors and narrow staircases.
The pictures contrast human traces like abandoned toothbrushes and rumpled straightjackets with marble staircases and neoclassical domes.
The site contains more than 30 eccentric structures, including plant sculptures and winding staircases that lead nowhere.
Vaulted ceilings, grand staircases, and even the castle's original color schemes were all repaired, refurbished, and reinstated.
Images of spirals, ­staircases and mazes appear often, as do uneasy references to the passing of time.
The garland that lines the staircases is marked with simple string lights to let the evergreen shine.
The street was lined with drab stucco apartment buildings, whose uncovered staircases led down to carports below.
The palace has about 1,100 rooms, 100 staircases and nearly three miles of passageways over four floors.
Concrete staircases leading to an empty upper level were some of the only structures I saw standing.
The 40-person metalwork firm fabricates such staircases, along with feature walls and other large-scale works.
The health benefits of ascending stairs, however, have been the impetus for staircases in many buildings today.
Two staircases — one at the front of the house and the other in the kitchen — lead upstairs.
The house is surrounded by small gardens, a section of lawn and staircases made of weathered steel.
The larger, powerful vacs work great if you have deep carpeting or routinely vacuum staircases or cars.
The chambers of Anne's heart, like the "passages, staircases and closets" of St. James's Palace, are neglected.
Garg said the fire broke out on the building's second floor, and it only has two staircases.
That includes $60,000 to include a green-energy unit and add fireplaces, staircases, and a floating floor.
The stunning elegance of staircases like this one stood in contrast to their current state of disrepair.
They were lit from within, and inside were staircases that characters would use for entrances and exits.
The most suggestive things were all the signs of opulence of the interior: bright colors, imperial staircases.
In each space there were heavily riveted spiral staircases leading to a metal mezzanine running around the perimeter.
She instead salutes architecture: it is the guesthouse's walls, ceilings, floors, and staircases that she chooses to celebrate.
Staircases appear unclimbable, almost like bookcases; landings are abstract areas, with banisters offering a slight illusion of space.
The exhibit space sits in the center of the two-story lobby, with staircases wrapping around each side.
The less fortunate must resort to "parks, dark staircases, the beach and even the Malecon (seafront)," Trabajadores wrote.
Many tenants struggle even to pay the 25 euro annual fee to light communal areas such as staircases.
In the stone-flagged entrance hall is one of the most unusual staircases you are likely to find.
After a scene change, light suddenly floods onto the gorgeous ballroom, with its balconies and three grand staircases.
Groups of young men have occupied all 18 floors of the building, with its cramped unlit narrow staircases.
"Their staircases are in our dining room here," said Darlene Skarupski, who owns the restaurant with her husband.
Colonnades and grand staircases abound, as do ingenious decorative grids of circles, stripes, diamonds, stars, and floral motifs.
They're incomplete — the winding passages and narrow staircases that stand in for streets are impossible to document fully.
In some cases, the Port Authority had to send staircases and buses to rescue passengers from stranded planes.
The doubling imagery, the recurring spiral staircases, and so much else engulfing Chloé make this thriller unusually engrossing.
Groups of young men have occupied all 18 floors of the building, with its cramped unlit narrow staircases.
The centerpiece, a copper-color honeycomb Thomas Heatherwick sculpture called "Vessel," has intertwining staircases open to the public.
Steep staircases, no elevators on major stations and huge, crushing crowds are often daunting for visitors from abroad.
Two staircases, front and back, ascend to the second floor, where there are four bedrooms and three bathrooms.
There are Tiffany and Lafarge windows, two hand-carved staircases, and upper- and lower-level areas for art storage.
Fans fascinated by the moving staircases Harry navigates at school can check out Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide.
You'll find them stashed away in random places (beneath staircases; on shelves in barns) and they're always worth opening.
He had been touring staircases all afternoon, and a person can only take so many steps in a day.
Police could be seen circling the growing crowd that gathered outside the staircases leading up to the mosque's entrance.
Instead of traditional structures with inward-looking courtyards, their architects now design wide staircases that connect to the street.
Scroll through Explorest to find a surfeit of futuristic high-rises, minimalist staircases, and rooftop views perfect for selfies.
The FBI had watched Chapman and the others for months, recording drop-offs of packages and meetings on staircases.
The mansion has eight bedrooms, 11 fireplaces, Venetian plastered walls and two elliptical staircases, according to The Real Deal.
"When I talk about the blocks, my blocks do have human faeces and piss on the staircases," he says.
A typical Adam set is a vast, open-plan, multi-levelled chamber threaded together by ramps and floating staircases.
Finally, you ascend handsome, unadorned oak staircases to either of two halls: a large auditorium or a chamber space.
Some of the old statues, walls, ironwork, and staircases still exist, but you have to know where to look.
Your child will love to set fairytales among its four levels, five rooms, a balcony, and two winding staircases.
Two more secret staircases — also hidden behind bookcases — can be found in the corners of the complex's main library. 
Since modular homes require only minimal work — to add staircases and finishes — local contractors are available for more projects.
Here, one of two service staircases rises up to a shower room, kitchenette and a 285-square-foot bedroom.
The museum's slippery staircases were tricky terrain for the models, though at press time, no falls had been reported.
Mr. Donahue found he preferred the feel of a newer, bigger building, with long hallways rather than narrow staircases.
Urban nearly upstaged the talents with views of gilded staircases, underwater dreamscapes, tropical groves and castles wreathed in clouds.
Formerly an architectural metal fabricator constructing gates and staircases, Giles turned her creative skills to working with softer mediums.
That means fitting chains on bus tires, firing up hundreds of snowblowers, and assembling platoons to shovel snow off staircases.
It's already a giant jungle gym for adults; an experiential fort with dozens of suspended hallways, staircases, and viewing decks.
Built for the first Duke of Devonshire, the Cascade consists of a long series of stone staircases flowing with water.
The exhibition is small, tucked away behind central staircases leading to the Virgil Abloh show upstairs and a theater below.
Feet have marched up and down those impossible staircases, with the soles of shoes leaving subtle scuffs on each step.
"Savile would seize the opportunity for sexual contact, even in public places such as corridors, staircases and canteens," it said.
All around me, people have their jaws dropped, fawning over the glass, the marble staircases that line the inner walls.
Set closely together, they also appear almost as a continuous set of impossible staircases, deceiving like an M.C. Escher vision.
The nine-bedroom, nine-bathroom home features twin grand staircases, sky-high ceilings, a horse paddock and a home theater.
Dancers worm out of narrow corridors, down staircases, and part the crowds as they make their way to the stage.
The sculpture cost an estimated $200 million to build and features 803 interconnected staircases, nearly 2,500 steps, and 80 landings.
Inside, the floating reactor is a warren of tight corridors, steep staircases, pipes, wires and warning signs in Cyrillic letters.
Old men sit on chairs in the lobby, and children play on the staircases, calling to each other between floors.
Inside is a bewildering array of staircases, a labyrinth that leads down to the monastic library (there is no elevator).
Inside, the Fairmont looks much as it did in the 1930s, with marble floors and staircases, columns and gilded accents.
The nearby off-road course includes a simulated rocky riverbed, a real sand pit, a craggy hill, and cement staircases.
The interior is airy and open, with walls of glass, porthole windows, and two separate staircases designed to facilitate circulation.
The main floor has a 2,500-square-foot living area as well as a 1,500-square-foot mezzanine with two staircases.
The younger Stoker will guide guests through the estate, which is full of dimly lit hallways, secret passages and spooky staircases.
While some robots can now move seamlessly and find balance and others are learning to use staircases, Motobot is riding motorcycles.
Here's a fun $983 million tower of staircases that invites visitors to clamber—but only under ludicrously strict conditions and control.
Desperate, women were throwing themselves down staircases, ingesting pesticides, and thrusting sharp objects into their cervix, causing death, infertility, and illness.
Many of these buildings, with their exposed wiring, sagging staircases and broken sewage pipes, have been declared unfit to live in.
Nothing really repeats, exactly, most excitingly in the broad corridors along the building's east facade, where staircases alternate with big windows.
In total, the renovation calls for 103 bathrooms, 11 bedrooms and five staircases and is expected to be complete by December.
Getting a glitzy new building with an indoor prairie, open space and bright yellow staircases is a fine way to celebrate.
Airbus recently suggested configuration changes, which include moving one of the double-decker aircraft's staircases to fit even more passengers inside.
The sculpture's designer, Thomas Heatherwick, said it was partially inspired by Indian stepwells, where you take staircases down to the water.
"You could just rent staircases," he said of the connections between his viewing platforms, estimating that the project would cost $25,000.
Things like elevators, winding staircases, or sprawling mansions are fun for kids because they're different from what we see every day.
That construction was the bane of local business, but it's now largely complete, and the widened staircases are in heavy use.
There are also cool little staircases that crisscross the neighborhood that a lot of people climb up and down for exercise.
Winchester spent $5.5 million on her 24,000-square-foot home, which has 160 bedrooms, 40 staircases, 13 bathrooms, and 47 fireplaces.
The house is comprised of five rooms, a balcony, four stories, two spiral staircases, and even includes a hidden clock tower.
The main level is connected by staircases and an elevator to the floors above and below (which also have lookout areas).
It did not ask for a new mandate on second staircases for escaping blazes, which remain optional in many cases, too.
His interpretations of the barrios in Caracas include staircases and structures that defy gravity, a world where García Lorca meets Escher.
Lifting a house can exceed $100,000, between adding the new foundation, replacing sewer and electric lines, constructing staircases and regrading property.
At the busy Times Square transit hub, the platforms were so crowded that lines stretched up staircases and onto the concourse.
That shouldn't be surprising because germs and bacteria are everywhere: on doorknobs, subway seats, staircases, your cat, your dog, your face.
Tiny house owners often devise creative solutions to storage problems, such as tables that fold away or pantries hidden beneath staircases.
Some walls are made of unfinished concrete, giving the building, which has open-air staircases, an almost work-in-progress look.
Consider that in this week's episode as "Dougie Jones" scribbles ladders, staircases and lines on page after page of insurance paperwork.
A visit below the stage, via a series of concrete staircases, made clear where things went wrong for the renovation project.
Front and back staircases ascend to the upper level, more than half of which is taken up by the master suite.
You can make bridges, staircases, and more, and the game manages to add inventive new twists constantly to keep things feeling fresh.
New robots are no longer flummoxed by staircases and doorknobs; clever software is capable of driving cars and carrying on (rudimentary) conversations.
Arched windows overlook the land, while cast fireplaces, and mahogany staircases accent the interiors of the large two-to-three bedroom apartment.
The fact that the Bronx criminal courthouse is not fancy is no shocker—no grand marble staircases like those at my courthouse.
Inside, the women navigated a series of hallways and staircases leading to a basement, where "The Holy Virgin Mary" is being stored.
The interior of a termite mound is an intricate structure of interweaving tunnels and passageways, radiating chambers, galleries, archways, and spiral staircases.
She and her husband left their house on a lake with multiple staircases and moved into a senior community in Novi, Michigan.
The Winchester mansion in San Jose is a labyrinth, filled with staircases that lead to nowhere and doors that open into walls.
The Hahne's building, a gracious structure with grand staircases, wrought-iron banisters and a 6,000-square-foot atrium skylight, is an example.
Elsewhere in Noailles, fabled for generations as a food-shopping district, it is common to see rusty steel girders propping up staircases.
You go up a flight of stairs and arrive on a landing where you are faced with a choice between two staircases.
From the start, Heatherwick Studio envisioned Vessel as a series of staircases and landings that call to mind the stepwells in India.
On a Saturday this past fall, hundreds of people were waiting in an hourlong line to climb the staircases of Angkor Wat.
Strong, stable, easy to process, durable and attractive, Afrormosia has been sought after for shipbuilding, flooring, French windows, staircases, paneling, and cabinets.
And, when you're done going up and down all those staircases, the handle tilts to provide a device stand (like for a tablet).
Threading between houses are skinny public staircases, as at the end of Central Avenue, that serve as handy cut-throughs on steep terrain.
The Palace of Westminster is a maze of sticky-carpeted little bars, poky wood-lined offices and forgotten meeting rooms up twisting staircases.
The trauma from that day is still palpable when officers walk by the staircases and other spots where their colleagues died, he said.
Now there's a beaten trail with staircases and handrails along the lip of the canyon where we could look down and take photos.
He embraced plywood as an interior finish, illuminated spaces with strip fluorescent lighting, and used steel pipes to make the handrails of staircases.
The device uses little power and can be placed on existing staircases to make climbing and descending easier on the knees and ankles.
Throughout the house, you can find staircases that lead to nowhere, doors that open onto walls, and rooms with windows on the floor.
Think sweeping marble staircases with golden handrails, a 16-seat dining room, a beach club and sauna, and a 40-foot infinity pool.
Pros: Beautiful design and accessories; tall and spacious; fun features like a clock tower, spiral staircases, and a glass slipperCons: Dolls not included 
He's also looking for an installation space to create a card catalogue of dreams indexed by topic: birds, bones, calendars, seashells, staircases, creeks.
The main house, which has two exterior staircases, is perched in the treetops above the driveway and parking lot, overlooking the Caribbean Sea.
Modica was nearly obliterated after a 1693 earthquake and consists of upper and lower areas, joined together by steep, narrow roads and staircases.
But that's what he did this spring, adding 11-foot wood pilings and switchback staircases beneath his 1930 house on Long Beach Island.
The main house has twin staircases leading to the second-story veranda, which includes a cozy lounge and elegant open-air dining table.
Suffice it to say, for those who have their own spiral staircases in glossy black fiberglass, the leap may not amount to much.
JMP Wood specializes in creating dream staircases, and its staff full of artisan wood-makers work to make each of its projects unique.
Throughout, with greater subtlety, the movie alludes to the mechanisms of the plot by setting major scenes on staircases or in railway stations.
Perry found a potentially new species in the Gulf of Eilat that prefers plastic buoys and pieces of metal on piers and staircases.
Narrow spiral staircases made from hand-carved blocks of Chilean cypress connect the tower to the kitchen and living room in the podium.
The images showed a lobby area that extends a story below ground, accessible via two staircases hugging the sides as well as two elevators.
But he doesn't idealize, lionize, or create a mythical aura around buildings; rather, he captures architectural details — windows, staircases, facades, columns, support beams, hallways.
The quake struck while many people were asleep, and roofs and staircases of some buildings collapsed in Imphal, a city of about 270,000 people.
The trailer teases that the facility — with all its winding staircases and stark-white laboratories — might not have its patients best interests at heart.
LA's working on an ambitious interactive urban trail system within the city that uses existing pedestrian infrastructure like the city's hundreds of public staircases.
There are turrets, balconies, grand foyers, wrought iron that isn't actually wrought, crystal chandeliers that are probably made of glass, and spiral staircases galore.
Their eclectic, modern design style comes through in the bold yellow cabinetry in the kitchen and blue velvet covering on one of the staircases.
And spaces that were just functional in other complexes were reimagined as "social spaces": appealing courtyards, wide staircases, and covered walkways designed for interaction.
The toilets constantly overflowed, the speakers were older than most of Das Bunker's patrons, electrical systems blew out, and handrails dangled from iron staircases.
For much of its length, you're simply trudging further and further down an infinite series of tunnels and staircases in a mysterious gray city.
More than 160,000 pounds of wood were used to construct Embrace, and festival attendees could make their way through its interior on spiral staircases.
The 35-foot gramophone — reminding attendees of vaudeville, jazz, and speakeasies — sat on top of a nine-foot box with a railing and staircases.
The mini-fridge-sized vehicles will have speakers and microphones to chat with humans, and their six-wheel treads can even climb small staircases.
Beyond the school's numerus shifting staircases, Renee Fabian at The Mighty notes a minigame called "gobstones" that requires characters to sit on the floor.
The 150-foot-tall sculpture, which cost $200 million to build, according to Curbed, includes 154 interconnected staircases, nearly 2,500 steps, and 80 landings.
Photos from inside the building show marble floors, wood-paneled columns, grand staircases, a light, open atrium, and impressive views from the top levels.
The men here are at ease with nature, and we see them lifted, walking on air, descending spiral staircases, climbing steps, plunging into flight.
Many staircases associated with the approximately 65,000 elevators in New York City remain difficult to get access to because of safety and security concerns.
I was capable of doing things, as a total scrub, even if that just meant breaking a bunch of crap and building useless staircases.
It was a slashing satire of show business, with slapstick mayhem, horned demons, collapsing staircases and fun-house slides that led straight to hell.
Fragments of Euclid is downright mind-bending, dropping you into a building filled with staircases and portals covered with black-and-white, dizzying patterns.
Many people escaped down the staircases, but the authorities grimly predicted that the death toll would surely rise as bodies were found and identified.
This maze of hallways, secret passageways, staircases and ghosts was once the home of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester.
Twin curved staircases lead down to the lower level, with three bedrooms and a hall bathroom on either side, and laminated wood floors throughout.
The point of the staircases and side ledges is to provide permanent access to ever-fluctuating water levels—and cool shelter in the hottest months.
"I have become the master of navigating the Pentagon," Goldstein said, a bit proudly, leading me up and down staircases and through diorama-lined corridors.
Various "Ikea hacks" sites offer ideas and how-to's for building cat staircases, dog beds, and even guinea pig paddocks using the store's conventional products.
The theater, never before open to the public, features an expansive glass-enclosed lobby, with two massive white stone staircases leading down to the auditorium.
A small stage door down a narrow side street opens into the cavernous space, split across two floors, connected with a spiraling art deco staircases.
It was, and remains, one of the most iconic settings in English football, with its clusters of wooden seats, wooden staircases and stylish Edwardian facade.
The country is notorious for poor airport facilities, and passengers often endure hourslong waits because baggage carousels or staircases needed to disembark are tied up.
Today, the power of the office is diminished, but the trappings remain: high ceilings, broad staircases, a grandfather clock that rings on the quarter-hour.
The rats are still out there in the hundreds of thousands, dragging entire pizza slices down staircases, burrowing into snowdrifts, crawling on sleeping subway passengers.
Instead, models danced across the Barclays Center stage, which was transformed for the show to include staircases, a pool, and a structure with 20 windows.
"What we kept hearing is that people weren't connecting," said Colin Koop, a Skidmore design partner, who suggested open staircases between floors to encourage interaction.
On the second level, accessible by two winding stone staircases, is a formal great hall with beamed ceilings, oak paneling and a large stone fireplace.
MÔTIERS, Switzerland — Forty granite steps and two wooden staircases connect the basement to the attic of the watchmaker Kari Voutilainen's five-floor chateau-in-miniature.
Aurore Dexmier: It's cool because it's in an old building of Paris with kind of modern art stuff, like two staircases and these big windows.
Each floor has a large, airy kitchen, and there are two staircases connecting the four floors and the home's nearly 12,000 square feet of space.
Curving staircases flanked a contemporary chandelier and the space had a luxe, nautical feel with a navy stair runner and lots of painted white wood.
But there is a broader market for such relatively commonplace items as antique tile floors, wood paneling, mantelpieces and chimneys, and sometimes even for staircases.
The store was labyrinth, with narrow staircases in the backs of small rooms, and chambers and antechambers that opened up into expansive arenas of clothing.
"This is just the beginning," Thanathorn told protesters who spilled in afternoon sunshine across walkways and staircases between a Bangkok shopping mall and art gallery.
It's super architectural, with floating staircases, massive closets, a Picasso-style tub, a detached guest house, a cool pool and, of course, the Pacific Ocean.
We recreationally climb mountains and rock faces and have an entire sport that consists of running around cities and jumping off of staircases and such.
Their creative work makes it easy to get lost in an endless scroll of spiral staircases, silly animals, stunning aerial shots, sun-kissed portraits and more.
As you zoom in on the map, you'll see additional location points for things like restrooms, baggage claim areas, staircases, dining and shopping, and boarding gates.
There are simple wooden steps installed here and there, but no concrete staircases, iron railings or trails festooned with coloured pennants and loudspeakers playing soppy music.
The peeling paint, grand staircases, and dormant kitchens offer a haunting setting for Andrew Harrison's "A Tree for Andrew Williams," where a bicycle transports a tree.
It's deserted enough that Davidson, the more analog-minded half of the pair, can do her jogging through the hallways and staircases without seeing another soul.
The new building envisions spiral staircases and 'bridges' that transverse the building but those are part of a modern building design and not extravagances, Watt wrote.
Or buildings with glass staircases that might look cool, but turn out to be very inconvenient and also nerve-wracking for women wearing skirts or dresses.
I mastered the staircases that connect old and new wings and the tangles of corridors that extend through the four-block-long, two-block-deep building.
The eight-bedroom, 14-bath home sits on 5 acres of private property and includes a home theater and a gym, along with several spiral staircases.
Back at Trent Court, people she knows talk of water up to the fourth or fifth step in the staircases leading up from the first floor.
M. C. Escher was an artist who used math and graphics to create visual conundrums, staircases that rose while falling, for example, and other impossible widgets.
You take the one to the left, but once you reach the top, you're faced with another choice between staircases leading to the left and right.
"This is all trial by fury," said Zausner, who plans to make immediate adjustments, like designating sections of the staircases for separate up-and-down travel.
A brush head, mini motorized tool, and extension nozzle can be swapped out for hard-to-reach areas like corners, couch cushions, pet beds, and staircases.
And so the buildings of that era were designed with multiple entrances and staircases to ensure that lectures could continue even if several entrances were blockaded.
Yet courtesy of the 20-year nostalgia cycle, the students who will be dragging their luggage up dorm staircases next week will look almost the same.
At the 2019 Sand Sculptures Festival in Binz, Germany, a magnificent, 57.94-foot-high sandcastle — with staircases and turrets — broke the record for the world's tallest.
From woodcut prints to wooden staircases, Esherick's works developed in line with craft traditions, incorporating elements of Pennsylvania Dutch design into his German Expressionist-influenced style.
These are accessible through a double helix staircases, and are interspersed with footbridges and viewing stations that will offer a view from 100 feet above ground.
Erlich's work intrudes into public space with illusions created from ordinary things like staircases, elevators, and swimming pools, which then transcend their entertaining aspect with deeper inferences.
It's also noticeably more vertical: instead of moving through city streets, you're constantly shifting up and down the rooftops of buildings, navigating twisting staircases and perilous drops.
The Bronx staircases are so formidable that when Hurvitz, the location scout, found the one that would ultimately show up in "Joker," he only walked halfway down.
One of the most inventive guitarists and composers working right now, Halvorson makes music that suggests running up and down a battery of staircases, sometimes with scissors.
After I exit my craft I find myself surrounded by a vast, virtually empty space with mirrored walls and staircases and hallways that seem to lead nowhere.
The interiors are equally unconventional and Rube Goldberg-esque, with staircases seemingly sprouting from nowhere to connect the various wings, which intersect at a single, soaring atrium.
There are eight fireplaces, two staircases and a landscaped backyard with twin outdoor pagodas, one furnished as a living room and the other as a dining room.
Officials also frequently have to build new staircases, move utilities like gas and water lines and pay for real estate at the street level for the elevator.
Such alarm systems are common, and they are not audible in the entire building to prevent people from evacuating all at once and clogging staircases for firefighters.
Scene changes are cleverly managed through the use of mobile scaffolding that serves as staircases, windows, balconies, train compartments ("Shuffle off to Buffalo"), dressing rooms and more.
According to Politico, which reported on the Trump-Macron tour of Washington's home, Trump took special note of the narrow staircases, the small rooms and uneven floors.
Wariness is warranted here, where staircases no longer have treads, banisters hang at crazy angles and gaping elevator shafts no longer contain elevators, at least in one piece.
Metal staircases allow players look down on a holographic spinning globe, a strategic map of the earth lines the dominant wall, and another screen crawls with ominous statistics.
Urban scenes break the rule of nature: they tend to feature regular, repetitive patterns, due to the common use of design features such as windows, staircases and railings.
The US also has minimum requirements for building codes as far as ways people can get out in an emergency, including mandating access to at least two staircases.
And upon arrival in Havana, tourists sometimes face five-hour delays, because the airport lacks the mobile staircases needed to disembark and the conveyor belts to process luggage.
Back aboveground, you'll find a massive vestibule of stone staircases and observation balconies, a gold leaf-coated salon reminiscent of Versailles, and an equally opulent 1,900 seat theater.
With that in mind, the MTA spent months adding two new staircases and ADA-compliant elevators to help usher the additional expected riders in a less disorderly fashion.
Three broad staircases (and two elevators) lead to a grid of wide aisles lined with food stands and larger restaurant areas, punctuated with clusters of tables and benches.
There were several places like this around the market, like staircases that looked like they led to upper areas and small alleys branching off of the main paths.
Modern cutting and extraction techniques have produced a surreal landscape similar to some Cubism paintings, a dizzying array of upside down staircases and sugar-cube structures looking heavenward.
While Nancy mostly dealt with spooky staircases and stolen family jewels, Hillary has more dire cases to solve like systemic sexism in politics and winning a national election.
The pyramids were an incredible sight from the sky and equally captivating from the ground when we climbed up their steep staircases to the top following our ride.
Webster Hall, housed in an 543 building, part of which has been declared a landmark, is a rabbit warren of staircases and anterooms that surround a grand ballroom.
As delegates headed into the convention, Sanders allies in the staircases passed notes and discussed how to launch a "Bernie beats Trump!" chant when Clinton sealed the nomination.
Other places also put greater weight on the second aspect of fire-safety engineering: escape, usually by insisting that tall buildings have at least two staircases, placed far apart.
Several years ago, Shane O'Neill was just a young skate rat on the streets of Melbourne, Australia, hopping fences and jumping down staircases in shopping centers and office buildings.
The dancers practically sock you in the face with their high kicking, hip swinging and slides, often on elevated platforms or suspended staircases without any visible form of support.
Year-round, devotees visit to bathe or drink the waters, or to cremate their dead on the ghats, the series of broad stone staircases that line the southern bank.
According to Reuters, police and disaster response teams in Imphal, which has a population of about 270,000, reported that parts of walls, staircases and roofs on buildings had collapsed.
In order to climb, you need to slide the blocks around to form staircases, utilize all-too-rare power ups, and tactically block your opponent's own attempts to climb.
Fujimoto reduced the idea of the home to a series of glass-enclosed cubes on multiple levels, connected by separate staircases, reconfiguring our idea of how rooms should function.
The soft sandstone of the staircases crumbles underfoot, so that the very act of climbing them is at least in part a guilty pleasure — though no longer very dangerous.
Some of the buildings have — had — facades with elaborate stone corbels, internal marble staircases and palazzo-style apartments of room after room with four-meter-high stucco-detailed ceilings.
Twin staircases flank the entry hall, leading up to four bedrooms, each with an en suite bathroom and walk-in closet, as well as access to a central balcony.
But less than a mile into the race, climbing staircases so long that the top cannot be seen from the bottom, I was aware that dozens were passing me.
If you pay for an elevator ride to the top of the Nativity or Passion towers, the walk down involves long, narrow spiral staircases that are an unexpected thrill.
Dry floodproofing means keeping the water out altogether, using things like flood barriers in doorways and staircases, and using aquarium glass that can hold back a wave of H2O.
Upon opening the glass door, two staircases immediately come into view: the staircase that leads down to the cellar and the staircase that leads up to the reading room.
There aren't many staircases that will make you want to sit down and pick up a book, but London managed to turn a walkway into the coziest of reading nooks.
Instead of widely separated staircases, frequent cross-passageways allow passengers to quickly escape fire or smoke into either a dedicated safety tunnel or the tunnel traveling in the other direction.
Above us, polished copper-colored cladding, on the undersides of staircases and landings, offered distorted reflections of people and machines out of our direct view, as in a Hyatt atrium.
Others acquired these grand residences (or their fireplaces, staircases and opulently paneled rooms) without benefit of marriage, either buying them outright or having them dismantled and shipped to our shores.
There have been so dang many of them, and the format is so limiting — you can slam doors, make staircases creak, have the kitchen knives come alive — and then what?
From the outside it looks like a miniature Versailles and features a giant entryway with a chandelier and twin staircases that look like they'd be perfect for executing dramatic entrances.
The set is a deceptively simple trio of unfinished concrete buildings with labyrinthine colonnades and staircases out of Piranesi, but also the disorienting forced perspective of Borromini and de Chirico.
The thrusting terraces have views of Roosevelt Island and the Queensboro Bridge, Just as dramatic are the plunging views inside, from the apartment's treacherous catwalks and banister-free floating staircases.
The operator of Terminal 1 eventually called the Port Authority for help unloading the planes with portable staircases, but by then some parts of the airport were in virtual gridlock.
Long ago, the Capri municipality outlawed all motor vehicles and bicycles; to get around, a network of footpaths and staircases connect everything, with electric carts allowed for carrying goods only.
In 2010 the City of New York released a report titled "Active Design Guidelines" that includes recommendations for designing staircases that are prominently located — and attractive — to encourage everyday use.
The Duma retained the trappings of legislative power — marble staircases, ornate chandeliers, thick red carpets — but it had become an aquarium, brightly colored fish swimming in circles but getting nowhere.
Largely rejecting the conventional layout of closed-off cubes, the building hosts a string of galleries that feature high-vaulted ceilings, acute angles, and odd segues facilitated by little interior staircases.
She filled her house with candy cane trees, white reindeer, garland that lines the various staircases, a special-ordered large red bear, and giant nutcrackers that stand out front her home.
The interface was simple enough that she actually did most of the item placement herself, grabbing blocks with the stylus and dragging them around the level to create ledges and staircases.
"One of Donald Trump's claims to presidential competence is his business and financial success, and so he should want voters to see the proof beyond the gilded staircases," the Journal noted.
Its decision to bog itself down in the hoariest soap clichés — pregnant women getting pushed down staircases, long-lost family members materializing out of the ether — was a self-inflicted wound.
It's also a celebration of the full absurdity of the set: feather bouquets in giant vases and staircases so choked with flowers a Disney princess would say it's a bit much.
No one was more excited than I when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced his stair-climbing initiative in 2013 to make New Yorkers healthier by creating visible, attractive and accessible staircases.
The markets, the children in the streets, the bustle of day-to-day living is replaced with rubble: apocalyptic wastelands of gutted buildings with collapsed roofs, exposed rebar and twisted staircases.
When VICE profiled Alan Minor, a transit activist, he reiterated the need for the MTA to reopen a number of defunct staircases at stations along the J, M, and Z lines.
As the officers reached the complex, they discovered that the building resembled more of a fortress of brick and cement, complete with gigantic staircases connected to the building by a drawbridge.
Now the local government is playing catch-up, evacuating more than 82.53,000 residents from crumbling apartments as others walk up quaking staircases and jolt awake at night at the slightest vibration.
Two staircases, in front and back, lead to the second floor, where there is a library in the tower with custom wallpaper and a ceiling mural painted by a local artist.
The spiral staircases in the Arc de Triomphe seem to impart the double-helix misery of France's martial DNA in their well-worn spiral steps, vertigo-inducing when I look down.
For a year or so I've used a walking cane when I leave the house and I consider staircases and most chairs, which I can't easily get up from, my nemeses.
Silhouetted cutouts of large, black trees with creepy bare branches were placed on the columns of the White House South Portico, lit a ghoulish orange; dozens of pumpkins lined the curved staircases.
It was conceived in the 1960s, when engines were smaller and passengers generally embarked and disembarked using staircases wheeled in for the purpose rather than airbridges connected directly to a terminal building.
It would eventually amass 160 rooms in total, staircases that led to nowhere, and 2,000 doors (one opened up to a 15-foot drop, while others simply opened to reveal a wall).
But its topography is hills and leafy slopes; its streets ascend into secret staircases; and at its core, say residents, the neighborhood is a flora-filled L.A. treasure hiding in plain sight.
When I visited with Heatherwick, we stood for a moment in what could be thought of as the Vessel's lobby, from which four staircases lead up to the first set of landings.
There are times when the environment seems to be playing tricks on you, sending you "down the rabbit hole" (as one chapter is called) through heady repetition; looping staircases, corridors, and ventspaces.
For these works, the artists isolated the staircases from the mother-child bunk beds and then inserted still images of the girl from the video in light boxes installed between each step.
The ornate lobby, with its marble columns and twisting staircases, leads to a lush, domed auditorium with seating for about 650 and decorated with a colorful timeline fresco detailing the country's history.
After an extensive refurbishment, the One Palácio da Anunciada opened in February, cascading theatrically up the hill behind the street, with sumptuous rooms, staircases and courtyards appearing where you least expect them.
In Bayport, N.Y., a four-bedroom, three-bath, 2,600-square-foot house built in 1877, with dual staircases, a brick gas fireplace, hardwood floors throughout and a wraparound porch, on 1.03 acres.
The government said it was still considering tougher rules about fire sprinklers and evacuation staircases, and that it had focused on buildings above six stories because firefighting becomes riskier at those heights.
His Whitney Museum of American Art has packed in visitors since the spring of 2015, spellbound as much by its balconies and switchback staircases as by its light-filled, column-free galleries.
The guide warned people about the dangers of taking selfies in front of railway tracks, near large animals such as lions, while holding guns or diving, and on roofs, staircases or boats.
Perched on a hillside near the main train station, Ahyeon-dong is a warren of steep, narrow streets, many of which end in long staircases that residents climb to reach their homes.
You can see the original facade of the building (a granite arch) near the top of the museum's Grand Staircase and two original staircases near the European Paintings and Medieval Art galleries.
The spiral staircases and rows of rivets made me feel as if I had descended into Captain Nemo's submarine in Jules Verne's classic science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Dating back to 1934, Swifts reports state that she has architects are working to restore the home inside and out, replicating the flooring, a sweeping entryway with double staircases, and the pool's cabana.
With season 3, Channel Zero got more ambitious with its take on Search and Rescue Woods, a tale about unexplained disappearances that all seemed tied to staircases that magically appear in the woods.
One of a hotel staircases in Geneva, for instance, appears as a negative paired with a positive photograph, but both pictures are positive, merely cleverly matched so their tones play with your eyes.
The targets are ISIS fighters, but with each blast comes the reality that in the homes and streets hit -- whether by airstrikes, artillery, or ISIS bombs -- are civilians cowering under staircases, in basements.
While fire shutters are often required around structures like spiral staircases, to enclose then to prevent the spread of fire, Sugawara said he had heard that they were not needed in this case.
It was during this time that skateboarding began to truly test its boundaries, and countless skaters made a name for themselves based on their willingness to jump down ever-larger staircases and handrails.
In his lavish interiors, Le Brun made tangible in furniture and decoration larger architectural ideas: foliage depicted in rugs and gilded sconces all scroll with the same baroque energy as the marble staircases.
On the upper level, which is reached by two separate staircases, there is a spacious master suite and a media room with a powder room that could be converted into another master bedroom.
Housed on a lush 400-acre setting with Mediterranean tile work, the Fairmont Grand Del Mar feels pristine with arched windows, curved staircases, and a rose-tinted facade that resembles a European palace.
Works in Progress When you open the door to 35 West 14th Street, you're presented with one of the more challenging staircases in New York City — three stories in one long, steep shot.
Architects are told to enable staff to mix on floors and between them to foster creative thinking; staircases are now places to meet, not just something you walk down in a fire drill.
Throughout all of it, hundreds of reporters have crammed into narrow hallways, or by the trams underneath the Capitol, or at the foot of staircases, staking out members of Congress on the move.
I recruited my mom, as handy as Bob Vila with a drill and a glue gun, to help me build the wooden frame, assemble the staircases, wire the dewdrop chandeliers and faux candelabra.
A thousand years later, the Romans built a series of staircases throughout the Adonis that connected it to their temples and palaces in the Bekaa Valley; portions of the route still can be traversed.
In the last few years, Minor has found himself at the forefront of an issue rarely recognized, yet all too routine to riders: the closed staircases and entrances of New York's 472 subway stations.
Some of the oldest landscaped gardens on the planet are nestled among the site's intricate network of staircases and reservoirs, which extend from the mouth of an imposing lion made from brick and plaster.
One afternoon I walked into a part of the Accademia that most people never see, down a labyrinth of staircases and hallways, to a small office tucked into the very back of the building.
Simultaneously, Liang and his partner, Shaun Landau, were conducting what's known as a "vertical patrol"—itself a controversial practice where police monitor crime by sweeping the building's roof and staircases from top to bottom.
A "drunken'" sailor choir lined the rickety metal staircases of the venue, belting out songs as diners dipped into local fish dishes passed down long wooden banqueting tables via giant pulleys suspended in midair.
In 1995, she moved into her current location, a four-floor former granary on the Waal River that she had restored, with brick walls, concrete floors and metal staircases befitting a big-city gallery.
Throughout the 2746-minute tour, Ms. Qi led the group through a maze of empty reactor halls, exhibition rooms and dim staircases, stopping frequently to lecture so the elderly visitors could catch their breath.
I marvel at the ease with which some people run staircases, as though they're from outer space, but whenever I spot another tri-paw dog's movement, a curtain of serene familiarity washes over me.
If they were always cicadas, their summer noise would remind me of the violet flowers of the jacaranda trees along the Paraná, or of the white stone mansions with their staircases and their willows.
For its founders and residents, the Hype House is the ideal location for creating TikTok content with its huge bathroom, big mirrors and extravagant staircases, which all allow for highly-curated and stylized content.
Whether it's the narrow cobblestone streets of Boston's Beacon Hill, the secret staircases of Los Angeles or the Lake Champlain waterfront park in Burlington, Vt., seeing the best sights often requires being on foot.
Lanthimos, his camera gliding through gilded corridors and down stone staircases — in exquisitely patterned light and shadow, with weird lenses and startling angles — choreographs an elaborate pageant of decorum and violence, claustrophobia and release.
After I said yes and purchased my half-price ticket, I made my way up to the exhibit along with the Italians, in what felt like a private tour of the museum's inner staircases.
Gluckman Tang has preserved the "bones" of the building — sturdy beige brick walls and sleek industrial staircases — and opened up rear-facing walls with windows that provide light and spectacular views of the neighborhood.
Well, our pal Frank Ocean certainly isn't out here with idle hands fretting about it when he could be building staircases, as he does in Blond(e)'s immediate precursor, the visual album Endless.
Throughout all of it, hundreds of reporters have crammed into narrow hallways, or by the trams underneath the Capitol building, or at the foot of staircases, staking out members of Congress on the move.
It features a lengthy sequence where Cooper — still in the guise of Dougie Jones — draws ladders and staircases and swirling black vortexes all over the insurance case files he's been tasked with completing at home.
Starting in his student years, the exhibits include furniture, architectural plans and models, textiles, drawings, those forlorn paintings of unbuilt houses, and three staircases (one of his obsessions) which until now had never been built.
As early as 1945, she began a series of paintings she called "Femme maison"— woman house — in which the heads or torsos of women are depicted as buildings, with openings of windows, doors and staircases.
The spare space, lined with distressed oak floors, and featuring steel staircases and a black soapstone kitchen, gets a dose of warmth from a huge, semicircular sofa in bright blue velvet in the living room.
The stairways leading up from the platform to the mezzanine will be widened, she added, and two staircases will be added; once the shutdown ends, in July of 2020, an elevator will be installed there.
But I remember showering rockets down spiral staircases in Unreal Tournament, knowing that my secondary fire mode would send them tumbling off steps and walls like live grenades, killing whoever was coming up behind me.
Whether the art takes the form of a 583-story nest of staircases or an oversized polka-dotted pumpkin, the aim is the same: to endow brand-new real estate with an alluring aesthetic experience.
Expecting 12 percent of stranded L train commuters to come this way, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) structurally plans to widen staircases down to the G train, and enlarge control areas by adding two stairwells.
The late king's nine-spired crematorium, built to honor the ninth king of the Chakri Dynasty, features intricate carvings and staircases with sculptures of nagas - a half-human, half- cobra beings - among other mythical creatures.
Like Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant and Charlie Chaplin before her, Ms. Littrell descended a series of grand staircases to behold the bewitching pool, set off by marble colonnades framing mountains, ocean and sky.
This is Smokey Joe's Cafe, as channeled by the Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt — a place of warm nostalgia and, with three staircases spiraling down from the steel-beam second level, gritty elegance.
"This is all trial by fury," said Zausner, the chief operating officer of the National Tennis Center, who plans to make immediate adjustments, like designating sections of the staircases for separate up-and-down travel.
Ms. Raman's photographs show spaces that are paradoxically majestic and intimate: Once luxurious interiors replete with towering screens, grand staircases and opulent lobbies were designed to make going to the movies both personal and fleeting.
We found ourselves in Kotor, along with thousands of passengers from a Celebrity Cruises ship snapping pictures of the stray (but evidently well-fed) cats that stalk the cobblestone plazas and nap on stone staircases.
Normally, he and an entourage of staff members, reporters, handlers and photographers would have boarded the ship, and puffed up a few of those narrow staircases to see the bridge and tour an operating room.
Normally, he and an entourage of staff members, reporters, handlers and photographers would have boarded the ship, and puffed up a few of those narrow staircases to see the bridge and tour an operating room.
After the four main performers, all dressed in green, had walked up and down the staircases, posing like pedestrians and tourists, one was handed a microphone to recite a potted history of the Winter Garden.
Windows were blocked with metal grills, flammable objects covered staircases and one of the building's two exits was locked when the fire broke out, according to Atul Garg, the chief fire officer in New Delhi.
Everywhere I went, I found the makeshift staircases and bridges I had made with the GLOO Cannon, the open hatches and unlocked security doors left by earlier passages, the hacked security turrets ready to be reactivated.
Other works in the exhibition are rich in metaphoric possibilities — among them is "Stair Share" (2019), two staircases composed of three steps each, oriented in opposite directions; a plank connects the stairs across the second step.
Next, Colton and Cassie spend the day walking around the town and getting to know all the best local spots — which include a lot of back alleys and outdoor staircases that are perfect for making out.
Ross looked down on a model of the plaza, which featured a miniature version of the structure commissioned from Heatherwick: a copper-colored, urn-shaped lattice of a hundred and fifty-four staircases and eighty landings.
You can often find Meraki creating wrought-iron fences and spiral staircases at a local makerspace studio called The WorcShop, but this weekend, he helped organize and stage one of the Sanders events in the city.
This brick-faced 2000 house has a two-story entry foyer, three fireplaces, two staircases, a finished basement, a wraparound deck with an outdoor kitchen and hot tub, and a pair of two-car attached garages.
We are served by a magnificent sandstone courthouse built in 6900 in the Romanesque Revival style, with a rotunda that rises from ground level through the fourth floor, arched windows, wide staircases and a clock tower.
Just look at the women that charge by you on any given city block, who strenuously hoist strollers up subway staircases, and who give you a piece of their mind whether you like it or not.
After the fire, the London Fire Brigade issued an "enforcement notice" asking the management organization to improve safety in the escape staircases and provide self-closing devices to all the units' front doors, according to the Guardian.
Visitors willing to shell out $20 dollars for the hour-long mansion tour see staircases leading nowhere, trap doors, Shakespeare-themed stained glass, a seance room, and many more features you'd never see in a typical mansion.
According to realtors, Khan Market is possibly the most expensive retail location in India per square foot despite its uneven paving stones, mass of overhead cables, and narrow staircases and entrances that would terrify any fire consultant.
The all-but-unspoken mandate applies unequivocally to moving staircases across New York, save for the nightmarishly narrow (just take the stairs) — and for a diminutive contrarian I have discovered in the course of my new commute.
U.S.T.A. officials were ill prepared for the chaos when fans leaving Halep's match were trying to descend one of two sets of staircases at the same time as spectators for Murray's match were trying to ascend them.
I spent the month of May in Delray Beach, in an antebellum-style mansion with Spanish moss hanging from the trees in the front yard, spiral staircases indoors, and large white vitrified tiles in the dining room.
They spend a fair amount of the set tag-teaming, showing up for guest verses on each other's tracks before disappearing down the hidden staircases at the edges of the stage and sliding into their next outfit changes.
The 3,300-square-meter, or 35,500-square-foot, palace is in the heart of Palma's old town, and, though in need of extensive renovation, it retains elegant stone archways, beamed and vaulted ceilings and original doors and staircases.
Read more: Take a look inside the famously creepy Winchester House, which has 160 rooms, staircases that lead to nowhere, and doors that open into wallsSome of these palaces have been restored and even serve as wedding venues.
We sit down at his dining room table amid a wild cornucopia of stuff, including a lamp with a hot pink feathered shade and black cats lounging on chairs and hanging, Cirque du Soleil-style, from carpeted staircases.
To preserve the Russian milieu and intimate feel, the Imperial's marble lobby was reconfigured to resemble a Cold War bunker, and two staircases were built so performers could bound up and down, instruments in hand, into the mezzanine.
This is not the Singapore of authoritarian leadership or unrestrained capitalism, but rather one in which a rainbow is painted across an apartment building, colored staircases spiral up to the sky and bored cats doze in the daylight.
In their current offices, designed by the architecture firm ENV, floors are connected with wide staircases and interior walls are glass so that everyone can share the sunlight streaming in the windows — and can be seen by visitors.
Located in an alley at the heart of Taipei with rainbow flags leading up to the staircases, the owner of a decades-old bathhouse for men said his business is now often packed and receives many customers from overseas.
I'm no expert — this is only the second yacht I have ever stepped foot on — but to me, it was wildly over-the-top, with its infinity pool, classic French décor, gold staircases, and formal dining rooms and salons.
The 110-room mansion is testament to power and wealth, with its winding marble staircases and large Renaissance-style fireplaces built for Florence Adele Vanderbilt and her husband, Hamilton McKown Twombly, as a country estate in the late 1800s.
Anyone can, as A.B. did, crawl through the passageways surrounding the towering niches in the cliff, through winding staircases tunneled into the sandstone and up steps with risers double the height of modern ones, as if built for giants.
Next, their journey took them down ornately arched iron staircases scattered with palm trees to a vast concrete concourse, where they were directed by station porters in navy caps to the life-size platforms that ran alongside railroad tracks.
But over a century and a half after the modern elevator was invented, many developers, architects and designers are bringing staircases to the fore, to add drama, evoke a bygone era, and activate common areas — or activate residents themselves.
I was surrounded by modern decor, trendy velvet, and shiny accents, but that air of classic New York City remained with exposed marble staircases and black lacquered railings that were reminiscent of a pre-war New York apartment building.
Or they do not notice it as they trudge toward the corner of Seventh Avenue South and Christopher Street — itself a triangle, Olympic-size by comparison and bracketed by sidewalks and two subway staircases less than 30 feet apart.
Every other Saturday she drove a rotating duo of student athletes around town, and supervised as they hauled heavy objects out of the basements and attics of the rich and up narrow staircases into the third-floor walkups of the poor.
Many of the "Cells" are scaled to the size of the rooms in the Chelsea house, and they contain staircases, doors and closets, as well as some of her possessions, including articles of clothing and empty bottles of Shalimar perfume.
From the peeling wallpaper and crumbling staircases, to the creeping invasion of plants and dust, being inside the decaying walls of a deserted space can feel like glimpsing a window between the chaos of life and the stillness of death.
Stories of the streams of musicians, journalists, and artists like Ginger Baker and George Harrison flocking up its narrow staircases fossilized the year he spent there from '68–'69 in folklore, but the place was already part of music consciousness.
Mime artists lounge on the carpeted staircases, hundreds of tables littered with laptops stretch throughout various halls, and one man lies fully dressed and face down in a squatter's mattress, burnt out from the previous night of ferociously hitting keyboards.
Jake Rosenthal is considering making postcard-size maps of Elsewhere, a labyrinthine new two-floor venue on the border of Williamsburg and Bushwick; it takes a few rounds of circling before the space reveals all its sections, pathways, and staircases.
In slicing through the bundle's interior tubes — and then capping them in glass — the designer creates spectacular, Piranesian volumes, some filled with circular staircases, others with pistonlike elevators, and a central lobby wide open and streaming with daylight from above.
I wore mine home from work the same day they arrived — a risky move since my commute home involves lots of walking and staircases — and my feet came away not only blister-free but also feeling ultra-cushioned and supported.
Travelers posted photos on social media of fellow passengers sitting on the airport floor, dark departure halls, and staircases that were brought up to planes to disembark passengers after the electricity outage prevented the use of gates and jet bridges.
Mr. Michele chose to make that Medici palace his own, paving its cloistered staircases with deep magenta carpets and serving fizzing pink cocktails and prosecco amid palm fronds and silk parasols on its roof terrace before models took to the runway.
The earliest ones were narrow, precipitous, almost improvised spaces, tucked into the classical campaniles and Gothic belfries that topped those pioneering buildings; the decks were reached through tiny penthouse elevators and steep staircases, in a staged ascent not unlike mountaineering.
The headquarters of the Society, a Beaux-Arts town house across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, looks like something the Crawleys might have lived in if they'd been turn-of-the-century New Yorkers: marble entryway, grand staircases, artifacts galore.
They are portrayed by a cast of 24 humans and several winsome puppets, who all tirelessly dash up and down the four steep staircases that dominate Soutra Gilmour's otherwise minimalist set, while the revolving stage of the Olivier Theater turns.
You've probably seen a screenshot or video from Manifold Garden before; it's an indie game that's been kicking around for years under the guise of a playable M.C. Escher painting, with endlessly repeating geometry and intertwined staircases leading into the heavens.
Instead of mass transit, he now uses Access-A-Ride, the paratransit service that the city and Metropolitan Transportation Authority provide to about 144,000 people unable to use the subway system with its maze of staircases and scarce, unreliable elevators.
The house in Parasite, where the main action takes place, is also beautiful, but in a way that is chillingly familiar: It has a minimalist aesthetic composed of orbed lights, floating staircases, slate tiles, and acres of glass and polished wood.
It integrated lighting, vibrant colors, acoustical fabrics, chairs molded like tulip petals, sofas and desks with chrome legs, collegially oval meeting tables, and futuristic multilevel interiors, more architectural than decorative, with open-riser staircases that seemed to float in the air.
Paintings and fabric pieces hung from the forty-foot-high ceiling, delicate vitrines stood next to walls covered with unsettling images of women performing acts of rebellion or routine everyday life, while staircases swirled up on either side to unconventionally categorized subsections.
Architects at Tate Harmer used what they're calling a "ship in a bottle" approach to build a stairway inside, squeezing the staircases elements into the room piece by piece and assembling them into a freestanding structure that doesn't touch the walls at all.
Frames fill every inch of the walls and line the insides of mahogany display cases so the space resembles a cabinet of curiosity; there is so much material present that Hendeles built steel mezzanines and spiral staircases to create an additional floor.
So said Mr. Cabrera at the school's headquarters, a grand edifice with marble staircases, built in 1904 for a Spanish social club, commandeered for ballet in 2001, and recently named for Mr. Alonso, the man usually credited with developing Cuban ballet pedagogy.
If I put them in Ditmas Park, they can have lawns and big houses with staircases and driveways and garages, and I thought there could be people playing music in garages, which seems like the most romantic thing in the world to me.
Victor Madeiros, a tour guide who's been giving tours of the property for over a year, told Business Insider that the house has 2,000 doors, 52 skylights, 47 fireplaces, 40 staircases, 40 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, six kitchens, three elevators, and two basements.
In a notable sequence, the camera performs a huge S-turn, swirling around a plate of pastries, tracking Swinton down a staircase (staircases are the film's transitional spaces) and framing a doorway where she meets her lover—the camera in sensual pursuit.
U.S.T.A. officials also were ill-prepared for the chaos when a large number of fans were leaving one match by descending one of two sets of staircases at the same time as spectators were trying to ascend them for the next match.
Instead, the play's magic, in both the theatrical and the literal sense, comes from the way swirling capes, moving staircases, fast scene changes and miraculously quick switches of identity (and costume) keep the story and the imagery in a constant flow of motion.
Most of these buildings are red brick, but a whimsical alternative, at No. 2501, is the Italian-style Villa Charlotte Brontë, a co-op that has barrel-tile roofs, vine-draped walls and staircases that zigzag upward, as in an Escher drawing.
Several staircases and walkways lead to the house's stacked wood-and-glass modules, conforming to the geography of the site and providing space for gardens and natural water features — one of which, a 720-square-foot rectangular pool, is bio-filtered for swimming.
In particular, Mr. Roediger said that in exchange for being able to extend the 17th and 18th holes, the company would rehabilitate a long asphalt path that encircles the waterfront, along with two cascading stone staircases that run down to the water.
There will be a manhole, a bridge, a simulation room to fill with smoke, wide outdoor staircases, rappelling walls and a trench to simulate a subway tunnel or passageway — to train for emergencies similar to the one this week near Times Square.
From the first floor, the fire proceeded to rip through the Sheepshead Bay home, hurtling up two sets of staircases and trapping part of the family inside as others fled through a side door or jumped down from a second-floor landing.
It sounds like the dark loft parties I used to climb filthy staircases to while living in Brooklyn, to drink cold-ish beers pulled dripping from an ice bucket and dance so hard I'd feel a clench in my calves when walking for days afterwards.
A convocation of wizards is evoked through the simultaneous swirling of black capes; an otherworldly, xenophobic and unsettlingly topical-feeling Fascist brigade materializes and multiplies out of yawning darkness; and staircases, bookcases and suitcases assume varied and miraculous lives that propel both themes and story.
Even when the puzzles get harder, such as at one stage where you have to wander through old photographs and use everything from a stained glass window to a wagon wheel to rotate portals and staircases that layer over the images, it's never frustrating.
In Huntington Bay, N.Y., a renovated, five-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath 1906 house with four fireplaces, front and back staircases, a three-car detached garage, an in-ground pool and a separate two-bedroom one-bath cottage, on a one-acre lot.
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of independent pharmacists swarmed the House and Senate office buildings one recent afternoon, climbing the marble staircases as they rushed from one appointment to the next, pitching lawmakers on their plan to rein in the soaring drug prices that have enraged American consumers.
Broken staircases, improper food storage and inadequate smoke detectors — President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Beach was cited for maintenance violations which could have posed a threat to public health, safety and welfare, according to a recent inspection of the 1920s beachfront property.
Joyce, wearing a white mermaid gown with lace appliqué and Swarovski crystals by Pnina Tornai, and Devon, sporting a custom velvet suit from Martin Greenfield Clothier, descended from opposing grand staircases toward a mirrored altar with white flower adornments situated in the center of the room.
What architects take from Building 73 is not its ramshackle aesthetic — though some believe less polish provides more freedom — but the importance of mixing disciplines, of work performed out in the open, and of transition zones like hallways and staircases as sites for productive run-ins.
In a García Márquez book, a dead man's blood may run across multiple streets and up and down staircases, into a house — "hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs" — through a pantry and into the kitchen where the dead man's mother is cooking.
The overhaul was a two-year process overseen by Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, which sent a representative each week to ensure that the restoration of marble floors, glass ceilings, Renaissance frescoes, staircases and portals was carried out in a precise, historically correct manner.
CreditCreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times On the upper floors of the grand courthouse, above the Corinthian columns chiseled from granite and the lobby with sweeping marble staircases peeking out from scaffolding, the rows of shelves, barely shoulder wide, form a maze that never seems to end.
The property — with earth-toned rooms, tiled staircases and angled, Casa Barragán-like terraces — embraces a Mexican Modernist aesthetic, but the framed prints by Block Shop, the towering succulents and the pool deck, from which one can spot the Griffith Observatory, give it a distinctly Californian feel.
More than 30 passengers were sleeping on the bottom deck of the ship when the fire broke out; floor plans of the Conception show that there are two staircases leading up to the galley, one from the sleeping quarters and the second from the shower room.
All of its dark wooden staircases and gothic chandeliers make a visit feel more like a tour through a historic mansion than the reason I'm usually there once a year: The Photography Show, the annual gathering of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, also known as AIPAD.
With 55,000-square feet sprawled across 18 acres, 132 rooms, 19813 bathrooms, 6 levels, 412 doors, 28 fireplaces, 7 staircases, 3 elevators, 5 full-time chefs, several gardens, tennis and basketball courts, a movie theater, jogging track, and more, there's a plethora of places for secrets to hide.
Following a massive population boom after World War II, the 6.4-acre patch of land became a haven for gangs and drug lords, an almost lawless sliver of Earth where you could walk around the entire city, using improvised staircases to sky-high walkways, without ever touching the ground.
Koo's work is, for me, the most playfully mischievous work in the entire biennial, featuring a maze peopled with quaint objects such as large balls, mirrored walls, geometric concrete blocks, miniature tableaus, staircases that lead only to air, sand-covered "snow men," and a serene pool of water.
Their current abilities are pretty limited, but the researchers envision a time when a larger and more advanced version of this system could be used to deploy efficiently self-assembling bots that can create structures like bridges, ramps or even staircases for use in disaster response or rescue scenarios.
Jewelry ATHENS — Family lore has it that when the hospital discharged each of Ilias Lalaounis's four daughters after their births, the first place their father took them was not home but to his jewelry workshop, an intricate labyrinth of studios and staircases in the shadow of the Acropolis.
On our little rise above Balanced Rock, Mr. Smith and I had front-row seats to an ancient bedrock cataclysm: pinwheeling stone staircases, lager-tinted turrets and weird, fanged crags poised over petrified sand dunes, and farther off, the La Sal Mountains — loping green knuckles streaked with old snow.
Size: 7,006 square feet Price per square foot: $250 Indoors: The building has the rambling feeling of an old farmhouse, with high ceilings, hardwood floors, front and back staircases (plus one in the middle, originally used by the house staff) and multiple spaces in which one can squirrel away.
In the aftermath, a visit by the German-born curator Klaus Biesenbach, then the director of MoMA PS1, spotlighted the storm's devastating impact on Puerto Rico's artists and rallied support for the rebuilding of Sánchez's studio; she has since repaired windows, two staircases, the balcony and the roof.
But what the 26-story piggyback structure has in common with the jeweled eggs exchanged by the Russian imperial family is that its shell holds an unexpected world inside, a landscape in a box: Curving staircases cascade between and around a recital chamber and a 2,100-seat concert hall.
The conversation ranges from the practical, such as sleeping troubles ("It's as if I do a piece of work when I sleep") to the sentimental, such as what staircases mean to him ("Each step is a remembrance of what we can do and that we can go forward or backward").
There was a raggedness to the narrow passageways of its Old Town, the uneven stones along its steep staircases, that jolted me into a sense of intimacy; as I roamed around the climbing lanes, I could hear bells clanging and the sound of cups rattling, a spoon against a pan.
Our instructors, Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass, led us through the empty halls and staircases — now to Lionel Richie — while museum staffers looked on, some snapping photos, some grooving along and some (who were, apparently, not familiar with this new concept) warning us to turn off the disco beats.
There are two staircases, one leading to the old choir loft and two bedrooms (one of them a suite with a bathroom and dressing room) and the other to an office with a built-in teak desk on the second floor and a skylit master suite on the third floor.
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Supervising much of the work on the jump forms and cables are field engineers like Alessandra Rosso of the Bronx and John McCullough of Piermont, N.Y. Two or three times each day, they climb metal staircases to reach work areas in the towers that are 15 stories now and keep getting higher.
This handsome seven-room hotel, which opened in January in the lively Santo Spirito district, brims with evidence of previous occupants: from a Renaissance-era baker who lived above his mill and bakery to 16th-century nobility who climbed the staircases of pietra-serena, the durable Tuscan stone typical of fine Florentine palazzi.
In Middletown, N.J., a 6,300-square-foot, six-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath 1988 house, with a heated indoor pool and waterfall on the lower level, multiple French doors and oversized windows, two wood-burning fireplaces, curved staircases, a finished basement, an attached two-car garage, and an outdoor kitchen, on 0.86 acres.

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