The stench seeped out, filling hallways, stairways and homes. Mrs.
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Mules humped water up the long stairways to the houses.
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As seen on social media, some stairways got the rainbow treatment:
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The codes also require many additional safeguards, especially in new buildings or major renovations: automatic sprinkler systems, fire alarms, loudspeakers to provide emergency instructions, pressurized stairways designed to keep smoke out and multiple stairways or fire escapes.
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Edges are cut and beveled, sometimes for views, sometimes for interior stairways.
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They'll see each other in the elevator, they talk in the stairways.
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Street-level pedestrian crossings were built to offer alternatives to underpasses with lengthy stairways.
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Inside Apple Park, he said, are large, open stairways, with lots of open space.
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She routinely saw shaky banisters, poorly lit stairways and slippery bathtubs without grab bars.
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Odd design elements — like stairways that lead to nowhere — also make this house infamous.
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Old stairways dating to the 1890s climb the wild grass- and cacti-covered hills.
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After participants landed at Hangzhou's airport, red-carpeted stairways were rolled up to their aeroplanes.
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Walls seem to be melting, ceiling forms appear to be dripping down, stairways go nowhere.
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The Steadicam can move smoothly in any direction, up stairways, around corners, along gravel roads.
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The red cantilevered stairways look like the ventricles of a heart coursing with glitter blood.
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By midafternoon, protesting students lined the hallways and stairways of the so-called administration building.
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Recurring characters from The Cosby Show roamed the halls, gospel music and Beethoven filled the stairways.
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And it's not the Escher-esque stairways that guide you from one floor to the next.
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The halls and stairways are deliberately made narrow as a way of encouraging people to interact.
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They sometimes seemed too exciting for that: sweeping stairways, soaring glass, razor-sharp angles, scintillating slopes.
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So, with nowhere else to go, fans rushed down the six stairways to the exit gates.
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In the Roma house, two cast-iron outside stairways lead upwards, but offer no social ascent.
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As soon as you board a boat, familiarize yourself with the exits, the stairways, the signage.
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Many capitalize on the locale, such as a tour to discover the hidden stairways in San Francisco.
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Exiting passengers had gathered on the overpass and near the stairways, waiting for the rains to subside.
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Beyond its gallery walls, it is a place where time slips away and ghosts roam the stairways.
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Garbage lies uncollected, unlicensed venders jam the barrio's narrow streets and stairways, and crime gets ever worse.
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"It gets interesting when they get to the stairways and the walls end for the stairway," he said.
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At only a meter wide each, the stairways had metal railings at the bottom, which created a bottleneck.
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The men build stairways that lead nowhere, secret doors, and she demands a new finished bedroom every night.
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Install railings on stairways — and always use them — and grab bars around the shower or tub and toilet.
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"Revising building codes and updating existing stairways to comply with geometric dimensions are recommended for optimal safety," Smith said.
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According to the original design, Accra Sports Stadium was supposed to have eight stairways, but only six were built.
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Three additional bedroom suites are on the house's lower level, which is reached by either of two outdoor stairways.
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The building has undergone a major restoration, resulting in bright-white molding, refreshed fresco murals and shiny stone stairways.
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Soon, he said, the cold produced a different effect: The stairways iced over, and firefighters began slipping and falling.
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An affinity with the number 13: panes in the windows, steps on the stairways, petals on a stained-glass flower.
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Staff members and nurses had to carry some patients down stairways, fearing that the elevators had become unsafe, he said.
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The fields are agricultural feats of precision — rugged mountains blanketed with emerald stairways that, seemingly, ascend to the heavens above.
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A backup route is needed in case one of the stairways is inaccessible or being used by firefighters, he said.
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Designed by Thomas Heatherwick, the structure is made up of 154 interconnected stairways, nearly 2,500 individual steps, and 80 landings.
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Stairways were not a common location for falls, with only seven falls, or 2 percent of the total, occurring on stairs.
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They ship to your door, compacted as much as possible to fit up narrow stairways, sans showfloor negotiations or reseller markups.
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Now his workday often begins at a quarry, where he selects what he needs to build stairways, walls and backyard sanctuaries.
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Walls have been removed, so natural light floods the stairways and upstairs atrium, allowing visitors to look out onto the park.
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Upstairs, through labyrinthine hallways and winding stairways, there are dormitory-style rooms for 46 residents, all of them men under 25.
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From there, the elaborately decorated hallways and stairways in the building lead to the other 12, smaller meeting rooms in the building.
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From the front the facsimile of grandeur is complete, but the stairways smell like piss as he goes up to the top.
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Reached by a series of dimly lit spiral stairways, the space beneath this contemporary art museum had no clearly marked exits: I looked.
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An enclosed conveyor belt has been constructed along one of the stairways to deliver goods and remove garbage without convoys of hand trucks.
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Under the revised plan, developers of towers near subway stations would have to pay — upfront — for improvements like new entrances and wider stairways.
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Up close, the naughty bits come into focus with Bosch-like suggestions of mutant, fragmented creatures; sex and violence; and stairways and houses.
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He began by taking Thanksgiving baskets to the poor of New York, toiling up cabbage-reeking stairways with his liveried chauffeur by his side.
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AND BY THE WAY, SHORTLY BEFORE, THEY SHOWED OTHER HEADS OF STATE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES COMING DOWN ON THESE MAGNIFICENT STAIRWAYS WITH RED CARPET.
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We've seen this in countless YouTube videos of the company's robots stomping its way across countrysides, opening doors, and traversing up and down stairways.
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Wide aerial shots of the temporary seats, in particular, made them look like steep stairways ascending to outer space, comically distant from the field.
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The piazza marks the start of a modern version of the Spanish Steps in Rome: Terraced stairways flow up and through the upper floors.
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It is full of passages and stairways made for snooping, with the vagaries of modern design making for many places to hide behind or under.
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Within that enclosure, and sheltered from any impact, are emergency stairways, elevator shafts and the vertical channels through which electrical, communication and plumbing lines run.
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Hidden stairways and garages along Hyperion Ave in Silver Lake where orgies would converge after the neighborhood gay bar, Le Barcito, closed for the night.
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Ms. Smith has turned La MaMa's cavernous Ellen Stewart Theater into a pressure cooker of a living room, making smart use of stairways and balconies.
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It ascended to the semi-abstracted superstructure in weathered and stained cast-concrete, curved floors, stairways, and interior platforms that spiraled out from a central axis.
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The most dangerous spots for falls are not rooftops or cliffs, but the low-level, interior settings of everyday life: shower stalls, supermarket aisles and stairways.
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In the suit, she ended up having to "run for her life" down dark stairways, engulfed in smoke ... and feared she would die in the inferno.
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Kotha 23 The hardware shops along the street close at night, but dark stairways fill with men queuing up to enter one of the many brothels.
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The photograph shows two wide stairways — an odd remnant of the time when society was so divided that there were separate stairs for blacks and whites.
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Once we reached Penn Station, the escalator leading from the platform was broken, creating a logjam at the narrow stairways as passengers struggled with heavy luggage.
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Biggers's sculpture is the sole occupant a room to the side of but open to the main arena, a carpeted hallway surrounded by windows that features some stairways.
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And finally, the reported capacity improvements to subway stations deemed crucial—which include expanded or new stairways, and corridors—have either been completed or are underway, officials said.
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The stairways at the 96th Street station on the B and C lines were packed with commuters seeking an alternate path to parts of the Upper West Side.
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Ottawa, where I live, doesn't even try to clear many outdoor stairways with as few as a half dozen steps and simply chains them off for the winter.
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The sound comes from every room in the house, with classical musicians playing in hallways and stairways, begging you to follow the music as you explore the space.
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Teresa Muniz (MUHN&apos-is) says Ostrem never returned her greetings and once or twice swore at people for sitting in the stairways or leaving laundry in communal machines.
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Adequate lighting, minimizing clutter and small area rugs, and ensuring that you have adequate safety apparatus like bars and rails in place (especially in bathrooms and stairways) is essential.
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Vessel is a honeycomb-like building comprised of 154 stairways, created by designer Thomas Heatherwick and opened to the public in New York City's Hudson Yards in March 2019.
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As he grew older and the addiction gripped him, he pictured intoxication as a Piranesi prison: a place of wonderful twisting passages, stairways and towers impossible to escape from.
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Activists from the Anti-Stairs Club organized a demonstration of disabled and non-disabled individuals who saw the honeycomb structure of 154 stairways as flouting the rules of ADA compliance.
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A few havelis have been preserved as small museums, where for a few rupees one can freely wander around the rooms and explore the labyrinth of courtyards, stairways, and balconies.
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Developers were also permitted to claim certain building spaces like stairways, elevators, fire escapes, and fire refuge areas—typically small spaces every few floors—as exempt from the square-footage calculations.
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There was no question about installing enough emergency generators to power the eight passenger elevators and two freight elevators, the water pumps and lighting in common areas like hallways and stairways.
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The route sweeps up hills, through working class and wealthy neighborhoods, connecting new trails, community garden corridors, state and local parks, stairways, hidden pathways along chain-link fences and two waterfronts.
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So did the care with which the paths were maintained: mudslides cleared; fallen sections shored up by massive tree trunks; stone slabs set in the steepest parts to form rough stairways.
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"This is just the beginning," Thanathorn told the cheering crowd that spilled across walkways and stairways close to the MBK Centre mall, in the heart of Bangkok's shopping and business district.
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Ben Tardif's 12' x 8' x 8' Marble Mountain, replete with ski jumps, a fairy tale castle, and an Escher-esque series of stairways, is a mesmerizing testament to craftsmanship and dedication.
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The interior—a somewhat Escherian symphony of blonde oak walls, open stairways and white marble recycled from the original building—was designed by John Pawson, the high priest of high-end minimalism.
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Moynihan will increase the concourse space of the two facilities by 50 percent, adding 30 new stairways, escalators and elevators to the platforms, which will move people on and off trains faster.
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The new wing design adds to other modifications presented earlier this year, including new stairways and cabin rest area to fit in more seats, with Airbus dubbing the enhanced version the "A380plus".
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That means flying my little ship over to the giant craft, finding a spot to land, and then making my way through the various ducts and stairways to fix things by hand.
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The typical unit "wasn't like a normal building, because the stairways would go up and then go into other buildings," explains Greg Girard, a photographer who moved to the territory in 1974.
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Kyrgios was also told to "play f------ing tennis" by his opponent after engaging in yet another argument with an umpire, this time over spectators being on the stairways during his serve.
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Television and social media footage from the scene shows heaving crowds of trapped commuters desperately trying to climb over railings and stairways to escape the crush, as lifeless bodies are pulled free.
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The city Parks Department keeps the statue in good shape, he added, "but the park surrounding it needed help" — including repaving paths, fixing stairways and creating new grading for wheelchairs and strollers.
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Take a walk through the residential streets in the morning and you will find people sleeping in doorways, behind bushes and hidden stairways, often leaving behind their refuse and scraps of clothing.
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In June, when it's planned to reopen, the decrepit station will look nearly unidentifiable, outfitted with new glass canopies, digital screens, mezzanine access, and stairways—except, notably, an elevator for ADA capabilities.
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The double helixes intrude upon the landscape like stairways from another dimension — bracing, alienating, and uncannily apropos — with blacksmith pincers, the tools of the trade, clamped at intervals along the metal spirals.
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"Underlying societal factors have led (in all countries) to a double standard and lower standard for home stairways compared to those in all other settings (such as workplaces)," Pauls told Reuters Health by email.
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Several are already doing so, including the CONCORD Group of companies, which manufactures pavement blocks and bricks for walls and roofs, and Mir Ceramics, which produces environmentally friendly tiles for flooring, walls and stairways.
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After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she threw herself into never-ending construction on her sprawling mansion — which features stairways to nowhere and doors that open onto walls — to appease the spirits.
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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.
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The failure of the energy system led to the evacuation of over 6,000 hospital patients down darkened stairways and brought transportation to a halt because, as it turns out, you can't pump fuel without power.
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The company's founders tell me they were inspired when they saw peers paying couch cutting/disassembly services to physically cut apart their couches for the sake of getting them up narrow New York apartment stairways.
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Locked in a stalemate, residents said the council has let the once-friendly park-side community become a danger zone with crumbling stairways, piles of rubbish, mice infestations, and heating blackouts nearly every week over winter.
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Originally a pristine structure stretching horizontally along the Bassac River, it was designed and built for working people who held jobs in the city, and featured open-air stairways and kitchens near balconies to facilitate outdoor cooking.
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During a tour of the refinished dome's interior, construction inspector Tom Nowell clambered up steep stairways to point out improvements, such as a new lighting system, walkways, new glazing and netting for access to hard-to-reach spots.
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One of these contracts went to ILC-Dover, among the handful of firms contracted to come up with retrofitted coverings for the thousands of varyingly-sized openings (stairways, grates, manholes, elevators, and escalators, etc.) which need to be plugged.
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Now, four children — Brooklyn, Hunter, Montana, and the now-famous Dutch — will have their run of the stairways and chambers in the governor's mansion, the home in which Mr. Brown spent time when his own father, Pat, was governor.
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During the worst of the occupations by gangs and heroin merchants, who adapted the buildings' design to their advantage by blocking stairways and sealing doors against police raids, many working-class people continued with their lives and kept their apartments immaculate.
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At the Samuel Park Apartments building where Ostrem lived, most tenants talk to each other, but renter Teresa Muniz said Ostrem never returned her greetings and swore at people for sitting on exterior stairways and leaving laundry in communal machines.
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LAS VEGAS – Police body camera videos made public Wednesday show SWAT teams searching stairways and offices of a Las Vegas hotel and officers directing panicked people to flee a concert venue during a shooting that killed 58 people and injured hundreds.
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"The FLA program is developing a new class of algorithms aimed at enabling small UAVs to quickly navigate a labyrinth of rooms, stairways and corridors or other obstacle-filled environments without a remote pilot," DARPA writes on its FLA program website.
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"Under his gavel, the city has legalized the sale of ice cream cones, provided more public toilets, built new stairways to the town beach and expedited previously stalled efforts to expand Carmel's library," The Times reported 16 months into his term.
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The iBot debuted back in the late '90s as an innovative multi-wheel chair that gave wheelchair-bound users the ability to travel up steep stairways, elevate themselves to the height of a standing person and even traverse rough, outside terrain.
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The music was pounding, and lights flashing, but when your eyes adjusted to the neon and then the dim, there they were: 266 mannequins wearing vintage Raf Simons, paired in groups or hanging over stairways like partygoers at a thumping club.
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"I live in a fourth floor walk-up, so when I stumble up the narrow stairways carrying heavy packages — like giant, 73-pound bean bag chairs — the only thought going through my head is, 'This better be worth it,'" Connie wrote.
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The mill is a vast dystopian landscape, "a grisly amusement park," with chimneys jutting up at freakish angles, crumbling concrete, stairways to nowhere, gantry cranes, catwalks — and everything, even the workers in their jumpsuits and hard hats, is covered in dust.
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Ring the bell and a staffer guides you through a warren of pipelined stairways to the basement bar, a circa 21969 cold storage cellar, where bartenders specialize in seasonal cocktails like summer's gin-basil-cucumber-green-strawberry Starling (2299 dollars).
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" Held on Thursday in the courtyard of the Palais de Tokyo, on a vertiginous three-story scaffold of ramps and stairways, Mr. Owens's show was titled "Dirt" and set to a remix of Egyptian Lover's often-sampled "I Need a Freak.
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The pier's potential as a monumental site for sprawling, absurdly unmarketable artworks, painted directly on the walls and installed across the stairways, was first recognized by Wojnarowicz and Mike Bidlo, who told friends who told friends, and a loosely-knit community was born.
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The largest and most detailed of the urban scene drawings beautifully captures the effect of the spreading apron of paths and stairways around a large column, and then the array of skyscrapers — squat, but large and airily illuminated — pressing from either side.
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For example, construction of ramps, widening doorways or hallways for wheelchair access, and installing modifications to bathrooms or stairways, including lifts and handrails, will qualify for a full medical deduction as long as their addition does not increase the value of the property.
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The house's elaborate, sprawling, and labyrinthine structure—with 161 rooms, stairways that end in blank walls, closets that open up to the floor below, and cabinets that open out to hallways and ballrooms—was, the story goes, a means of keeping those ghosts at bay.
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The stagings I saw, a "Tristan" whose first-act ship was represented by a series of Escher-like stairways, and a "Götterdämmerung" with a climactic scene in front of the New York Stock Exchange, would have been unrecognizable to audiences of a century ago.
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Take Physical Limitations Into Consideration When Planning Your Trip Santorini may sound like a dream vacation, but it's an island with lots of hills and long, unavoidable stairways leading to the main towns and many hotels — not ideal for travelers who have issues with climbing or walking.
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When the L train tunnel under the East River shuts down to repair damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, subway officials hope many riders will switch to other lines like the G, where they plan to add service and upgrade the Court Square station in Queens with two new stairways.
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The night would become alive with men cruising up and down the street, disappearing in pairs up the stairways that intersected the hills, fucking on people's lawns, or meeting in dark corners, bending over cars to take dick, small orgies forming, only to be broken up by passing headlights.
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Poods, as locals refer to the park, is a 13,000-square-foot slab of grey and orange concrete planes and waves and ledges, pierced by flatbars and stairways to nowhere, and surrounded by a parking lot, a soccer field, and a few palm trees that don't provide any shade.
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There was something grand about the White Building's persistent viability, with its independent-minded population of the artistic and service class, though to some eyes the surrounding piles of garbage, clinging vines, water-damaged concrete, re-paintings, canopies, rusted stairways must have appeared to push it to the breaking point.
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"The MTA is committed to making sure that customers are able to move as easily as possible during the Canarsie Tunnel repairs and accordingly more than two dozen stairways are planned to be reopened, expanded, or built anew along the impacted lines," Shams Tarek, an MTA spokesperson, said in a statement to VICE.
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Other winners include periscopes built out of PVC tubes at East Harlem bus stops and retractable jump ropes outside barber shops and salons in Richmond, Va. Sidewalks in Detroit will be repainted to resemble sprinting tracks and slides will pop up next to stairways used to commute through the slopes of Knoxville, Tenn.
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They were originally banned by the authority in charge of advertising on the subway, but after Thinx started talking to the press about it and highlighting "risqué" ads for breast enhancement and lingerie that the agency had greenlit, the ads eventually got approved and were papered onto seemingly every available subway surface, including entire stairways.
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There are three things wrong here: from a practical perspective, for folks who need elevators; the whole moral issue, of, yet again, we're neglecting the needs of riders who are disabled during an emergency shutdown; and then the legal aspect, where, at Broadway Junction and Court Square, they are only creating new stairways and widening existing stairs.
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We are also told that the back stairways are all made of marble and white tile because when the home was being built there was a shortage of lower-class people looking for work and so when servants came in, they would be awed by this incredibly clean and beautiful below-stairs area and want to work in the home.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "If Police Stairwell Shooting Was Accident, Conditions Were Not" (news article, April 22): In discussing the Louis H. Pink Houses, where Akai Gurley died as a result of a shot fired by a police officer in November 2014, you establish a false equivalence among broken elevators, unlighted stairways and police patrol in housing developments, as if all three were signs of neglect.
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On my first day in the city, the memories came flooding back, sparked by the old apartment buildings painted in the blues and pinks of storybook nurseries; the Star Ferry, with its wooden benches, still chugging across Victoria Harbour on a 10-minute ride; the ubiquitous handcarts transporting boxes of goods from trucks to stores; the dense greenery that improbably hangs between office buildings and over the stairways that wind their way up the vertical cityscape.
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