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Discussion: The Staircase – a Mirror of Architecture
A staircase is a circulation node, a vertical link between different levels, a space-defining structure and the only element of a building that is, by...
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Discussion: Staircases Are In Again
A study of modern building regulations governing the construction of stairs might, at first sight, lead one to despair. Every dimension and detail wo...
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Discussion: Staircases in Housing – a Necessary Attribute?
Two quite different images of vertical circulation have impressed themselves on our consciousness: the dismal escape stairs in high-rise urban block...
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Discussion: Reopening of the Centre Pompidou
Richard Rogers’ and Renzo Piano’s Centre Pompidou is open again. Together with Jean François Bodin, Piano has removed the signs of wear and tear cause...
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Discussion: Innovation, Urbanity, Poetry – Renzo Piano in the Centre Pompidou
It is not often that an architect can present a retrospective of his own work in one of the key buildings of his design career. The Renzo Piano exhibi...
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Discussion: The Staircase as a Facade Design Element – Two Housing Blocks in Gifu, Japan
The designs of these public housing schemes, awarded to Kazuyo Sejima and Akiko Takahashi as part of a support programme for women architects, reveal...
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