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Ten amazing staircases

Think staircases are just a burden to use when the lifts are broken? Think again as you look at these ten amazing staircases from around the world, including one of the most photographed staircases ever built.

Just sometimes staircases are given their proper place in buildings that also come with lifts. But far too often they’re still treated, despite growing awareness of the benefits of encouraging people who can to take the stairs, as if an embarrassing cousin at Christmas, to be hidden around the back, pass the toilets and through the door marked ’emergency exit’.

One I would add to the above list, though it isn’t open to the public most of the year, is the Grand Shaft. It’s a very clever triple spiral staircase built on the Western Heights in Dover that is really three staircases in one, letting troops rush down from the top of a cliff to the bottom in order to defend Dover at treble the rate a normal staircase would have allowed.

For more staircases, take a look at these interior design triumphs.

2 responses to “Ten amazing staircases”

    • And we can offer one of the best … the amazing spiral staircase in the National Liberal Club in London 🔸️ 🔶️ 😀

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