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OYO Architects positions spiral staircase at the heart of brick and concrete House Dede

May 22, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A wooden spiral staircase winds through the home

OYO Architects has completed a house on the site of an old barn in Drongen, Belgium, featuring a cross-shaped plan with a spiral staircase at its centre. Local studio OYO Architects was approached to design a family home for a rural plot in Drongen, which is a district within the city of Ghent. House Dede

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Tommy Rand’s self-build house features a CNC-cut spiral staircase

March 18, 2021 Amy Frearson 0
Spiral staircase in Tommy Rand house in Denmark

Danish architect and developer Tommy Rand has built a house for himself and his family in Denmark, featuring a spiral staircase made from 630 pieces of CNC-cut plywood. Located on the outskirts of Aarhus, the two-storey house was designed with minimalism in mind. It comprises five rectilinear blocks of different sizes and proportions, arranged together

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Kelly Wearstler creates sculptural oak staircase for hotel in Austin

March 5, 2021 India Block 0
Austin Proper Hotel staircase

Interior designer Kelly Wearstler included eye-catching details such as vintage rugs and a white oak staircase that doubles as a ceramics display in her design for the Austin Proper Hotel and Residences. Built in 2019 by New York firm Handel Architects, the 32-storey hotel and apartments managed by McGuire Moorman Hospitality is located in Downtown

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Sky-blue cafe in Buffalo features “Alice in Wonderland” staircase

February 14, 2021 Jane Englefield 0
Tipico Cafe in Buffalo

Canadian design duo Coryn Kempster and Julia Jamrozik have created a playful all-blue cafe in a century-old house in Buffalo, New York, with an optical illusion staircase. Named Tipico Coffee, the cafe’s identity was formed with the intention of designing a space that encourages social interactions and supports local craftsmanship. Reclaimed furniture and lighting made

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Echlin uses broken-plan layout to create spacious interiors within London mews house

February 3, 2021 Ali Morris 0
Living room and green wall of the Knightsbridge Mews House by Echlin

A nearly six-metre-high green wall and a basement floor with a walk-on skylight are among the additions made by design and development firm Echlin to this remodelled mews house in Knightsbridge. The resulting design is described by the local firm as a “reinterpretation” of a classic London mews house, with plenty of useable and flexible

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EBBA Architects remodels London apartment with bespoke joinery

February 2, 2021 Ali Morris 0
Double-height pine wood shelving unit from Bow Quarter interior by EBBA Architects

Structural ash and pine joinery – including a staircase, mezzanine and double-height storage wall – delineate the space within this refurbished, open-plan apartment in London by EBBA Architects. Located in an old matchstick factory in the city’s East End, the one-bedroom, 80-square-metre apartment belongs to a young professional couple, who asked the emerging local firm to

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Zero Energy Design Lab creates Girls’ Hostel Block with hollow concrete facade

January 12, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Girls Hostel Block by Zero Energy Design Lab

New Delhi-based design studio Zero Energy Design Lab has completed a girls’ hostel building with a perforated concrete facade and an exterior staircase in Gurugram, India. The design for the Girls’ Hostel Block, part of the St. Andrews Institute of Technology and Management, took its cues from the adjacent boys’ hostel block and features the

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Dezeen’s top staircases of 2020

December 2, 2020 India Block 0
Stairway House by Nendo

For our review of 2020 here are Dezeen’s top 10 staircases this year, including a blue steel stairway by Virgil Abloh and a house by Nendo divided by giant concrete stairs. He Art Museum by Tadao Ando, Guangdong, China Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando has built a pair of giant, concrete helical staircases that twist around

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Carlo Ratti unveils digital arts centre with zigzag orange staircase

October 29, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
Central stairwell of MEET by Carlo Ratti Associati

Italian architect Carlo Ratti has revealed his design for MEET, Milan’s centre for digital culture and creative technology, which centres around a colourful zigzag-shaped staircase. MEET is located in a historic palazzo in the Porta Venezia neighbourhood in Milan, to which Ratti added a 15-metre-high stairwell. Ratti’s design was informed by an earlier renovation of

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