Staircases can trigger conversations, provide a sense of arrival and dazzle with ingenuity, so why are they often overlooked?

Striking designs in architecture also become the sign of great conversations to understand architectural space, as with one of the most surprising staircase of contemporary architecture, the staircase of the National Bank of Denmark, designed by Arne Jacobsen, in the middle of Copenhagen, between 1966 and 1978. A triangular space, where the ascension process is magnified, as has rarely been done in 20th century architecture.
 

In 1961 Arne Jacobsen won a restricted tender for the design of the building. The project has fully the issues that the architect submitted in the contest, except that the building rotates 180 degrees to change the original facade located on the north side and passing to be located permanently in the opposite facade for security reasons.

The first phase was completed in 1971 with the construction of printing and of the offices, after the architect’s death the rest of the building, the entrance and the lower body were completed by its collaborators and partners and Otto Hans Dissing Weitling, this phase completed in 1978.

A modest and discreet opening in the south facade is the main entrance, through a curved corridor is the powerful lobby of almost 20 meters high, a space with a ladder suspended from the ceiling that serves as access to the six floors.

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Published on: August 13, 2017
Cite: "The beauty of stairs. The Ascension of the Architecture" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/beauty-stairs-ascension-architecture> ISSN 1139-6415
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