` 10 amazing staircases arOund the wOrld `

1. Spiral Stair (Australia)
Fascinating spiral stairs at Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia. 6.5 revs and five stories from top to bottom

2. Spiral Staircase at the Vatican Museum (Italy)
The Vatican Museums spiral staircase is one of the most photographed in the world, and certainly one of the most beautiful. Designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932, the broad steps are somewhere between a ramp and a staircase.

3. Loretto Chapel Staircase (USA)
The Loretto Chapel is a chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, known for its unusual spiral staircase that is an exceptional work of carpentry. The construction and builder of the staircase are considered a miracle by the Sisters of Loretto and many who visit it, because it had no central support (a support was added later).


4. Tulip Staircase at the Queen's House (England)
The elegant Tulip Stairs in the Queen's House are the first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain.

5. Staircase at Lello Bookshop (Portugal)
This interesting grand staircase in Lello Bookshop in Portugal stands ominous and heavy.

6. San Francisco's Tiled Steps - World's Longest Mosaic Stair (USA)
The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps, perhaps the world's longest mosaic staircase (163 steps, 82' high), was conceived and fabricated by Irish ceramicist Aileen Barr and San Francisco mosaic artist Colette Crutcher.

7. Umschreibung - KPMG Building Munich (Germany)
This artistic staircase designed by Olafur Eliasson is called Umschreibung (Rewriting), and was completed in 2004. It's in the courtyard of the global accounting firm KPMG in Munich.

8. Stairs at the Longchamp Store (New York)
Constructed in 1¼” hot-rolled steel and taking six months to be built, the sta ir landscape weighs 55 tons and is an installation of ribbon-like forms that divide and converge to form a topography of walkways, landings and steps.

9. Vertigo Staircase at the QVB Building (Australia)
This image shows “The Grand Staircase" of Sydney's Grand Queen Victoria Building. This building, now affectionately known as the QVB, wasdesigned by George McRae and completed in 1898, replacing the original Sydney markets on the site. Built as a monument to the long reigning monarch, construction took place in dire times, as Sydney was in a severe recession.

10. Bridge-stair at the Traversinertobel (Switzerland)
The bridge over the Traversinertobel, a side valley of the Via Mala, is the latest structure of this kind designed by engineer Jürg Conzett and his associate Rolf Bachofner .