Stairs of COC, 2012 edition

Stairways and stairwells.
Experimenting with the photo size.

COC is a college on hills.  And that means lots of stairs.  Grey stairs

And up stairs.

And hidden stairs.

And yellow stairs.

Here's Stairing at You, Miami Beach

Some stairs in Miami Beach.  Most of these are undoubtedly from a time when climbing a few stairs would not have been considered an inconvenience. 

The Miami Beach convention center. 

Remnant stairs part of an ongoing reconstruction.  

Blue stairs.  Wouldn't blue be hot on feet?  White paint might be better, though it would show the dirt more.  

More blue stairs on the same property as the previous picture.  

A decorous stairwell on the side of a parking ramp.  Parking ramps usually aren't too attractive, but this Miami Beach ramp is clean on the outside, apparently well maintained, and much nicer than the typical ramp.  

BILONS Design Lisbon

Cool designs from Lisbon.  Its funny, but Europe seems more likely to try new things and to experiment, more so than the United States. 

I have no ideas what these three posts were for.  I would normally expect to perhaps see anti-car parking posts along here, the posts that the Portuguese (and undoubtedly in many European countries) implant in the sidewalk to prevent cars from parking. 

Chairs and table.  Don't you want the tables to have matching holes?  

Not every attempt at novel design is a winner, but these were certainly eye catching.  Also note the specific shape of the bench: designed for discomfort. 

Cubalibre bar and the (what else would you call it?) Vasco de Gama bridge in the background.  

Science museum.  Apparently bigfoot tracked dirt in.  

The metro station as seen out the back end of Vasco de Gama mall.  The metro station interior was, frankly, bizarre, hidden underneath what you see.  Huge spaces, dark plain concrete, doorways and stairs leading to unknown places, all completely unlabeled.  

Bike rack, novel design.  

Stairs on the outside of the aquarium.  For the fish to climb up and down on.  

Tile work on one wall of the aquarium.  This is the close-up.  The next photo is the big picture. 

Mural of tiles.  Either its a bunny or its someone kicking a small cuddly doggie.  Or its a fish.  

Stairs If You Can Stand It

Stairs.  I love taking pictures of stairs. 

Is this the way into someone's residence?  Or an emergency exit?  Nice shadows. 

Stairs from the praca in front of the Teatro Sao Carlos up towards Praca Camoes.  

Shallow stairs up between two buildings, just above the opera house.  Usually stairs are much steeper than this in Lisbon.  I think the Porsche (see earlier posts) was up at the end of this alley or else parked along this street.  

Another Teatro on the street above the Opera Teatro Sao Carlos.  I'm assuming these were added at the request of either M.C. Escher or the fire marshall.  

You've seen the hand rail before, now see the stairs down into earth. 

A couple blocks from Rossio and the Elevador do Carmo.  

Lisbon Stairways to Heaven

Stairways, up and down between floors, not usually going all the way to heaven. 

This stairway was in a small mall in Miratejo.  An odd place, with some pretension towards style, but in the end, just a small micro-mall. 

Outside stair to each level of this building.  You have to get in and out of the house somehow.  I wonder if the front also had a stairwell, was this the fire escape?  

This is a common situation: A building is built blocking a commonly traveled route, and they leave a passageway in the middle of the building for the public to travel through the building.   

An exterior staircase on a large office building, visible through the facade of another building undergoing reconstruction.