Word: stairways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America, a really terrible enfant terrible. Both his innumerable theoretical essays and his few buildings (four houses in two decades) seemed pretentious and willfully opaque, caricatures of neomodernism. One Eisenman house had a column in the bedroom that precluded a bed, another a hole in the floor and a stairway that ran from the ceiling halfway down a wall. The architect used to say he would not dream of living in one of his houses ("Art and life are two different things...
...left to build in the architectural jokes: the disintegrating ersatz archway and cartoony castellated brick towers around the perimeter of Wexner (alluding to an old armory on the site that was razed in 1958); the curious floor-to-chest-height windows in the top-floor offices; the short, folly stairway that goes nowhere; or the boatlike carbuncle on top of the building with no practical function whatsoever...
...take his time. In any case, Hazelwood ordered Cousins to make a right turn back into the outbound lanes when the vessel reached a navigational point near Busby Island, three miles north of Bligh Reef. The captain then returned to his cabin, just 15 ft. and one stairway from the bridge, reportedly to complete his paperwork...
...secure night access, Harvard should install a lock system in the elevators that can only be worked from the guard's desk, so that people would have to call down to the desk in order to gain access to any floor but the first. The stairway should be locked...
State documents reveal that a state inspector on unrelated business was examining the Carpenter Center in October 1985 when he found the widely-spaced stairway rails "in gross violation of our present code." According to current code, stair railings may not be separated by more than six inches...