THE LIVING STAIRCASE
Photography ©Mark Cocksedge
The Living Staircase is punctuated with landings for reading, drawing and drinking tea, and topped with a herb garden.
The permanent installation rises through the curvilinear atrium of the Ampersand office building in Soho, London, where it provides dynamic connectivity between the four floors.
Read More +Planting along the entire balustrade forms a ‘flying’ garden which can be tended by the building’s community.
“The Living Staircase is a combination of staircase and room, movement and stillness, vertical and horizontal. At every turn there is an opportunity to stop and look, smell, read, write, talk, meet, think, and rest. If a staircase is about going from A to B, there is now a whole world living and breathing in the space between the two.” – Paul Cocksedge.
DETAILS
DATE
2015
London
LOCATION
⌀ 5.5, 12.5m( H)
SIZE
Steel, Wood, Planting
