Stairway To Nowhere

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Developers and city officials have long seen the “Far West Side,” which used to be little more than an open pit full of trains, as a blank canvas, with Hudson Yards only emerging as the victor after the death of a dream to host the Olympics in this spot. But careful — don’t confuse these dramatic thigh-high risers for an actual user-friendly stairway: A guy on a date catches his toe on an edge and trips on his way up.

Stairway to Nowhere: On the Pleasure of Hating Thomas Stairway to Nowhere: On the Pleasure of Hating Thomas

Cities need to plan their own megaprojects, invest in the transportation network, make those parks, and then let the developers in to fill them out—on the city’s terms. In this lesson, students are asked to talk about their predictions based on the title of the photograph. Rather than plowing through the interruption, the artist stopped his line near it, and began it again on the other side.Installed by the Public Art Fund, it’s a roughly 90-foot-long wooden corridor with a humble pointed roof, open at both ends.

Stairway to nothingness Dachstein - a fascinating glacier Stairway to nothingness Dachstein - a fascinating glacier

Some other famous numbers associated with the house include its 47 fireplaces, 17 chimneys, two basements, six kitchens, 10,000 window panes and 467 doorways [source: Winchester Mystery House]. It offers itself as a model for how the built environment can be made just a bit better—a little more interesting and a little more humane. And unless they’re “stramps” — a terrible word for a combination stair/ramp — they’re inaccessible to many disabled visitors. Winchester consulted a psychic medium who told her that her family was haunted by ghosts that would never be happy unless she built a house for them.In what reads almost as a conceptual aspect of this overbearing artwork, the legal terms and conditions attached to admission tickets state that ERY Vessel LLC, the company that operates Vessel, has the right to use any photos or recordings you create for “any purpose whatsoever in any and all media. This was no ordinary construction job, though; the house is an oddball labyrinth of rooms that at one point reached seven stories. I was spending a few days in San Francisco, and I kept seeing advertisements for the Winchester Mystery House.