Stairs Gallery

Entrance Hall, Sheffield Town Hall BL13722

Town Hall, Pinstone Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Interior of Sheffield Town Hall showing the entrance hall and grand staircase. The town hall was designed by E. W. Mountford. This photograph shows the grand staircase of the building with decorative planting supplied by the nurseries of Fisher, Son and Sibray, possibly in preparation for the opening of the town hall by Queen Victoria on May 21st 1897. Photographed by Henry Bedford Lemere.

Ross Bridge, Ross, Central Tasmania, Australia

Ross Bridge is an historic bridge in the town of Ross in central Tasmania, Australia which crosses the Macquarie River. It was completed in July 1836 and was designed by architect John Lee Archer, with the convict work team including two stonemasons, James Colbeck and Daniel Herbert.

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Penrose stairs, artwork

Penrose stairs, computer artwork. This is an impossible figure created by the physicist Roger Penrose and used by M C Escher in his illustration Ascending and Descending. The staircase loops back to join itself whilst still appearing to have steps of the same size throughout, all going in one vertical direction. This is an example of an object that can be drawn but not created.

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