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I'm a young architect, and obiviously naive.

I'm doing a house, its got a great stairwell, naturally :), but I'm stumped about how to make the handrail, balustrade look as good as I would like.

When I look to magazines, websites for inspiration I see glorious, flowing staircases that bear no resemblance to the BCA requirements.

How do you do it???

andi...you lost for ideas...????

haha...yep was dropped at birth, no actually pushed down a flight.....

andi, as the great purveyor of all things architecture....help the northerner out put some of your lovely flowing stair pics up....

remember there are no stairs in cabs.....only lifting platforms....

Well - I'm not going to scan in the mag shots, or find all of them on the web - but some of the stairs here (www.stairporn.org) give you an idea. No handrail and/ or balustrade.

I remember being a student and Timothy Hill showing pics of a house and quite openly stating it was illegal. (?)

Or even something more simple like this...

No - not really cause I want to know how you manage to get the building surveyor to sign off on that.....

Is there a secret handshake I must learn??

^ like a building made of waiting rooms hey andi.
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b lucky 2 find a BS willing to bend.
there was a good bloke out in the east of marxico city worked 4 a chinamen.
but the x coppers running the BCC have put the cuffs on him.
cashed cheques, stamped thousands of building permits, neva looked at the drawings + never went on site.
think hes going 2 jail. - some receivers r in a world of pain & compliance torture.

hey andi......

where's your stairs....?????

For best "flowing" effect that complies, have glass 1m above floor with handrail

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nice try @ stevies hole -andi.
can there b anything more confusing 2 zombies than coming 2 terms with decomposing as they dissolve into nothing?
stair treads that could hold up a kenworth = just 2 close gap to less than 125mm.
german sausage handrail - work of great zombie engineer in the shool of fatachetti.
u have been sneaking down to the hall of mirrors at Looney Park & standing in front of the fat one too long.



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option (c) - $100 on it, within 5 years, luke will take me up.
ramps r the way 2 go? - am fitting out the salon with wheelchair accessible shaving seats.

Sliding off topic... I hadn't thought about seats... I find it quite easy to fall out of some of those workstation ones with wheels on them. As they have wheels I guess they are vehicles, and so should have seat belts. Or at least a velcro strip that latches onto your pants.

^^^
one waiting room is as good as another - more evidence of the spread of marxican arseimulation virus north.

^^ arm rest air bags?

^ ditch 4 wot? BCA is tidy bat @ the crease 4 rectification innings.
can't wait 4 cruelty of envelope pressure testing. couple of years is salon gossip.
zombies will keel over with those electrodes on their nuts?

i have heard that some people build a balustrade, obtain the occupation permit, and then remove the balustrade. which is of course not legal.

gd

^^^.....in the bowl.

zombie caryatid is polisher.

ha
gainfully employed gen x = zombie caryatid?

^ wasp? u r thinking of the staff.

xactly. emmyou 4 last decade.

aged baby boomer and xgen mudwasp staff frozen into zombie caryatids while caught in the act of polishing see through ghost of coilers hanging in the bowl .....in a back room psuedo historians catalogue various shapes that shit comes in 2 make coffee table toilet rolls.

living dead students from somewhere else with backs turned stare into eurotrash cyberspace.
who wouldn't?

but y discriminate.
rimmers no better/worse? name says it all.

geee long started as a fly blown tomb - maggots and cobwebs. every year more dirt in a hole that never gets filled.

sidaknee is the place to b? least its a view of something.

bris/vegas fights a losing battle 2 keep the wetback outfall washback off the beaches.

wa is a sandpit that expels odours eastward.

sa has been a safe haven for nazis since WW2.

Stairways to heaven (after a 12m fall)

Anti - yes - that stair /house was one I saw a while ago - How?? Maybe a nifty reclassification of landscaping/roofing...

But your point is taken. Stairs should have all the features for safety. Although surely we can't all be big brother?

Would you make the argument that magazines that publish these glorious stairs of death could be likened to advertising a chainsaw without a handle? Where is the responsible journalism?

Perhaps in the Herald??? :)

Ne
whats with japs and their nuclear bunkers?

^^nippon earthquake construction + no space 2 waste beats the shit out of faked up waiting rooms 4 hamburger zombies lost in limbo is whats with it andi?

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/uni-student-dies-after-falling-down-stairwell-during-orientation-week-20100225-p4b7.html

like u got over it on your summer break andi?

http://www.butterpaper.com/vanilla/comments.php?DiscussionID=1469&page=5

Beer is cold messiah...........there are four Xs on the label.
Up here thats called a ladder not a stair and a spade is a spade.

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slow night out there, huh...?

^HD, I hope that marxicotect doesn't do student colleges?

Just saw your bet 30^ HD. Your on and double the money. I'm calling an outright ban on stairs and retrospective ramp legislation at the track.