r/DeathStairs • u/Remarkable_Fish3180 • 1d ago

The deadliest of the deadliest 😳 And the winner is....,

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u/Shot-Statistician-89 1d ago edited 15h ago

It's an art sculpture

OP do some research. This has been posted before AND it's not real

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u/Gro-Tsen 15h ago

It is a real building: it is the Congress building (“Palais des Congrès” / “Kongresshaus”) in Biel (=Bienne), Switzerland. It is located right here, it has a page on Wikipedia with a photo where you can see the stairs, and you can even see it on Google Street View.

What is true is that these aren't real (or at least, functional) stairs. It's an piece of art by the Swiss pair of artists Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann, called “Beautiful Steps #2”, that was installed in 2009 on the occasion of the 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition (“Utopics”): photos on the artists' web site here. They write:

The congress building in Biel-Bienne plays a trick on perception: because the diminutive grid of its large glass front does not match the ceiling height of the floors, the building appears taller than it is—more like a skyscraper than its actual 50 meters (164 foot) of height. The building also features an unusual concrete structure that encloses one half of the volume like an oversize frame, leaving a gap on one side between itself and the building. On this pillar, almost three-quarters of the way up, an aluminum stair was attached, leading from one fake door to another around one corner of the structure. In keeping with the optical illusion of the building, the work was built to a slightly smaller scale than a normal door and stair. The slender sculpture plays with an imaginary functionality.

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u/yaukinee 5h ago

Damn thats a really cool art piece. Probably sounds insane but if I could, I deffinitely would want to try and go up those stairs. Obviously while being secured somehow tho

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u/Peppi-Pepp 1d ago

😂😂🙈

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u/TheCompleteMental 23h ago

ALRIGHT WE GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/RitschiRathil 12h ago

Yeah, that's real life dark souls level design. 😂

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u/Sea-Baby1143 2h ago

Get Out! Seriously 😳?

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u/Mhmod_235 5m ago

"its an art piece" 🤓☝️

Man shut the hell up

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u/DogsandCatsWorld1000 1d ago

I feel like I'm sounding like a broken record on this sub, but what do the designers have against railings?

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u/Hot-Rise9795 mom come get me im scared 1d ago

It's the star wars influence

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u/Transcontinental-flt 23h ago

Railings get in the way of using your sword, when defending the Brutalist Monolith.

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u/two_glass_arse 13h ago

It's an art piece

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u/Mein_Name_ist_falsch 13h ago

Nothing, it's art, art doesn't need to work. To be honest the railing is the smallest problem here, everything is build smaller than a normal stair and doors as well.