People really hate Thomas Heatherwick’s new Escher-esque “Vessel,” a climbable sculpture in New York City’s billionaire playground of Hudson Yards, and they’re not afraid to wax poetic about it. They might not get you from one floor of a building to another; in fact, you might not even be able to step on them without sliding off or getting vertigo. Since she had no deadline for completion, she'd either tear down the mistake or cover it up with something else. But these 15 spectacular floating spiral staircases and stairways to nowhere go beyond utilitarian architectural features that resemble modern art– they are art. To be fair, one has to concede that Vessel has at least a few positive aspects: the views from atop the piece are impressive; it feels vaguely unsafe, particularly when it’s windy, which is kind of fun; and the staffers working to manage its huge line are friendly and unflappable.

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I’ll always joke about it: ‘We can’t do this again,’ ” said Primo Orpilla, principal and founder of the firm O+A, which designed the Slack headquarters in San Francisco. In the 18th century, we thought that progress would always continue, that things would always get better.Some of the most transformative urban developments in New York City over the past decade, like Brooklyn Bridge Park, have started with parks.

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The architect Morris Lapidus understood this when he designed the grand staircase of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami. However, the interesting fact is that the whole structure does not comprise a single space where one may have a seat. Believing that ghosts would get lost on stairs that went nowhere or accidentally step out of a door that went outside, Mrs. It’s only open in hours of daylight, and you have to book (free) tickets 14 days in advance to climb.

Winchester boarded up the rooms damaged by the earthquake so that they would never be repaired, and thus, never finished. Over the past couple years, when I happened to be in the neighborhood, I looked at the monstrosity under construction with a mixture of disgust and horrified glee, in awe that so much money was being spent to build something so blithely tone deaf and, at the same time, so utterly banal—a huge network of staircases leading to nowhere.

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Olafur Eliasson’s sculpture, entitled Rewriting, is a route to nothingness in the middle of a Munich office building’s interior courtyard. And a limit to the number of people getting inside the structure also raises a question against it being a public amenity. It has the same rusty color as local ironstone, a deliberate reference that does not indicate that the metal is in danger of falling apart. Their series ‘Beautiful Steps’ features not only twisting white spiral staircases that hover in mid-air in gallery spaces, but also a curved stairway that leads out one window of a building and back into the same room through another window.That anecdote sprang to mind this past weekend as I stood atop Vessel, British designer Thomas Heatherwick’s 150-foot-tall sculpture in the plaza of Hudson Yards, the hybrid office park, condo haven, and luxury mall that officially opened last week in Manhattan. That sensation is quickly betrayed by the fact that some parts of it are already scuffed and dirty, however.

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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. She takes casts of industrial staircases and turns them into hulking white abstracted sculpture, giving the negative space a physical presence. A distinct offshoot of the Mid-Century Modern architectural style, Miami Modernist architecture (coined MiMo) developed in South Florida during the post-war period.

It’s understandable that the developers of the air rights over the Hudson Yards are keen on something eye-catching to break any feeling of monotony in the new architecture, and act as a draw, but will this be any more wondrous than Anish Kapoor’s Arcelor Mittal Orbit, Heatherwick’s Paddington Basin Bridge, his Garden Bridge or his King’s Cross Coal Drops? The young couple started a family in 1866, but their daughter, Annie, died in infancy, a blow that Mrs. The platform upon which it’s built is certainly a feat of engineering, and advocates note that the project will add 4,000 new apartments, a school, parkland and as many as 55,000 jobs to the city. Sometimes it seemed she didn't care what she built, as long as she could hear the hammers of her crew. Its name is fitting, some argue, as it’s little more than an empty monument to the outrageous excess with which it’s surrounded.