Cathy Purple Cherry of Purple Cherry Architects in Annapolis, Maryland, designed this triple staircase to have a classical coastal railing design. In the landing sits a tail wing that the client, a ...

My best advice about that landing area: Turn it into a daytime space, maybe a little library or a comfortable sitting room outside the second-floor bedrooms … as architect Rick Renner has done ...

John Salka describes how stairways can assist or hinder fire operations. Some stairs simply run up to the next level in a straight line. It’s a pretty simple design and usually quite easy to ...

Measure a stairway with a landing as if the landing were one deep step. Ideally, cover the landing and the first riser above it with one piece. If you can’t, include the riser with the steps ...

The landing of Gonzalez’s condo staircase collapsed. “We don’t know if it’s safe or not,” he said. “I looked out the window, and I realized there was no landing. ...

We are redoing a stair landing and wanted to know if a guardrail is required by code? The landing is less than 30″ above the finished Residential Code we do not need a guardrail, but NYC’s code does ...