Giant scaffolding staircase in Rotterdam city centre

A giant staircase from Stationsplein, Rotterdam’s central station, to the top of the Groot Handelsgebouw.

The giant staircase, designed by MVRDV, will remain open to the public until June 12, 2016.

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Winy Maas, co-founder of MVRDV, explains:

“With this installation and in our exhibition we show what this city could look like if we do that in many places, engaging a series of our existing buildings and giving access to their roofs, to create a new, much more interactive, three dimensional and denser urban topography for the next city generation.”

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via dezeen