For our review of 2020 here are Dezeen's top 10 staircases this year, including a blue steel stairway by Virgil Abloh and a house by Nendo divided by giant concrete stairs. More about Dezeen's top 10 staircases of 2020
Zellige is a social housing complex in Nantes, France, designed in a collaboration between French architecture studios Tectône and Tact Architectes. More about Spiral staircase twists through Zellige apartment complex by Tectône and Tact Architectes
London studio Sybarite has designed a store for fashion label Joseph in the Miami Design District to include round balconies, curved railings and spiral stairs as a reference to the city's seaside architecture. More about Black spiral staircase twists through Joseph store in Miami Design District
A spiral staircase twists 810 degrees to form a viewpoint designed by architecture studio Doarchi to look out over the mountains close to Shenzhen. More about Spiral lookout tower gives views of the mountains in Shenzhen
A spiral staircase breaks the linear geometry in a Japanese house designed by Kazunori Fujimoto Architects & Associates, which is made nearly entirely of concrete. More about Concrete spiral staircase disrupts linear interiors of House in Ashiya
A spiral staircase made of concrete rises through the centre of an open-plan office designed by architecture studio Hildebrand in Steinhausen, Switzerland. More about Concrete spiral staircase twists through open-plan office by Hildebrand
Snøhetta has revealed visuals for a major new opera house in Shanghai, featuring a spiralling stepped roof that will connect the upper levels of the building with a riverside plaza. More about Snøhetta to build Shanghai Grand Opera House with spiral staircase roof
Vine Architecture Studio has refurbished a rooftop apartment in east London, with features including a yellow spiral staircase and generous rooflights that fill the interior with daylight. More about Vine Architecture Studio brightens up Mile End Road home with yellow staircase and skylights
MAD has revealed visuals of a "theatrical" spiral staircase set to create a panoramic viewing platform for a historic warehouse on Rotterdam's waterfront. More about MAD to build huge blue spiral staircase in old Fenix warehouse in Rotterdam
Dezeen promotion: the 10-tonne copper spiral staircase rising through an atrium of CEBRA's Experimentarium in Denmark is lit from above by Velux skylights. More about Velux skylights illuminate copper double spiral staircase in CEBRA's Experimentarium
Black and white stairways splice and spiral through the Studio Libeskind-designed MO Museum of modern art in Vilnius, Lithuania. More about Skylights and stairways puncture Studio Libeskind's MO Museum in Lithuania
Shanghai-based studio ATAH's arts centre in the Chinese city of Shaoxing is a glazed cylinder intersected by a spiralling walkway that doubles as a stage. More about Stairs spiral around the perimeter of ATAH's glazed Heli-stage art space
Portuguese studio Promontorio has transformed a 1980s office building in Lisbon into a high-tech headquarters featuring a spiralling concrete staircase. More about Promontorio adds concrete spiral staircase to 1980s office building in Lisbon
Balint Alovits' photography series Time Machine features architectural staircases in Bauhaus and art deco-style buildings in Budapest, Hungary. More about "Infinite" spiralling staircases in Budapest captured in photography by Balint Alovits
Danish studio CEBRA has redesigned a science centre in Copenhagen, adding a shimmering copper-clad staircase that represents the structure of a DNA strand. More about Copenhagen's Experimentarium features a helical staircase and cladding based on fluid dynamics
A concrete staircase spirals between the austere concrete floors of this house designed by Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates for a seaside spot in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture. More about Chunky concrete staircase spirals through House in Akitsu by Kazunori Fujimoto
Hidden behind a bookcase in a secret room, a fireman's pole offers a fast escape route from the top floor of this Berlin home by local studio NOWlab (+ slideshow). More about Berlin apartment by NOWlab features a spiral staircase and a fireman's pole
Graduate shows 2015: a pair of Royal College of Art graduates have created a new way to climb trees – strapping steps around the trunk to form a spiral staircase up to out-of-reach branches. More about CanopyStair is a spiral staircase that straps around any tree trunk
This McDonald's restaurant featuring a perforated golden facade and a grand spiral staircase was designed by Dutch firm Mei Architects to replace "the ugliest building in Rotterdam" (+ slideshow). More about McDonald's restaurant by Mei Architects boasts a golden facade and a spiral staircase
Bored with the dismal view from the office window, Polish studio Zalewski Architecture envisioned a grassy suspended walkway that would allow them to take a stroll without leaving the building. More about Zalewski Architecture imagines spiral walkway strung between high-rise buildings