Heatherwick said he was influenced by images of Indian stepwells, which are made from hundreds of flights of stairs stretching into the ground. "An idea emerged to use flights of stairs as ...

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to climb around M.C. Escher’s never ending staircase ... dRMM founder Alex de Rijke told Dezeen that “stairs are always the most interesting ...

Madeleine Thien plays with these concepts in her ambitious, elliptical novel “The Book of Records,” which is Escherian in spirit, flattening our understanding of time and human connection in all the ...

Made up of a series of 15 interlocking staircases that veer right and left, the 25-foot-tall structure looks like it stepped right out of an M.C. Escher drawing ... landed on stairs as their ...

Two hands drawing themselves into existence. Interlocking birds that morph into fish, and back again. Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher’s iconic, trippy images have mesmerized ...

ESCHER might have gawped. But this labyrinthine nest of stairs is no impossible construction. Between AD 600 and 1850, more than 3000 step wells were dug, by hand, in the Indian provinces of ...

Chatbots and image generators, newly on the rise, have sparked our imaginations—and our fears. As artificial-intelligence machines sharpen their ability to translate written prompts into images ...

In the bizarre realm of quantum physics, the impossible stairs depicted in M.C. Escher's 1960 lithograph, Ascending and Descending, may take on new resonance. In the picture, a continuous ...