Continuing our review of 2019, Lizzie Crook spotlights 10 of the best staircase designs from this year including concrete steps intended to attract Japanese spirits and stairs that double as a meeting space.

House in Ashiya, Japan, by Kazunori Fujimoto Architect & Associates
A spiral staircase contrasts with the sharp geometric form of this Japanese house, which was built by Kazunori Fujimoto Architects & Associates almost entirely out of concrete.
The structure forms the central feature of the minimal dwelling and is hoped to act as a yorishiro. In the Shinto religion, yorishiro is the name given to objects capable of attracting spirits.
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School Zarren, Belgium, by Felt
A chunky, pink concrete staircase sits at the centre of this school in Belgium, forming a connection between the building's two contrasting wings. Its pink finish continues in the floor plate above it, and also complements a set of sculptural, curving pink benches in the playground outside.
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Loft Diego, Brazil, by Arquitetura Nacional
Folded steel was used to created this sculptural black staircase, which sits at the heart of a duplex apartment in Brazil that was overhauled by Arquitetura Nacional.
The structure is suspended from the apartment's upper storey so that it doesn't touch the floor beneath it, and is designed to help make the dwelling a more "fluid space".
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