Amsterdam-based firm NEXT Architects has created a spiraling sculptural staircase titled The Elastic Perspective that seemingly leads to nowhere, but in fact provides a lookout point with panoramic views. The looping oxidized-steel structure is located in an industrial precinct, near to railway tracks, sitting prominently on a grassy hillside on the outskirts of Rotterdam, appears to be endless but instead leads at its highest point to an unhindered view of the city’s skyline in the distance…

Amsterdam-based firm NEXT Architects has created a spiraling sculptural staircase titled The Elastic Perspective that seemingly leads to nowhere, but in fact provides a lookout point with panoramic views. The looping oxidized-steel structure is located in an industrial precinct, near to railway tracks, sitting prominently on a grassy hillside on the outskirts of Rotterdam, appears to be endless but instead leads at its highest point to an unhindered view of the city’s skyline in the distance…