The Queen’s House in Greenwich (centre building in my previous shot 'Greenwich Prime Meridian'), designed and built by Inigo Jones, was completed in 1635. It was his first major commission after returning from his 1613–1615 grand tour of Italy where he studied Roman, Renaissance and Palladian architecture. The Queen's House is noted as being England's first classical building and is famous for two features, the Great Hall and the Tulip Staircase.
The Tulip Staircase was an unusual feature during this period and the first of its kind in Britain. It is Britain's first geometric and unsupported staircase based on a design concept invented by the mason Nicholas Stone.
The staircase is made of ornate wrought iron with each tread cantilevered from the wall and supported by the step below. Each step is interlocked along the bottom of the riser. Jones found inspiration for the staircase, and the glass lantern above, from Palladio's Carita Monastery, where he noted that the staircases with a void in the centre "succeed very well because they can have light from above".
View from the bottom of the staircase looking up towards the lantern. To take the photograph, I lay on the floor with my head at the centre of the floor mosaic.
Sony A7iv + Sony GM 24-70mm f2.8 II
EXIF: ISO 3200, f13, 1/30 s, @24mm
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