Converging is sexy, but the second I go to commit, Gallery is like, why don't you come peek under my staircase.
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Newel feels the most medieval to me, as it's what has been used in every cathedral spire I've visited, but balustrade is so cool
Balaustrade gives me this impression...
A picture really is worth a thousand words. Nailed my exact impression haha
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Balustrade.
Balustrade gang rise up!
Obviously correct choice
Spiral or Newel. They FEEL so Medieval.
Gallery, converging, or balustrade, but you can't make me choose, I can't choose just one.
There's no debate, spiral counter-clockwise is both aesthetically pleasing and offers the best defense against sword-bearing invaders.
Fuck, these are all bangers.
If I rememeber, I'll edit after further deliberation.
Toss up between converging and balustrade.
I feel like I just leveled up my descriptive abilities for RPG DMing purposes.
Mine is definitely spiral
Why spiral?
It just looks like a fairytale
I really can’t choose, I love them all equally.
Earlier that day: "I don't care for Single Run".
I felt like 'spiral', easily when opening the post.
Yet somehow it became much more complicated than I envisioned.
Newels so knights couldn't have their sworn in the best hand going upwards (you'd have to use the left hand, and that was something knights just wouldn't do, it meant dying)
Obviously quarter turn wins
So understated, so elegant.
The only correct answer, goat.
So true. Arcade is a close second but it just doesn't have that je ne sais quoi.
Nevel obviously. Especially becaude it always turns to the right so it's easier to fight downwards with the sword in your right hand then upwards.
Yeah! Take that, lefty scum!
Gotta be gallery unless you're under attack, then it's newel all the way
Newel because I could never walk on one not thinking about clearing corners with my bow looking for goblins
I was going to say Newel because I'm right-handed, and I bet it would be easier for right-handers to defend going down rather than attackers going up using a sword. I might be overthinking it though.
And here I was expecting everyone else to say semi-circular too. Humble and simple.
Arcade for outside, converging for the main entrance hall, and gallery for everywhere else inside
Balustrade and Converging
Spiral!!!
Right!?
No, spirals go left
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Newel, although climbing Ulm 20 years ago scarred my psyche
No love for the semi-circular?
This makes me feel something I've never felt before. Damn. Thank you.
Gotta respect the spiral. Not once have I used a staircase from which you can see the bottom floor and not had intrusive thoughts about dropping something or myself.
Quarter turn is the type used on cs_italy, right?
Staircases are so cool! My personal favorite thing to photograph in old buildings is doors.
I fear that the spiral has a consistent radius, and is therefore a "helical staircase".
I guess that's why we call helicopters helicopters and not spiracopters. But in many medieval buildings, whose stone walls are normally thicker at the base and get thinner toward the top, the stairwell cavity would get wider as it went up, making the stairs a spiral.
That sounds pretty convincing to me. I vote spiral.
Spiral, no contest
Go big or go home.
Spiral... without the handrails.