I'm stunned and thrilled each time I come across this project which was completed in 2000. It's a staircase meant to help move tourists from a parking lot up the hill to the historic old city of Toledo, Spain. Imagined as a like of slash zigzagging up the hillside, Martinez-Lapena-Torres Arquitectes series of stairs and escalators shows how inspired a potentially-dull bit of design can be. Photo 6 of 8 in Landscape of Infrastructure by Aaron Britt

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I'm stunned and thrilled each time I come across this project which was completed in 2000. It's a staircase meant to help move tourists from a parking lot up the hill to the historic old city of Toledo, Spain. Imagined as a like of slash zigzagging up the hillside, Martinez-Lapena-Torres Arquitectes series of stairs and escalators shows how inspired a potentially-dull bit of design can be.