Hong Kong’s urban landscape is a mix of top-down planning and bottom-up development, one in which smaller, more organic and eccentric structures are often overshadowed by its numerous skyscrapers.

To encourage Bloomberg's Hong Kong employees to interact more, architecture studio Neri&Hu has given them a staircase with generous landings, seating areas and strategically positioned windows.

Perched atop several flights of concrete stairs ... not an anomaly in Hong Kong. American photographer Austin Bell estimates that the city has more outdoor courts than even New York or Los ...

“The Cascade” by Edge Design Institute 2007, Central Hong Kong. More than just pure artistic design, the repurposed staircase aims to change the face of utilitarian commercial areas by ...

The popular video ‘The Incline’, showing a brutal stair climb in Colorado, got the Hong Kong community talking. What is our answer to the famous set of stairs? The set in Manitou Springs ...

"The negative space shows something about the past that people often don't know about," Lai says, adding that there are other "phantom staircases" like this scattered across urban Hong Kong.

The media giant previously had a "sculpturally iconic" spiral staircase connecting the three floors of its Hong Kong headquarters. But the company decided it would be better to swap this for ...