A gradual refinement The steel rail is an artifact whose form has been carefully optimized. This gradual refinement of the design was done not by a single brilliant engineer but by more than a century of industrial evolution. The rail was never meant to be an object of beauty, but its cross section has all the elegance of fine typography. Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape elegancetypographytransportationevolutionchange
Anatomical Drawings of Staircase Spaces A Book by Tomoyuki Tanaka ShibuyaDetailPlatformsSpiralDescent+3 More Back to the Drawing BoardSection-perspective drawingKengo Kuma's sketches architecturedrawingtransportationart
Platforms Show image 0 Show image 1 Original by Tanaka, and my own digital tracing. Tablets have caught up