papesch@mac.com: Although I find the stair itself beautiful, the group that collaborated on the design created a mostly-unusable space at the ground floor and compounded the less-than-sterling design solution (from a practical, functioning viewpoint) by making the visitor to the BSA space make the awkward trip to the bottom of the stair from either of the two entry points. Were the experience of the trip from those two entry points an interesting or inspiring one, one might concede that the entry to the point should be where it ended up. Given the feeling of a "left-over" room into which a stair has been plunked, I find the overall functioning to detract from the attractive stair. It would be worth (and worthy of the BSA as a group of professionals who value user feedback) to ask for and collect the thoughts and responses to the overall experience from visitors. Perhaps my reactions are unique, and should be ignored.