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stairwell

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stairwell
a vertical shaft or opening that contains a staircase

stairwell [′ster‚wel]
(building construction)
A vertical compartment that extends through a building to hold a stairway.


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The new Science and Technology Magnet High School utilizes a structural steel design with an exterior curtain wall system and has exterior stairwells located on three of the four corners.
Rivas and Rothwell allegedly got into an argument on a stairwell landing outside their hotel room.
With the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising as the building's primary tenant, Bisou Bisou co-owner Marc Bohbot said he and wife Michelle were as much attracted to potential creative synergies of relocating their corporate headquarters to the seventh floor as they were enchanted by the historic building's open spiral stairwells and brass mail drops.
 
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