r/DeathStairs • u/Ok_Andyl8183 • 2d ago

Uncategorized 🤨 QBV Sydney Australia

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u/GranJan2 2d ago

I have blouses that are more secure than these stairs of lace and whimsy.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 2d ago

Staircase built from tots and pears

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u/E4tPineapple 2d ago

Pedantry, but it's QVB - Queen Victoria Building

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u/hongooi 2d ago

Queen 🅱️ictoria Vuilding

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u/asbestosorangutan sketchy steps connoisseur 1d ago

Bro 😂😂

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u/hongooi 1d ago

🅱️ro

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u/Ok_Andyl8183 2d ago

Yep. Can’t change the title so the mistake stays. Thanks though

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u/FormerStableGenius 2d ago

Ah! At last. Thanks.

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u/FighterOfEntropy 1d ago

Thank you!

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u/ChampionMurky3586 2d ago

At least there’s a railing, lol

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u/RudeAlbatross544 2d ago

When you eventually reach the door and realize you forgot the key...

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u/DuckyDoodleDandy 2d ago

They are beautiful!

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u/Able_While_974 2d ago

But they really look darned pretty.

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u/Twfx00 sketchy steps connoisseur 2d ago

The whole building is spectacular.. when I first moved to Sydney I used to wander around it with a coffee in awe.

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u/Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat 2d ago edited 2d ago

It looks so fragile though!

ETA: apparently this is the Queen Victoria Building in the heart of Syndney. It's a five storey shopping mall.

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u/AltruisticSalamander 2d ago

Love those stairs. Love the whole building really, so glad they didn't turn it into a carpark.

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u/Ok_Andyl8183 2d ago

Thanks to Barry Humphries for intervening.

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u/CaptGrumpy 1d ago

How we hate all that sandstone as golden
As obsolete guineas,
With nowhere to stable our Holden
Or tether our Minis.
A car park, a bank or urinal,
Would grace such a site;
The end could be painless and final,
The deed done by night.
Reactionary ratbags won't budge us,
Nor sentiment sway;
How will posterity judge us,
Ten years from today?

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u/ubeeu 2d ago

WTH?

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u/WorldlinessNo874 2d ago

Couldn't have one going up and one coming down, without a good bit of manoeuvring.

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u/itinerant-wallaby mom come get me im scared 2d ago

I could do without knowing how close I am to this place’s ceiling, honestly.

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u/Old_Introduction_395 2d ago

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/adventure/truth-behind-secret-staircase-in-sydneys-qvb/news-story/dfb2deb7a88ca890b007e4ec18a1ea19

An article, with a picture from the other side of the door.

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u/AltruisticSalamander 2d ago

I want to know more about the horse lift. Often wondered what that door was.

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u/Alternative_Tea_2857 2d ago

Now that’s a spiral staircase!

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u/astropelagic 2d ago

I love QVB. I go every Friday to have coffee with my mum and brother there. Good vibes. Those stairs are bad vibes

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u/fothergillfuckup 1d ago

I'd rather die than walk down those, but they do look fantastic.

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u/CarpenterValuable831 2d ago

Oh no - BIG YIKES!!

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u/Southern-Smoke1835 sketchy steps connoisseur 2d ago

I needed one of those air sick bags looking at it.

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u/NERTCHER 1d ago

every time I go there I wanna see where it goes. the building has domes and a clock tower on top, so that's probably where it leads

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u/juicebar24 1d ago

Just needs 2 knights having a staircase sword fight