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  1. Atlas #2 · The island's roads

    A Stair at Mavigol That Leads Back Where It Started

    18 October 2026 · 8 min read

    At Mavigol, a stair 7.8 metres long leaves a stone road and comes back to the very spot it left. Built exactly as recorded, it piles up against the kerb.

  2. Atlas #3

    Who Built the Rainbow Gate?

    18 October 2026 · 5 min read

    The Rainbow Gate, the Black Shard, the Hundred Arches and the Giants of the Pulpit: four colossal monuments, measured. Who made them, no one can say.

  3. Atlas #6

    Forty-Five Metres Over the Rainbow Gate

    18 October 2026 · 10 min read

    Forty-five metres over the Rainbow Gate's crown, out of a slot canyon into a low sun, beside the Hundred Arches to the Black Shard: three flights planned whole.