The phrase "around a spiral" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe movement or positioning in relation to a spiral shape or pattern.
Example: "The leaves were arranged around a spiral staircase, creating a beautiful visual effect."
Alternatives: "in a spiral pattern" or "encircling a spiral".
The big bright room sits on a wall of reinforced concrete that wraps around a spiral staircase, the downstairs bathroom and the master and guest bedrooms.
They can even stand on a disc and tilt their bodies in different directions to make a metal ball encased inside it move around a spiral groove.
The building consists of identical apartment modules which rotate around a spiral axis at designated times to give all its residents equal access to views.
The core feature is a curriculum "based on world cultures, arranged chronologically around a spiral with cultural history at the core, but integrated with other subjects," said Michele Claeys, the director of academic affairs.
Are college admissions directors impressed by the lofty goal of creating a "global classroom" with a curriculum based on world cultures arranged chronologically around a spiral that integrates subjects like math and science into its core?
When Takamitsu Azuma moved to Tokyo with his family in the 1960s, he could only afford a miniature 20 sq m triangular plot, so decided to stack all of the rooms in his house on top of each other in a startling concrete tower, the interior arranged in one continuous space around a spiral staircase.
"For the first time in years, the spiral of failure has been turned around into a spiral of success," Mr. Mchawi said.
The first light stage, which was finished in 1999, was humble, employing a two-hundred-and-fifty-watt spotlight pulled around in a spiral by a rope.
Levels closer to the street shift back and forth to create landscaped terraces and canopies overlooking an adjacent park while further up the building, floors slide around in a spiral to create terraces, outdoor spaces, and viewing platforms for adjoining residential units.
While the 13-inch Air is like carrying around a standard spiral notebook (you know, the kind with paper that we used to use in school way back when), and the 11-inch Air is not that much different from carrying around a tablet, the 15-inch Retina Pro feels a bit like carrying around a surfboard by comparison.
