The Red Stairs, Redux

I agree with Doug's comment yesterday that there was something off with my compostion of the first red stair image I posted. Yesterday's image is the original one I processed but my sister wanted a print so I thought I would crop it to a size she could easily frame but I think the stairs in the center of the image is not the best composition and then cropping some of the height did not help. Here are a few more versions but these make me wonder if keeping another side of the building in the frame makes it too busy and takes some of the attention away from the stairs which were what originally drew me to take the shots. Also, I think I had to shoot from an angle because I do not have a wide-angle lens that will let me stand across the street and get much of the building in the frame...but if I get back over there it deserves another attempt.

The Red Stairs

Another image from a while back, 2006. I was still taking film classes and learning to use my Nikon D70 and went downtown to shoot with a friend. I am not sure why I did not photograph this building directly head-on instead of at an angle, but all of my shots are like this although some were horizontal and included the left side of the building. Someone who knows Houston may know what this building is, but I do not --- apartments? Offices? I don't think it is a hotel. The stairs really are a vibrant red.

Camera info: Nikon D70, 18 - 70 kit lens at f4.5 and 1/50th, ISO 200, auto whitebalance, jpg.
Post processing: cropped and corrected for perspective distortion, cloned in missing bricks and removed bright white labels on doors, ran PopSickle for details, merged and changed the blending mode to Vivid Light at 40% opacity, duplicated again in Multiply at 40% opacity, darkened stairs with Touch of Dark action, Hue/Sat layer to reduce red to tone down the vibrancy of the stairs.