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A Tiny Austrian Town Has the Coolest Bus Shelters (2014)
- HarryHirsch 8y agoJust look at the first fine specimen already. No protection against rain and wind, but a fine view of the landscape. Good thing the village sits in the rain shadow of the Alps!
- em-bee 8y agoyeah, that one had me wonder too. but i suppose before that there was nothing. and maybe the raised platform makes it easier to spot the bus in a distance
- leg100 8y agoI prefer the home comforts of the Unst bus shelter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unst_Bus_Shelter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unst_Bus_Shelter
- lucidstack 8y agoThat is one of the most wholesome things I’ve ever read, thank you!
- cauldron 8y agoLooks good, but I'm afraid it's generally uncomfortable to sit on.
- lb1lf 8y agoHere's one of my favourites[1] - in Bjørnevatn, (very) close to Norway's border with Russia on some 70 degrees of latitude. It is a shovel from a heavy excavator used in a nearby mine; offers protection from the elements as well as anything except all-out nuclear war. Weighs in at 18,000kg/40,000lbs. [1] https://www.ifinnmark.no/ost-finnmark/norges-toffeste-busskur/s/1-49-7023005 https://www.ifinnmark.no/ost-finnmark/norges-toffeste-bussku...
- CapitalistCartr 8y agoIf the burst is not from the front, you'll be fine up to an overpressure of around 10psi, at which point the anchors will probably fail.
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- cyberferret 8y agoSome of these may be really arty, but IMO a functional bus shelter need to have: * Protection from weather (both sun and rain) * Protection from wind * Some sort of privacy or seclusion area for women or children who have to wait alone * Comfortable seating for long waits * Space to put your bags or shopping without having to have them on the ground. * Provide a clear view of approaching buses Amazing how many architectural 'designs' miss some of these simple elements. The only thing the simple concrete bus shelters in MY small Australian town have to distinguish them is paintings by local school children and artists [0], but at least they meet most of the above criteria. [0] - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-08/darwin-bus-stops-painted-outreach-project-vandalism/7492366 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-08/darwin-bus-stops-pain...
- gonzo41 8y agoIn Canberra the older Action bus shelters were concrete tubes They were pretty barren but in the cold wind of winter it was great. Looking at the photo's in the article I kept thinking, it snows there, won't they be so cold and freezing.
- sokoloff 8y ago> Some sort of privacy or seclusion area for women or children who have to wait alone I’m neither of those things, but if the issue is personal safety, wouldn’t a secluded and private area be worse?
- thefifthsetpin 8y agoI'm similarly baffled by these ideas. They seem like bad ideas for so many reasons. 1. The point you make. 2. Any man or masculine-looking woman who winds up there (either accidentally or as the result of the other areas filling up) will be automatically viewed as a threat. 3. They're the western equivalent of burkas in that they promote the idea that men are uncontrollable beings and that the onus is on women to insulate themselves from us. (Though obviously they're far less extreme than a burka.) 4. A woman who can't be there finds herself alone in a sea of men, which seems like an extreme version of the situation they're trying to avoid.
- julienreszka 8y ago"unusual" isn't necessarily synonym of "cool". Looks like more dehumanizing postmodern stuff, also called : CANCER
- dang 8y agoIf you continue to post unsubstantive and/or inflammatory comments to Hacker News, we will ban you again.
- julienreszka 8y agoWhat's the problem with this comment? Why do you believe this is unsubstantive or inflammatory? I studied architecture for 4 years so I know how to recognize postmodern architecture and that is it. It's brutalizing people's environment all over the World.
- dang 8y agoThe issue isn't postmodern architecture, it's unsubstantive HN comments. We're looking for thoughtful discussion here, not shallow swipes. Just hurling pejoratives ("dehumanizing", "cancer") doesn't count.
- julienreszka 8y agoI don't know what are hurling pejoratives. First time I hear this. I didn't know that pejoratives don't have a place in a thoughtful discussion. Maybe you should take a break? Take some vacation? Go some place where you could relax? If using simple words like dehumanizing and cancer has not place in a conversation maybe it's you that should take some time off this website.
- justtopost 8y agoIts public art, but only a few are remotely functional as 'shelters', and only cool as in freezing waiting for the bus. I like modern, even bauhaus and brutalist style, but these are just sketches, built. Architechure without consideration for the human using it is arguably immoral. But thats a whole conversation in itself.
- pixl97 8y agoHell, the place I was at made 'immoral' bus stops. They were tired of homeless sheltering in them, so they barely have any protection from sun and rain. Too bad it gets 110F in the summer.
- dingoegret 8y agoThe essence of HN and basically every other aggregate news forum Some European country: look and this cute thing they have/do! China/MidEast/Russia: look at this bad thing aweful aweful uhh hUmAN rIgHtS uhh deemockreeecy Africa/South America: look at these poor people
- weinzierl 8y agoThe coolest bus shelters are in Dubai - they have air conditioning. They look cool too. http://manonthelam.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Air-conditioned-bus-stop-Dubai-UAE.jpg http://manonthelam.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Air-condit...
- malandrew 8y agoThe biggest problem here is that they lack discoverability. You walk to bus stops which means they need to be recognizable and discoverable. If every one of them looks different, you need to memorize how all of them look to be able to spot them at a distance. This current design is only effective for residents that us the same couple of bus stops every day. For visitors, it's not very useful. Form has superseded function here.
- xanipher 8y agoThe bus stops are for the surroundings of Krumbach, which probably means about one per village. I doubt it will be hard to discover them, especially because there are still signs for the buses there.
- jgamman 8y agomaybe the point is not to be overly functional but some sort of art trail that people hop on/hop off normal PT in between cafes and galleries etc. for a small town, even a few hundred tourists per month on weekends can make a huge difference to the economy. maybe someone else who knows the area could comment on the route.
- mitchbob 8y agoThere are two photo books by Christopher Herwig of some amazing Soviet bus stops: http://fuel-design.com/publishing/soviet-bus-stops/ http://fuel-design.com/publishing/soviet-bus-stops/ http://fuel-design.com/publishing/soviet-bus-stops-volume-ii/ http://fuel-design.com/publishing/soviet-bus-stops-volume-ii...