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The Beauty of Transport

Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Part travelogue, part history, all transport (but sometimes tangentially so)

Category: USA

May 13, 2020May 16, 2020

Braniff International and The End of the Plain Plane

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March 20, 2019March 26, 2019

We Live and Die by Pretty Lies (Lost Beauties of Rail, Road and Air)

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October 3, 2018September 30, 2018

Location, location, location (Buffalo Central Terminal, Buffalo (NY), USA)

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September 19, 2018September 19, 2018

Going Up (Michigan Central Station, Detroit (MI), USA)

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July 25, 2018July 25, 2018

White on Black and Read All Over: New York City Subway Signage and Other Design Highlights (New York (NY), USA)

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July 11, 2018July 7, 2018

Hypercube (Fulton Center, New York (NY), USA)

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June 13, 2018June 12, 2018

We’re S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G. (The Oculus, New York (NY), USA)

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May 30, 2018May 23, 2018

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken (NJ), USA)

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May 16, 2018May 11, 2018

Tunnel Visions

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June 21, 2017June 17, 2017

Taking the Sea Air (Marine Air Terminal, La Guardia Airport, New York (NY), USA)

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May 3, 2017May 17, 2017

House of the Rising Sun (Helios House, Los Angeles (CA), USA)

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February 15, 2017February 13, 2017

Highway/Art Intersection (Intersection Repairs, Portland (OR), USA)

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November 30, 2016January 15, 2017

The Truth, or Something Beautiful (on the confusion of public transport with tourism, history or character)

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June 15, 2016January 23, 2017

Closed Loop (City Hall station, New York (NY), USA)

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June 8, 2016January 23, 2017

Park Life (The High Line, New York (NY), USA)

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October 7, 2015September 27, 2015

Mile High Marvel (Union Station, Denver (Colorado), USA)

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September 16, 2015September 12, 2015

Type in the Fast Lane (FHWA Series typeface, USA)

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June 17, 2015August 23, 2015

The Horn Section (or, The Music of Trains)

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April 29, 2015August 27, 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: Railway Telegraph Insulators

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February 11, 2015September 3, 2015

The Great Hall of Aluminum Wonders (Newark Penn Station, New Jersey, USA)

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February 4, 2015September 3, 2015

Let Slip the Dogs, part 2 (Surviving Greyhound Terminals of W S Arrasmith, USA)

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January 28, 2015September 3, 2015

Let Slip the Dogs, part 1 (Surviving Greyhound Terminals of W S Arrasmith, USA)

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November 5, 2014December 24, 2015

Riding the Wave (transit shelters, San Francisco, USA)

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October 29, 2014December 24, 2015

Frank Lloyd Wright Hits the Gas (filling stations, Cloquet (MN) and Buffalo (NY), USA)

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October 1, 2014October 28, 2015

Lost Beauty #8: The Palace of the Railroads (Pennsylvania Station, New York (NY), USA)

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September 3, 2014October 28, 2015

Wicked Wild West: the Grand Canyon’s Failed Railroads (Grand Canyon (AZ), USA)

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August 27, 2014October 28, 2015

Grand Design (Grand Canyon railroad depot, Grand Canyon (AZ), USA)

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