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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: car travel

October 12, 2022November 7, 2022

My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks (Worcestershire Parkway, Worcestershire, UK)

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October 31, 2018November 2, 2018

Arts & Crafts, Shelters & Bridges & Memorials (the Transport Architecture of Edwin Lutyens)

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August 22, 2018August 21, 2018

Skin of Glass: The Transport Architecture and Influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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May 16, 2018May 11, 2018

Tunnel Visions

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April 25, 2018April 23, 2018

Triangle (Bus station, Schaan, Liechenstein)

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February 28, 2018March 1, 2018

This Stride Into Our Solitude (Humber Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire / North Lincolnshire, UK)

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May 31, 2017May 25, 2017

Absolute Block: the Transport Art of Gail Brodholt

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May 3, 2017May 17, 2017

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

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March 8, 2017February 26, 2017

Shaft! 9 – Shaft Goes Daan the East End (Rotherhithe Tunnel, London, UK)

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February 15, 2017February 13, 2017

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

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February 8, 2017January 30, 2017

Shaft! 8 – Shaft on the Tyne is All Mine (Tyne Tunnel ventilation shaft buildings)

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December 14, 2016December 19, 2016

A Station Fit for a King (Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, UK)

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December 7, 2016January 15, 2017

In Case of Emergency, Open Box (AA and RAC telephone boxes, UK)

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August 24, 2016August 22, 2016

Premium Unleaded Style (Fina 2010 filling stations by Samyn and Partners, Belgium and The Netherlands)

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July 20, 2016July 12, 2016

Sparkling Diamonds (Welbeck Street multi-storey car park, London, UK)

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July 13, 2016June 29, 2016

Pump It Up: the Lost Art of Petrol Pump Style (Manor Road Garage, East Preston, UK)

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March 16, 2016March 5, 2016

Beautiful Robots, Dancing Alone (Millau Viaduct, France)

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February 24, 2016February 7, 2016

Parasol Paraíso (Repsol filling stations, Spain and Portugal)

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December 16, 2015December 11, 2017

Big Blue (Tees Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough, UK)

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September 16, 2015September 12, 2015

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

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July 15, 2015August 25, 2015

The Bridge (Øresund Link, Denmark/Sweden)

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April 1, 2015August 27, 2015

SOS Mr Tracy, the Transport World is Falling (Transport from the World of Thunderbirds)

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December 3, 2014October 26, 2019

Sign Languages (Transport and Ministry typefaces, UK)

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November 19, 2014December 24, 2015

Roll Up! (The transport songs of The Beatles)

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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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February 26, 2014October 14, 2015

Shaft! 4 – Shaft at the Seaside (Carlisle Parade underground car park, Hastings, UK)

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September 25, 2013August 26, 2015

The Saving of a Brutal Bus Behemoth (Preston Central Bus Station and Car Park, Preston, UK)

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