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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)

February 12, 2014April 23, 2016

Through a Glass, Divinely (stained glass at railway stations)

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February 5, 2014June 4, 2016

Concrete Cathedrals (Cockfosters and Uxbridge London Underground stations, London, UK)

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January 29, 2014June 4, 2016

Material of Memory (transport moquettes of Britain)

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January 22, 2014June 15, 2016

Mountain High Style (Hungerburgbahn, Innsbruck, Austria)

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January 15, 2014June 15, 2016

Like Father, Like Son (the transport paintings of Camille and Lucien Pissarro)

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January 8, 2014September 15, 2015

An Airline Terminal in the City Centre (Empire Air Terminal, London, UK)

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January 1, 2014September 15, 2015

Victorian Art Deco (Victoria Coach Station, London, UK)

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December 18, 2013September 15, 2015

Desire Lines (EIT/DfT/HS2 RIBA Competition for aesthetic railway overhead line structures)

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December 18, 2013September 15, 2015

An Art Gallery in Your Pocket (timetable covers, Tandem Design, UK)

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December 11, 2013September 15, 2015

Pie in the Sky (the Emirates Air Line, London, UK)

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December 4, 2013June 15, 2016

When Two Tiles go to War (Bechmann’s Nord-Sud stations, Paris, France)

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November 27, 2013June 15, 2016

Skyline, Passion, Union Terminal (Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)

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November 20, 2013October 21, 2015

Obscure Objects of Transport Beauty: third rail insulator pot

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November 13, 2013June 15, 2016

The Ribbon that Came out of the Pod (Bus Station, Vauxhall Cross, London, UK / lost beauty #5: Vauxhall Pod)

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November 6, 2013June 15, 2016

Glaze Amaze (tiled railway maps of the UK)

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October 30, 2013August 15, 2015

Fly Me to the Swoon (Madrid Barajas Airport Terminal 4, Madrid, Spain)

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October 23, 2013August 15, 2015

The Rainbow Way (Rainbows in Transport)

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October 16, 2013August 15, 2015

The Gate and The Good (Southampton Dock Gates, Southampton, UK)

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October 9, 2013August 13, 2015

The Green Agenda (Leslie Green Underground stations, London, 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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September 18, 2013August 13, 2015

Map Me Gorgeous (Bus and Train Maps, Best Impressions, UK)

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September 11, 2013January 1, 2017

Gimme Stylish Shelter (Art Deco Tram Shelters, UK)

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September 4, 2013August 13, 2015

The Many Lives of the Hogwarts Express (Transport from the World of Harry Potter)

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August 28, 2013August 13, 2015

Close Encounters of the Forth Kind (Forth Bridge, Queensferry, UK)

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August 21, 2013August 13, 2015

Spin me Right Round (Red Hill filling station, Leicestershire, UK)

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August 14, 2013April 23, 2016

Summer Special: the Ninky Nonk train (In the Night Garden, CBeebies, UK)

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August 7, 2013August 13, 2015

Iron Flowers (Guimard’s Métro Entrances, Paris, France)

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