2024-12-22T06:49:16-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/135884542/new-photo-book-documents-the-beautifully-outlandish-architecture-of-soviet-bus-stops Alexander Walter 2015-09-04T14:46:00-04:00 >2015-09-04T15:34:35-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7e/7eg13qg23wganm10.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In western Europe, the bus stop is the most humble of building types, a meanly utilitarian structure that adds little or nothing to the roadside. But in the old Soviet empire, from the shores of the Black Sea to the Kazakh steppe, the norm is &ldquo;wild going on savage&rdquo;, as Jonathan Meades writes in a beautiful new photobook featuring 159 bus stops, each illuminating &ldquo;the Soviet empire&rsquo;s taste for the utterly fantastical&rdquo;.</p></em><br /><br /><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/aq/aqukdupr1p5c1bcf.jpg"></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/hl/hlfzfmg5nadobhkj.jpg"></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/1p/1pbu4oldkwq8czot.jpg"></p><p>Find more of these beauties photographed by Christopher Herwig for the new book <em>Soviet Bus Stops</em>&nbsp;over at <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/02/soviet-superpower-why-russia-has-the-worlds-most-beautiful-bus-stops" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>The Guardian</em></a>.</p><p>Related stories on Archinect:</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/108252788/community-bus-stops-transform-brazil" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Community Bus Stops Transform Brazil</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/85996105/world-class-architects-design-bus-stops-in-austria" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World Class Architects Design Bus Stops in Austria</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/52606703/high-tech-bus-stop-in-paris-by-patrick-jouin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">High Tech Bus Stop in Paris by Patrick Jouin</a></li></ul>