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About This Blog | The Beauty of Transport
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The Beauty of Transport. Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Publishing weekly at 1700 UK time. What’s This Blog About? When is it Published? Who’s This Blog by? My name’s Daniel Wright, and I’m a freelance transport writer. More details in the “About me” section, and contact details in the “contact the author” section. Do You Do Talks? Why, now you come to mention it, there is a. The Beauty of Transport. How Did All This Begin? Oh, seriously. I see...
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Streets Ahead, Inside (Nils Ericson Terminal, Gothenburg, Sweden) | The Beauty of Transport
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The Beauty of Transport. Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Publishing weekly at 1700 UK time. Streets Ahead, Inside (Nils Ericson Terminal, Gothenburg, Sweden). In an ideal world, all bus or coach stations would be as good as the Nils Ericson Terminal in Gothenburg. Actually, in an ideal world, all bus or coach stations would. There’s an obvious immediate similarity with Grimshaw’s Waterloo International. There’s a lot going on in here, both in ...
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Space Station (El Intercambiador de Transportes de La Laguna, San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain) | The Beauty of Transport
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The Beauty of Transport. Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Publishing weekly at 1700 UK time. Space Station (El Intercambiador de Transportes de La Laguna, San Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain). I sat down to write this article on the second official day of the British summer. As such, I looked out from my desk to see leaden skies and hear the hissing of the summer rain. At that point I decided it was time. The Beauty of Transport. Unfortunately, despite...
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The Bridge (Øresund Link, Denmark/Sweden) | The Beauty of Transport
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The Beauty of Transport. Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Publishing weekly at 1700 UK time. The Bridge (Øresund Link, Denmark/Sweden). There are many bridges in the Danish city of Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö. But there is only one Bridge. If the Bridge is mentioned in either city, everyone knows precisely which one is being referred to. It requires no further elaboration. It’s this one, the Øresund Bridge:. Via this flickr page. Thanks ...
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Lost Beauty #9: Hardwick’s Hall (the old Euston station, London, UK) | The Beauty of Transport
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The Beauty of Transport. Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Publishing weekly at 1700 UK time. Lost Beauty #9: Hardwick’s Hall (the old Euston station, London, UK). The Euston Arch in 1896. The waiting cabs are very Sherlock Holmes, aren’t they? See page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. The Euston Arch dated back to the very birth of the railway industry, in the first half of the 19. The Great Hall in 1905. Although the structure ...
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White-painted Wonders (Streamline Moderne bus shelters, England) | The Beauty of Transport
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The Beauty of Transport. Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Publishing weekly at 1700 UK time. White-painted Wonders (Streamline Moderne bus shelters, England). It’s good news for lovers of geometric white buildings this week as we return to the topic of Art Deco / Streamline Moderne / Modernist (take your pick of your preferred term) transport shelters. In previous entries we’ve looked at Art Deco tram shelters. Via this flickr page. Google Maps says ...
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Come in to my Webb (Webb Bridge, Melbourne, Australia) | The Beauty of Transport
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The Beauty of Transport. Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Publishing weekly at 1700 UK time. Come in to my Webb (Webb Bridge, Melbourne, Australia). What do you do with a nearly-new railway bridge when the rail link it carries closes just six years after it was opened? Well, in the case of the city of Melbourne, Australia, you convert it into a visually exciting piece of landmark cycle/pedestrian infrastructure. Working with artist Robert Owen. Webb ...
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Claude Monet: Railway Enthusiast | The Beauty of Transport
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The Beauty of Transport. Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Publishing weekly at 1700 UK time. Claude Monet: Railway Enthusiast. Water Lilies. Claude Monet (1919). In the public domain, via this WikiArt page. The water lily paintings, however, came at the end of Monet’s long career. Before that, like many Impressionist painters (as we’ve seen here. Monet seems destined to have been an artist. He went to school with Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)...
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The Horn Section (or, The Music of Trains) | The Beauty of Transport
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The Beauty of Transport. Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Publishing weekly at 1700 UK time. The Horn Section (or, The Music of Trains). Here’s the sheet music:. And if you don’t have a piano easily to hand, here’s what it sounds like:. The question is…where are you? I’m prepared to bet that a good majority of people hearing this piece of ‘music’ will know exactly where they are: a railroad crossing in the United States of America. Indeed, TV series.
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See More Photos | The Beauty of Transport
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The Beauty of Transport. Transport design, transport architecture, and transport's influence on art and culture. Publishing weekly at 1700 UK time. I take quite a few photos for. The Beauty of Transport. Not all of which I have space to include in blog entries. Http:/ www.flickr.com/photos/danielhwright/sets/. There are also a fair few photos of trains and buses and other bits and bobs, on the basis that you never know who might be interested in them. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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