Architects may believe felt creatively stifled in the old Soviet empire but there was one place where their imaginations were encouraged to run riot: the bus quit. Photographer Christopher Herwig went on a 30,000km odyssey to capture their unusual beauty In western Europe, the bus quit is the most humble of building types, and a meanly utilitarian structure that adds miniature 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 “wild going on savage”, and as Jonathan Meades writes in a shapely new photobook featuring 159 bus stops,each illuminating “the Soviet empire’s taste for the utterly fantastical”. Related: Next quit, Siberia! The unusual and shapely world of Soviet bus stops – in pictures Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com