Creative and unusual bus stop designs that make the time you spend waiting for the bus a bit more bearable.
Curitiba Bus Stop
Futuristic public transport bus stop in Curitiba, Brazil.
Guarana Antarctica Bus Stop
Football goal posts were placed in bus shelters around Sao Paulo, Brazil to promote the World Cup.
Strawberry Bus Stop
Yummy strawberry bus stop from Japan.
Yosemite Falls Bus Stop
Beautiful Yosemite Falls trail bus stop is perfectly suited for the setting.
Hammock Bus Stop
Relax while you wait for the bus to arrive.
Air Conditioned Bus Stop
Fully enclosed bus stop with air conditioning in Dubai.
Casar de Caceres Bus Stop
This minimalist structure that looks like a single sheet of white concrete was designed by architect Justo García Rubío and located in Casar de Caceres, Spain.
Moroccan Style Bus Stop
No ordinary bus stop decorated by Iris Hynd in Cornwall, England.
Estonian Bus Stop
Beautiful bus stop design from Estonia.
Watermelon Bus Stop
Creative watermelon bus stop in Ishaya, Japan.
School Bus Bus Stop
Unusual “school bus” bus stop from Athens, Ga. The bus shelter is made from 3 old school buses.
Swing Bus Stop
Creative London bus stop by Bruno Taylor gives commuters a chance to have a little bit of playtime while they wait for the bus.
Vitra Bus Stop
Bus stop designed for the Vitra design museum in Germany.
Sheffield Bus Stop
Creative bus shelter with grass roof in Sheffield, England.
LED Bus Stop
Designed as part of the smart mobilities project, this bus stop was presented in Paris in 2008. Users waiting inside the bus stop could engage via a touch screen interface while pedestrians waiting outside could interact with a 6ft. custom LED display.
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Heh
Damn dubians always have to show how flash they are
May 1st, 2009
skateboard bearings guy
love the hammock and the swing, great idea. people at a bus stop always look all gloom and doom–how about a 4-5 person swing?
May 2nd, 2009
Chetan Haria
Amazing Ideas for Bus Stop. Love It
May 2nd, 2009
sunrainey
Like Swing Bus Stop, warm and practical, not frozen waiting!
May 2nd, 2009
Julie
Skateboard bearings guy that is the coolest idea EVER :D
Total glee on the faces of five bored businesspeople…
May 2nd, 2009
arthurbarbato
Bravo!
May 2nd, 2009
peraknowya
I think its wonderful that people are so creative…im not really one for taking the bus but what a clever idea, who would ever thought of sitting and waiting in a giant watermelon 8-)
May 2nd, 2009
hackme
really good idea. Poeple who are waiting for bus shouldn’t be bored :P
May 2nd, 2009
Lorraine
Love it! Makes waiting for a bus a bit more interesting, I think.
May 2nd, 2009
Sklep Zoologiczny
Casar de Caceres is a bus stop or some concert hall? ;)
May 2nd, 2009
anthony
i always loved that school bus-bus stop in Athens, drove by it everyday on the way to work
May 2nd, 2009
Sib
How about this one in Dordrecht, the Netherlands:
http://www.ad.nl/multimedia/archive/00206/schedel_206648h.jpg?service=fotoPopup
Or click the pictures at the bottom of this page:
http://www.thymenstolk.nl/2009/04/17/schedel-abri-leerpark-dordrecht/
May 2nd, 2009
Me
Lol, it is hilarious what Dubai will build. Giant sail-boat shaped skyscrapers with tennis courts on top, humongous artificial palm-shaped islands, and now air-conditioned bus stops.
May 2nd, 2009
faris!
funny :)
and very creative
yeadhi
May 2nd, 2009
zul
waw very impresif
May 2nd, 2009
Guilherme Freitas
Curitiba’s bus stop are more functional than futuristic. The idea is that you pay your fare when you get *in the bus stop*. That way, people get in the bus faster and the bus stays in the bus stop for a shorter time. It also allows one to easily take multiple buses, as long as you do not leave the bus stop. Moreover, winters in Curitiba are pretty cold, with a chilly wind, and the bus stop protects the passengers from the weather.
May 3rd, 2009
raza
this is outstanding !
May 3rd, 2009
khafidl khafidi
nice posting! ^0^
May 3rd, 2009
Biz
Unusual bus stations indeed. I like the strawberry bust station the most.
May 3rd, 2009
musti
that bus stops are awesome :P
May 3rd, 2009
Tukang Nggame
just wanna to say UNIQUE
really inspired…
May 3rd, 2009
Joel S
These gr8 designs reflect the wisdom that mankind was endowed with by their all powerful Creator and that really disproves the theory of evolution. Mankind can think and design unlike animals which use instinct…lovely!
May 3rd, 2009
Huh?
I think they deserve an air conditioned bus stop after all those years of poverty and desert weather. W00t for cold air!
May 3rd, 2009
MD Graves
I’m not sure if I could take anymore excitement in my bus stop experience.
May 3rd, 2009
Rob
Yeah breath taking bus tops.I would like to wait at this Hammock Bus Stop.
May 4th, 2009
VIRAJ
HERE IN INDIA YOU GET NOTHING BUT A BOARD!!!!!!!
N DUBAI IS ALWAYS FLY MAN!!!! LOVE IT :)
May 4th, 2009
carpe50
Really awesome and impressive, all of them! :)
May 4th, 2009
roublen
interesting post. But what I would really want in a train/major bus stop is a desk-like thing to help reading & writing
May 4th, 2009
Allen
I live in athens i love that bus stop
May 5th, 2009
Prashanth
All are nice bus stops hope all we will have those india soon
May 5th, 2009
marcioLG
Heyah!!! This is my city!! On Stumble!! Awesome!!! \o/
May 5th, 2009
Edward
Casar de Caceres is a sub-regional bus station more than a bus stop. Possibly a design masterpiece, it is not very user friendly and therefore a complete waste of space and time. Which brings up the issue of should design be functional and in the area of bus stops, I can can only scream – functionality first please. Any budding designers please take note. In this case – Dubai’s designers, as flashy as they are, win hands down.
May 5th, 2009
ED
Very creative bus stops, pity we don’t we see more of these around our citties.
Great photo shot’s !!
May 5th, 2009
zzllrr
Coooooooooool bus stop! masterpiece
May 5th, 2009
Michael
Bravo!It’s amazing !Fantastic!
May 5th, 2009
vick
Very good ideea!
May 6th, 2009
Diane
In San Francisco, they would just be targets for grafitti – what’s wrong with us???
May 6th, 2009
Gumby
Well to HEH, just try to experience waiting for a bus anywhere in the the UAE or Dubai specificaly….you’ll thank the govt. for such a pamper, by the way try waiting on the summer months, you will know why…
May 6th, 2009
raju
Here in Coimbatore, South India, in the name of development first they cut hundreds of trees and then they removed the bus stops. Now people wait for the bus under the scorching summer sun. No shades whatsoever- natural or man made. Very few complain while the rest of India is getting ready for the Election.
May 6th, 2009
winter
lovely!In china ,we couldnot see it!
May 6th, 2009
jasmine
quite an eye opener! thanks!
May 6th, 2009
Mr.Acow
You know that i’m a Chinese.
We don’t have this kind of bus stop in China.
I think it’s interesting to see them.
Maybe oneday we’ll have something like this.
It’ll be a lot of fun~
May 7th, 2009
Wayne's World
I vote for the bus bus stop. Though I wouldn’t mind a cow bus stop
May 7th, 2009
caem
wow,very unusual bus stops.Interesting.
May 8th, 2009
Jaqi Mugo
Morocco makes you want to live there! So homely!
May 8th, 2009
Yittian
led one is suitable for cities,it has more sitting place,you can have a rest
May 8th, 2009
Ei2g
Excellent bus stops. Great post.
It seems Joel S. (3rd May) is getting desperate – methinks he doth protest too much.
May 8th, 2009
vivian
hehe… i like the Strawberry one.
but is “Casar de Caceres Bus Stop” to much… just for a bus stop?
May 8th, 2009
rif
the great human creativity has no limits
thanks Great job.
May 8th, 2009
reza
this places encourage me to wait for a bus
May 10th, 2009
tianqiliang
tMorocco makes you want to live there! So homely
this places encourage me to wait for a bus
May 10th, 2009
rafael
heii., i live in curitiba :P:P
May 10th, 2009
Dave Brown of MIUZU
Bus stops really do deserve the care and consideration of great design! For many, it’s the first place they find themselves lingeringing once they’ve left their home. Why not make it a pleasure? And for the companies that shell out a fortune to post their ads in there, they’re more compelled to invest if their product gets a boost from the setting…
Keep it coming, world!
May 11th, 2009
alaskan architecked not
how do u mow the grass on top of a bus stop??
May 12th, 2009
Gil Henry
I think that you can spend way too much on some of these shelters, although having heat in the winter and A/C in the summer is a nice perk, it is costly. I like the advertising angle that you get from some of the more “adventurous” shelters, but by far the best one is the one in Yosimite National Park, all you need is someone to chase away the bears…..
May 12th, 2009
Courtney Mroch
What a super clever article! The pictures are sooooo neat! The hammock and the swing…what a way to have some fun and relaxation while waiting for the bus. And the strawberry, watermelon, and school bus stops? Too cute! Really great job!
May 13th, 2009
lee
There are so many funny thing, I like them, I have never seen such bus stop. They are great!
May 14th, 2009
Pradeep CD
Awesome post…creative ideas…
May 14th, 2009
Sally Croft
I like Yosemite and Strawberry bus stop the BEST, but all of them are very inspiring.
May 14th, 2009
Preetha
These bus stops are wonderful…
May 15th, 2009
Barb Sherf
I like the hammock bus stop best, followed by the quaint bus stop in Estonia. Thanks for sharing.
May 15th, 2009
lee ye rim
I’m korean, In the korea all of the bus looks like same. So I’m surprised at this picture! I want to made this beautiful bus stop!
May 16th, 2009
lee ye rim
I think this bus stops are bravo~~
May 16th, 2009
mohsin
both the bus stops of japan are very interesting they gave a new meaning to the bus stops.
May 16th, 2009
Danny
This stops makes the public transport more friendly.
May 17th, 2009
rushi
wow, that’s awesome. if more bus stops were like that, more people would use public transportation. yee.
May 17th, 2009
Lili
If we could stop all the vandalism at bus stops in the U.S. maybe riders could have cool bus stops like these.
May 18th, 2009
Ann Hanks
Strawberry and watermelon Style Bus Stop are really unique!
May 22nd, 2009
Bassi
The fully conditioned bus stops in Dubai have come in handy as the heat in summer is simply UNBEARABLE!
Great ideas!
May 24th, 2009
John S. Allen
Some of these bus stops are functional, some artistic, some both. In terms of functionality I’m most impressed by the Curitiba system, which lets people pay before getting onto the bus. as art, the Athen, Georgia one which uses found materials and so didn’t cost a lot. Anyone notice that the hammock bus stop is probably just a joke? — hammock (and backpack) strung up by the photographer, probably by way of making a point about having to wait a *very* long time for the bus :-)
Jun 9th, 2009
ibrahim sadisu
This is exactly what am looking for, i was given an assignmen but i have found all i need here. Thanks
Jun 18th, 2009
dorin
i am 12 years old and i am live in israel
my english very bad .. so i am sorry !
the picture eautify and amazing
i love the picture wite the swing :)
Jun 20th, 2009
Karta
http://www.riksantikvaren.no/filestore/Grabben2.jpg
I absolutely think you should add this too.
It is located close to Kirkenes in Norway.
Some years ago the mining industry had to close down the business and some clever minds found out they could use this shuffle as a bus stop.
Jun 21st, 2009
Phabulous Phil
Functional, fashionable, fantastic. There should be a world competetion for best bus stop.
Phil in Duncan BC Canada
Jul 14th, 2009
FemiStevens
Inspiring some! Can’t wait to share these. Franchise-worthy. Out of the box. Keep it up.
Jul 20th, 2009
niol
to implement these designs in any other city wud be a tribute to the designer.
Jul 29th, 2009
Pliggs
Nice, I like the look of the “Air Conditiioned” one best.
Aug 4th, 2009
rocky
You didn’t show Vancouver’s bright pink bus shelters on Davie St. What gives?
Oct 3rd, 2009
dharini
beautiful bus stops. who would like to catch the bus.
Oct 5th, 2009
sepanta
thanks for these inspirations.
Nov 4th, 2009
Ajit kumar
it is one of the best idea to recreate yourself
Nov 19th, 2009
nirjana
wow! the busstop here shown are attractive. it encourage people to wait at a particular spot so that bus pick up get much easier.i like strawberry and curitiba busstop much.they are unique,functional and attractive. it will be tribute to the designers to have chance to build such bus stop
Dec 5th, 2009
samatwo
I want to wait bus in all of them. Fascinating works.
Dec 26th, 2009
savedobby
umm…just wondering, but are the strawberry and the watermelon in the same place? cause they look kinda alike, and they are both in japan
Dec 28th, 2009
Sudhakar Maddi Reddy
we can’t dream of any of these in asia countries
Jan 7th, 2010
Kurdistan
this is outstanding !
Jan 11th, 2010
James
There is a 3D version of the Dubai bus stop in the Google 3D warehouse.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=59a391d31dd450f212ff783bfbccd635
Jan 13th, 2010
Araw
people are saying it’s flashy in dubai to have an air-conditioned bus stop , but u don’t realize that its a necessity!
in summer the temperature reaches up to 48 (Celsius) so THEY NEED air conditioned bus stops!
Feb 19th, 2010
Ar.roz......
All the bus stops r aesthetically very beautiful bt none of them provides all those functions which a bus stop must hav in today’s time.. e.g.,adequate protection from various weathering agencies nd none of d bus stop has a tuck shop in it……
Mar 24th, 2010
Modom
i been jealousy to the bus stop right there, i can’t imagine what will happened at my country while the conventional bus stop has been stolen often.
Nice post
Apr 7th, 2010
karabo modikele
very creative ideas,i love them i also hav a project to design a bus shelter.
Apr 14th, 2010
ugly bus stops
english bus stops are a bloody disgrace
they look sooo popostourous and perpindicular!!!
i am going to get my army of ants to bombarde them!!!
Apr 19th, 2010
Ayubowan
No they are not! they are very innovative and serves its perpose..! Pls learn to make some constructive critisism!!
Apr 19th, 2010
Ben Koshkin
Really neat. If we could only get the powers that be to build innovative bus stops like these in Houston.
Ben Koshkin
Apr 24th, 2010
Marc
Very inventive bus stops I must say. That swing in London is groovy baby…
Apr 24th, 2010
sub
i like the bus bus stop its sculptural look exciting and also the swing bus stop in london…. it would be fun to wait for a.
May 4th, 2010
Balwant
Amazing Ideas for Bus Stop. Love It… Incredible
Jun 6th, 2010
Swapnil Barman
I like the LED bus stop the most. It is aaaaaaaamaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzingggggggggggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Sep 6th, 2010
Tala
You guys to whomever is dissing the Dubai Bus stops for being air-conditioned: it’s not even a luxury its a necessity. Take it from me, I live in Dubai and I take the bus. Unless you’re been in 52 degree heat, then you have no idea what it feels like to stand in a closed off glass box with a serious greenhouse effect going on with no AC. Its like when you try to burn an ant with a microscope and it erupts into tiny flames.
In fact I’m pretty pissed at the fact that not all of them are air-conditioned. I nearly passed out waiting for the bus near my house the other day.
Sep 16th, 2010
Randeep
Great! hope India too gets its act together and construct some Bus stand in the rural areas The Government must do something for the rural massses..!
Oct 14th, 2010
sravan satheesh
for many of above bus stops visiblity of coming bus is not considerd much.Also no need of that playing facilities in bus stops.AC bus stop in dubai is nice because they considered the climate there.many designs are so nice also.
thank you
Dec 30th, 2010
mark
Some of them are (so) mouth watering almost good enough to eat let alone shelter just like being home away from home
Jan 10th, 2011
angella
this is really nice especially the dubai one. Its just sick.
Feb 10th, 2011
from Estonia
Hm.. That bus stop shown here is not the best we have.
In several bus stops there are music playing in Tallinn and once there were sofas in some bus stops here.
Also we have one bus stop looking like county-home, where you can read news and drink coffee in cold winter.
Apr 14th, 2011
Joshika
been 2 d yosemite one..!!!!!
luking forward to visit each one..:P:P:P:P
btw the one in curitiba,brazil is an epitome of sophistication..!!!!
THUMBS UP….!!!!
Jul 18th, 2011
Fred
The swing stop is amazing and fun for everyone…except for the people walking on the pavement behind the stop engrossed in their cell phones and not expecting to be knocked senseless by a swing with a fully grown person on it swinging out from behind a bus stop wall….
Mar 4th, 2012
Devendra
Really Loving Bus stops.
We are planning some of these in ouc City- Gwalior(M.P.), INDIA. I am sure that in our city once these stops come up, then we can see really people sitting inside stops and Buses, City transport vehicles stopping onlt at these stops not as we have today where buses/city transport stops wherever they feel like.
Jul 2nd, 2012
sam
damn you heh
Nov 18th, 2012
Jodie
For me it would be a tossup between Dubai’s a/c one …. I hate being hot
and the fun of the swing one =)
Special cuddos to all the fun designs ppl come up with
Sep 25th, 2013