Spanish Bus Shelter by Eustáquio Martínez

Eustáquio Martínez’s Spanish Bus Station Looks Like a Levitating Alien Spaceship!

07/05/2012

Spanish Bus Shelter by Eustáquio Martínez

In Spain, a country that has produced some of the world's most iconic modernist <a title="Eustaquio Martinez" href="http://inhabitat.com/architecture/">architecture</a> and fearless imaginative lines, why should a bus stop look like a mere shelter for buses? That's the approach taken by Spanish architect <a title="Eustaquio Martinez" href="http://www.eustaquiomartinez.com/">Eustáquio Martínez</a>, who designed the Intercambiador Padre Anchieta (Interchange Station Padre Anchieta) in Santa Cruz, Tenerife. This unconventional bus shelter, completed in Feburary, truly celebrates the spirit of surrealist Spanish architecture.

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Spanish Bus Shelter by Eustáquio Martínez

Intercambiador Padre Anchieta (Interchange Station Padre Anchieta) in Santa Cruz, Tenerife designed by Spanish Architect <a title="Eustaquio Martinez" href="http://www.eustaquiomartinez.com/">Eustáquio Martínez.</a>

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Spanish Bus Shelter by Eustáquio Martínez

A great combination of contrasting textures and subtle colours highlight the green buses.

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Spanish Bus Shelter by Eustáquio Martínez

The overhang caused due to the top heavy structure gives the structure a drama of it floating in the air.

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Spanish Bus Shelter by Eustáquio Martínez

We love the vibrancy the bright red cavities add to the building. In the words of <a title="Antoni Gaudi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD">Antoni Gaudí</a>, the father of modern Spanish <a title="Architecture" href="http://inhabitat.com/architecture/">Architecture</a>, “Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic”: A thought that Arch. <a title="Eustaquio Martinez" href="http://www.eustaquiomartinez.com/">Eustáquio Martínez</a> seems to have incorporated beautifully in his design.

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Spanish Bus Shelter by Eustáquio Martínez

This bus shelter by<a title="Eustaquio Martinez" href="http://www.eustaquiomartinez.com/">Eustáquio Martínez</a> expresses a lovely combination or <a title="Art" href="http://inhabitat.com/art/">art</a> and utility.

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Spanish Bus Shelter by Eustáquio Martínez

A view of the bus corridors: The fact that they are no columns supporting the overhang makes it all the more spectacular and adds to the grandeur. Quoting <a title="Gaudi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD">Gaudí</a> once more, “"Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments."

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In Spain, a country that has produced some of the world's most iconic modernist architecture and fearless imaginative lines, why should a bus stop look like a mere shelter for buses? That's the approach taken by Spanish architect Eustáquio Martínez, who designed the Intercambiador Padre Anchieta (Interchange Station Padre Anchieta) in Santa Cruz, Tenerife. This unconventional bus shelter, completed in Feburary, truly celebrates the spirit of surrealist Spanish architecture.

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