24
Aug
Petrol Pumps from Van der Rohe to Lloyd Wright
Oobject collected 15 modernist gas stations, including the Jack Colker Union 96 station on Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills below and the Norman Foster Repsol gas station above. A longtime testing ground for architects, petrol stations have challenged some of the best to have ever walked the Earth, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van der Rohe and Elliot Noyes.
Isn’t that how Roark got his start…?
