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Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design, it was used in railroad locomotives, telephones, buses, appliances, and other devices to give the ...
A bus station or a bus interchange is a structure where city buses or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. While the term bus depot can also be used to refer to a bus station, it can also refer to a bus garage. A bus station is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can stop. It ...
Free design of the ground plan – commonly considered the focal point of the Five Points, with its construction dictating new architectural frameworks. [4] The absence of load-bearing partition walls affords greater flexibility in design and use of living spaces; the house is unrestrained in its internal use. [2]
The Vauxhall Society campaigned against the demolition and set up a petition to pressure the government to reconsider. An attempt to get the bus station Listed building status failed in 2014. [5] By 2019 the plans were to build two residential tower blocks on the site, at heights of 53 and 42 floors, with a new bus station on the ground floor.
An office building in Accra, Ghana.. Office buildings are generally categorized by size and by quality (e.g., "a low-rise Class A building") [2]. Office buildings by size. Low-rise (less than 7 stories)
A station building, also known as a head house, is the main building of a passenger railway station. It is typically used principally to provide services to passengers. [1] [2] [3] A station building is a component of a station, which can include tracks, platforms, an overpass or underpass, and a train shed.
Free plan, in the architecture world, refers to the ability to have a floor plan with non-load bearing walls and floors by creating a structural system that holds the weight of the building by ways of an interior skeleton of load bearing columns. The building system carries only its columns, or skeleton, and each corresponding ceiling.
The bus station was built under a public-private partnership between the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) and realty firm Cube Construction. The building is known as the Ved Transcube Plaza. Built at a cost of ₹ 114 crore (US$13 million), the five-storey station is spread over 2.4 lakh square feet.