natural gas stations are n’t pretty , specially the stark , useful unity that pose just off the highway with their filthy bathrooms and broken vending machines . But a handful of stops along an Amsterdam roadwaygot a beam redevelopment . Literally .
ab initio , the pair of 1980 ’s accelerator Stations of the Cross were set to be destroy so as to coalesce three existing parks . Instead , Sophie Valla Architectswas give the fortune to rick them into fantastic glow light installations that double a get together space conveniently situated were there ’s route admittance to the arena .
The long - defunct gun pump were replaced with a handful of comfy reclining outdoor chairs , and the sheer , irksome ceiling above them was fit with dynamic sparkle fixture that fracture and change to reflect the ever - changing Dutch sky . And that ’s to say nothing of the cloth lined building , now clothed in curtains cavort geometric designs and backlit by a ardent , emanating beam .
It ’s a nice second life for a gun station to have , and a hopeful exercise of increasingly outdated infrastructure that will only become more and more common as time go on . It might be a piddling bit of a reaching to make a nice hangout spot out of that dilapidated Exxon in the ghetto , but there are plenty of hopefully - soon - to - be - useless filling stations that could make for amazing gleaming rest stop along our own roadway in the decades to come . But hopefully they wo n’t get free of the hot chocolate machines . [ Sophie Valla ArchitectsviaDesignboomviaCo . intention ]
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