May 22, 2008

An Arboreal Bus Shelter

Nara bus stop

A recent photoset of sculpted trees (real or photoshopped?) on PartIV reminded me of a couple of bus stops I saw in Nara during last year’s trip to Japan. Although not as…forced as the unusual tree-forms, the bus shelters are an elegant, natural alternative to standard bus stops that are perfectly suited to the surrounding park and reinforced all my positive feelings about Japan. Bonus pics of a couple of the more useful tree-forms after the jump.
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  1. reinito on May 22nd, 2008 8:15 am

    nice new look :)
    to bad i’m out of your blogroll :(

    saludos…

  2. jimmy on May 22nd, 2008 8:23 am

    Subtle.
    I’m still tweaking a few things — including the blogroll. You’re back in there!

  3. megan on May 25th, 2008 11:11 am

    congrats on your mopo ranking!

  4. Blaize on May 27th, 2008 10:25 am

    The sculpted trees are real, not shopped. Some are the work of Axel Erlandson (http://www.arborsmith.com/treecircus.html). Some of his sculpted trees are now located at a park near where I live.