BIG unveils design for Västerås Travel Center with curved timber ceiling
Architecture firm BIG has updated its plans for a transport hub designed for Swedish city Västerås, which will feature a building with a dramatically sweeping roof. More
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Fakro Light Tunnels illuminate Kielce's renovated bus station
Dezeen promotion: window manufacturer Fakro's light tunnels have been used to revitalise the Kielce Bus Station in Poland. More
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Chybik + Kristof brings light and life into brutalist Zvonařka Bus Terminal
Czech studio Chybik + Kristof has completed its redesign of Brno's Zvonařka Bus Terminal, a brutalist building that the architects fought to preserve in a self-initiated project. More
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Station of Being is an interactive Arctic bus stop
Architecture studio Rombout Frieling Lab and Research Institutes of Sweden have created the Station of Being as a prototype bus stop for use in the Arctic region, which uses sound and light to alert passengers to approaching buses. More
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Brutalist Preston Bus Station refurbished by John Puttick Associates
John Puttick Associates has completed the renovation of the Grade II-listed brutalist bus station in Preston, in the north of England. More
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Competition: win a book documenting the unusual bus stops of the former Soviet Union
Dezeen is giving away three copies of a book documenting 500 unusual bus stops across the former Soviet countries, including Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Georgia. More
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Peter Ortner photographs 500 bus stops in former Soviet Union
German photographer Peter Ortner has spent seven years documenting 500 bus stops across former Soviet countries, including a triangular pavilion, a winged shelter and several colourful mosaic designs. More
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Undulating roof covers Benthem Crouwel's rail and bus station in Utrecht
A wave-like roof covers this vast transport hub in Utrecht designed by Dutch firm Benthem Crouwel Architects for the largest railway station in the Netherlands. More
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Shell-like roofs provide shelter at Pforzheim Central Bus Station
Stuttgart architecture studio Metaraum has completed a bus station in the German city of Pforzheim, featuring curving canopies that swoop up and over waiting areas (+ slideshow). More
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Koen van Velsen Architects creates patchwork brick walls for bus and rail station in Breda
Koen van Velsen Architects has created a new transport hub in Dutch city Breda, featuring a huge entrance canopy and a variety of brickwork styles (+ slideshow). More
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Huge slender canopy shelters passengers at Santa Pola Bus Station
Architects Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo have completed a bus station in the Spanish town of Santa Pola, featuring a huge metal roof that tapers to form very thin edges on each side (+ slideshow). More
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Dramatically overhauled plans unveiled for Preston Bus Station
John Puttick Associates has significantly revised its designs for a new youth centre at Preston Bus Station, a transport hub in northern England that has become an icon of Brutalist architecture (+ slideshow). More
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Folded concrete canopy shelters Spanish bus station by Ismo Arquitectura
A cluster of concrete animal-feed silos loom over this pavilion-like bus station in western Spain, which was designed by Ismo Arquitectura to improve transport links to a fortified town (+ slideshow). More
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John Puttick Associates wins competition for £13 million Preston Bus Station overhaul
New York practice John Puttick Associates has won the competition to redevelop the Brutalist 1960s bus station in Preston, England, with a design that features a rooftop football pitch, a climbing wall and a skate park. More
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Youth centre proposals shortlisted for Brutalist Preston Bus Station refurbishment
The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed five possible designs for a youth centre that will form part of the £23 million redevelopment of Preston's Brutalist bus station, which was recently saved from demolition (+ slideshow). More
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Competition launched to create youth centre inside Preston's Brutalist bus station
News: an international design competition has been launched to create a "state-of-the-art facility for young people" inside Preston Bus Station, an iconic Brutalist building in Lancashire, England. More
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Pastel-pink bus shelters by Maxwan boast "world's thinnest steel roofs"
These three Rotterdam bus shelters were designed by Dutch studio Maxwan with concave and convex "razor-thin" rooftops reminiscent of billowing fabric (+ slideshow). More
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LOHA's revamped Santa Monica bus shelters are blue discs on stilts
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has redesigned Santa Monica's bus shelters by developing a modular kit of parts that can be used to build an assortment of round blue canopies, supported on slender poles (+ slideshow). More
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Brutalist buildings: Preston Bus Station by Building Design Partnership
Brutalism: four rows of sculptural concrete fins make up the brazenly brutalist facade of Preston Bus Station in Lancashire, England – the next project in Dezeen's series. More
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Sou Fujimoto bus shelter closed to prevent "possible accidents"
News: a spindly bus stop created by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto in Krumbach, Austria, has been unexpectedly closed to the public because it doesn't "follow the Austrian regulations for building safety". More
