BUSTOP
BUSSTOPS in Hanover is an art project with twelve half-open shelters for city trains and city buses of the üstra . It was part of a project on art in public space between 1990 and 1994 and was created on the initiative of the Lower Saxony Foundation in cooperation with the üstra and Toto-Lotto Lower Saxony . The design project was carried out by internationally renowned architects and designers. The task for the artists was to create art as an extraordinary part of an ordinary service .
The busstops
A total of twelve shelters were built at nine different stops. Three stops (Steintor, Leinaustraße, Nieschlagstraße) have each received two houses for both directions of travel. Only light rail vehicles stop at the Congress Centrum stop, while both trains and buses stop at two other stops (Leinaustraße and Nieschlagstraße). The remaining five stops are only served by buses.
Stone gate
At the stone gate , the Italian architect Alessandro Mendini created two black-and-yellow checkered cuboids with golden cones at the above-ground stop of the tram lines 10 and 17 ( location ). The Anzeiger high-rise is within sight . The station is on Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse in the city center on the edge of the pedestrian zone. The area is characterized by metropolitan shopping streets.
The tram stop was relocated to Münzstraße in 2018 to make it easier to change to the Steintor subway station . The two bus stops were moved to the side of the road on Kurt-Schumacher-Straße and serve bus routes 128 and 134.
Leinaustrasse
The design professor Andreas Brandolini designed two similar stop houses for the tram line 10 and the bus line 700 for both directions, the roofs of which have been planted ( location ). The stop is in Limmerstrasse, which is designated as a pedestrian zone , in a residential area close to the center in Linden-Nord . The traditional Apollo cinema is located directly at the stop . The planting creates a contrast to the urban development on Limmerstrasse.
Nieschlagstrasse
The Cologne design professor Wolfgang Laubersheimer equipped the tram stop of the tram line 9 and the bus ring line 100/200 with two houses, each with two large metal spherical caps ( location ). The houses are slightly offset from one another and not directly opposite, depending on the location of the direction stops. The domes were aligned with the domes of the other house. This results in an acoustic effect: if you speak into a bowl on one side, you can hear it on the opposite side. The stop is in the pedestrian zone of a residential area in Linden-Mitte . The environment is characterized by Wilhelminian style buildings .
Königsworther Platz
On Königsworther Platz , the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass designed a house for the bus stop of line 100 at the subway station of the same name on lines 4 and 5, the sides of which consist of eight large yellow crosses ( location ). The crosses grouped as a pair (XX) are supposed to represent the 20th century. The flat roof gives the impression of a table. The stop is located in a very busy place.
Maschsee / Sprengelmuseum
The Berlin avant-garde artist Heike Mühlhaus created a roof in the form of a twelve-meter-wide whale fin ( Fluke ) ( location ) for the bus stop of the 100 bus line . It is located in the Maschpark across from the Sprengelmuseum . The area around the stop is characterized by the green areas of the Maschpark and the proximity of the Maschsee .
Hanover Congress Center
The Barcelona- born architect and painter Óscar Tusquets Blanca built a pagoda roof made of glass and metal for the bus stop to the south at the Congress Center in the Zoo district ( location ). The shelter is embedded in an avenue of arbors. In addition to the Congress Center, the surrounding area is characterized by the nearby Eilenriede on one side and the oval Theodor-Heuss-Platz on the other. Today (2013) the stop is served by the tram line 11 towards the city center.
Braunschweiger Platz
Frank O. Gehry created a small house consisting of rectangular green and white scales that is reminiscent of a reptile shell ( location ). It's at the stop out of town. The bus lines 128 and 134 stop here and offer the option of changing to the subway station of the same name on lines 4, 5, 6 and 11. Braunschweiger Platz is located in the Bult district at the beginning of the Hans-Böckler-Allee leading to Kleefeld . It is shaped by the veterinary university and new office buildings.
The Gehry Tower on Üstra in Goethestrasse was designed by Gehry .
Aegidientorplatz
The little house at the Aegidientorplatz stop on bus routes 100 and 120 by designer Jasper Morrison appears to be rather inconspicuous and functional ( location ). The square is a central traffic junction on the edge of the city center and is characterized by office and bank buildings. Behind the house there is an entrance to the Aegidientorplatz underground station .
Morrison designed the TW 2000 light rail vehicles .
Town hall / Friedrichswall
For the stop Friedrichswall / Culemannstraße bus number 120 on the Friedrichswall before Wangenheimpalais designed Massimo Iosa Ghini a futuristic green air boat. The stop was set up for buses traveling in the direction of Waterlooplatz on the bus lane on the busy inner city ring ( old location ). Because of the Maschpark that begins here with the New Town Hall , it is also in the countryside.
In March 2013, the bus lane in need of renovation was removed in this section and the two stops Friedrichswall / Culemannstraße and Rathaus / Osterstraße were replaced by the new stop Rathaus / Friedrichswall in between. The bus stop has been moved to the edge of the road in front of the August Kestner Museum and is now used by buses traveling in the direction of Aegidientorplatz. It is the first house in the Busstops project that has been implemented.
Before the Expo 2000, Ghini redesigned the largest underground station, Kröpcke .
Others
In October 2013, the BUS: STOP project was presented in the Austrian town of Krumbach (Vorarlberg) . Seven bus stop houses ("Bushüsle") designed by international architectural offices are being built here.
literature
- Lothar Romain (Ed.), Peter Ruthenberg (Red.): BUSSTOPS. Internationales Design-Projekt Hannover 1992 , catalog for the exhibition in the Kestner Museum from June 20 to September 20, 1992 by the Lower Saxony Foundation in cooperation with the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the Kestner Museum and the ÜSTRA, Munich: Hirmer, 1992, ISBN 3 -7774-5970-4
- Lothar Romain (Ed.): BUSSTOPS. International design project 1994 of the Lower Saxony Foundation in cooperation with Toto-Lotto Niedersachsen GmbH and ÜESTRA AG , Hanover: Verlag Th. Schäfer, 1994, ISBN 3-88746-326-9 .
- Hugo Thielen : Bussstops In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 102f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Üstra: BUSSTOPS ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The schedule for the construction of the D line is in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 30, 2013
- ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of March 4, 2013
- ↑ BUS: STOP - International architects designed Bregenzerwald bus shelters
- ↑ Ingeborg Wiensowski: Stops architecture: Hopefully get the bus too late. In: Spiegel Online . October 14, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 .
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