Glorious gas station design - the world's 10 best filling stations
Whether you know them as gas or petrol stations - these roadside rest-stops show a truly amazing bredth of architecture styles. Here are our 10 favourites
Gas Galanta
Location: Slovakia - Matúškovo
Architect: Atelier SAD
Completed: 2011
Photo: Tomáš Soucek
Recalling the parasol - or flying saucer - shaped canopies of Britain's 1960s Mobil Petrol stations (see page 7), this service area in Matúškovo, Slovakia, is made of a reinforced concrete structure featuring three funnel-shaped columns that support three curvy horizontal discs. Overhead lighting is built into the surface where columns meet the discs and lining their undulating edges.
Photo: Tomáš Soucek
The larch-wood facade of the cubic kiosk boosts the station's streamlined appearance, while timber beams inside the shop generate a sense of coherence between interior and exterior.
Photo: Tomáš Soucek
