The 14 Best-Designed Gas Stations in the World
Finding a gas station isn’t too hard—in any city there’s usually at least one every few miles—but finding the best-designed gas stations can prove to be a bigger challenge. Generally crafted to move customers through as quickly and efficiently as possible, it’s not the type of architecture you think of when picturing beautiful structures. However, that doesn’t mean stunning ones don’t exist.
Across the globe, architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have reimagined the gas station from something you drive through to something you drive to. Here, filling stations and rest stops go from purely utilitarian to profoundly magnificent. Below, AD surveys the 14 best-designed gas stations around the world that are worth a road trip in and of themselves.