Photo by Craig Wilkins on A-Design Award and Competition website.
In a city like Detroit, take a dose of hip and funky and creativity and you've got some pretty interesting bus stop benches.
The Atlantic Cities website reports that designers, artist and local are buildings benches/shelters from demolished remains of houses.
John Metcalfe of Atlantic Cities writes that the project, Door Stops...
Is designed to infiltrate the more blighted and underserved areas of Detroit with mobile DIY furniture. Made from old doors salvaged from destroyed properties, the shelters are colorfully painted to put a smile on the faces of folks in the vicinity.... The first of the stops went out into the city late last year; today, the A' Design Award & Competition announced that it is gifting the effort with a silver medal in "Social Design."
The lightweight structures are meant to go into places where people could use a good sit-down, such as a bus stop with no bench. Their locations are not meant to be permanent.
