HOW TO DESIGN A SUCCESSFUL PETROL STATION Minale Tattersfield Design Strategy

Un libro sulla progettazione delle stazioni petrolifere, con un'introduzione che contestualizza storicamente i progetti, presentando la storia e l'evoluzione della distribuzione della benzina. Progetti di grande respiro, come le Stazioni Shell, le BP, sono analizzati e presentati non solo dal punti di vista estetico ma anche da quello della modulistica e dell'investimento economico. I testi del volume sono in lingua inglese.

Introduction - BP - Shell - Repsol - Italiana Petroli (IP) - Hydro Texaco - Elinoil - Lukoil - YPF - Q8 - Thaioil - Petron - Petronas - Afriquia - Mintat G3 - Maser - Bluewater - The Refinery - And finally...

We enter petrol stations, make our purchases and leave, without stopping to consider the creative and technical skill that has gone into the genesis of these modern-day icons. Minale's latest book not only provides us with a compendium of recent petrol station design including all the leading international names (e.g. Shell, Texaco) from the USA to the Middle East to Russia as well as the designers who created each project. It also focuses our minds on the power of branding and illustrates the way in which design can affect us subliminally and alter our buying decisions. And it raises essential questions about the future. In the new millennium, will the architecture and design of today's filling stations become as talked about as those landmarks of other ages-the great power stations, the deco cinemas from the golden age of film or the warehouses of our glorious manufacturing past