Canberra's brutalist bus shelters become cultural icons

In 1975, Australia's capital city began installing cylindrical concrete bus shelters that look like someone buried a giant culvert pipe halfway into the sidewalk and cut a door in it. They are brutalist as hell. They are also now considered a beloved cultural icon.

At least 477 of the shelters were purchased and installed through the early 1990s, and 455 were still in service as of 2016. They were designed for the National Capital Development Commission and have proven to be extremely hard-wearing, though problems with windows and lighting make them uncomfortable at times.

The public reaction was initially mixed but Canberrans have come to love their aggressive concrete tubes. The shelters have been the subject of artwork, reproduced as earrings, and committed permanently to skin in tatt