petrol station betydelse and definition

Exempel på petrol station

• The petrol station is the branded building par ex cellence, though it is hard to see quite why.

• The comparison between the petrol station and the parish church is perhaps far-fetched.

• Of course, a petrol station, a fast-food outlet and a budget hotel do not make a community.

• The modern petrol station is not a single building but a non-hierarchical collection of separate objects.

• The main occupations are : drivers, tractor drivers, petrol station workers, irrigation workers (men and women), weeders (men and women), gardeners and loaders.

• At the heart of the cluster, like a parish church in a country village, stands the petrol station.

• From an architectural point of view, it isn't the branding itself that makes the petrol station interesting, but the standardization of form and building technology that branding encourages.

• The petrol station has become a settled vernacular building type and it has achieved this not through invention or original design but through a gradual process of evolution.