New Bus Design for London

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New Bus Design for London

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Foster and Partners with Aston Martin have won a design competition to design a new bus for London. Their competition winning entry is shown below.

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This is not my favourite. The best in my humble opinion is the one designed by Jamie Martin

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Re: New Bus Design for London

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The first one looks like a children's toy, or something from an animation (the headlights are way big, they look like eyes). I'd think the second one was rejected because it was too "retro".

There was a joint runner up there as well, which looks fairly bad. Looks like the judging may not have gone entirely on looks, as it mentions "detailed technical drawings".
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