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Motorway Service Station project (Preliminary plan)

Mario Bellini
Italian, born 1935
1991
A graphite-on-paper preliminary plan by Mario Bellini proposing the layout and concept for a motorway service station, sketching how buildings and circulation might be arranged for travelers.
The drawing shows how Bellini brought a product-designer’s clarity and attention to user experience to public infrastructure, advancing a late-20th-century interest in treating roadside facilities as designed environments rather than merely utilitarian stops.
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
14 × 33 1/4" (35.6 × 84.5 cm)
Classification
Credit
Gift of the architect in honor of Philip Johnson
Accession
352.1996
Art Terms
Exhibitions
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