Hello everybody. My name is Sebastian and I'm your newest member from Bucharest, Romania. I decided to join this forum after constantly visiting it and checking posts and threads here for over two months now. What better way to celebrate my joining then to create a brand new thread :hammer:


I'm really interested in the majority of the subjects discussed here and many of the information that I got from this forum has come in handy and has greatly improved my knowledge of well...basically everything related to cities/countries etc.

Now, let's cut the chit-chat and start to relate to the thread title.
I'm interested in urban furniture, what are your countries cities plans regarding it?/what is the curent state of your cities furniture in use?

I'm really dissapointed with the curent furniture that lies on Bucharest's streets, really doesn't blend in with the rest of the enviroment and it seems whenever something new gets chosen to replace the time/vandal deteriorated ones, they pick the ugliest of all choices.
I heard there are plans of replacing all of the curent street furniture in Bucharest, with some that meet european standards... The auction was supposed to take place this fall, but I haven't heard anything on this subject for quite some time.

I will start searching for different pictures of Bucharest's street furniture soon, so you may get an idea of what I'm trying to say..

Excuse me but what do you mean by "street furniture" ?

Excuse me but what do you mean by "street furniture" ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_furniture

Thanks. Unfortunately, vandalism is a big problem here too..

Welcome, mitsurughi!

Hope these fit your criteria, from Budapest:

http://www.mediacontact.hu/images/taxifoto2.jpg

http://www.mediacontact.hu/images/taxifoto6.jpg

These are Taxi stations combined with Citylight posters. They are equipped with a kind of phone, you can call a taxi or the police. The first is the standard one, the second is with a little roof and bench, so you won't get wet while waiting for your taxi.

The state of city furniture is pretty bad here due to vandalism, and the benches are usually used by homeless people as a place to sleep.

Welcome, Sebastian! 4 more Romanians and we're on par with the Serbs. :D

But on to the topic at hand. You say our street furniture doesn't blend with the rest of the city. I say it blends very well. It's generally just as chaotic, cheap and ugly as the rest of the city.:)

Some street furniture from Bucharest...
http://www.imagehost.ro/pict/2922174847263fec13bb4.jpghttp://www.imagehost.ro/pict/29222157472640e58914d.jpghttp://www.imagehost.ro/pict/29222007472640770143f.jpg
http://www.imagehost.ro/pict/29222132472640cc64ee9.jpg
http://www.imagehost.ro/pict/29221903472640377668e.jpg

These are used in Belgrade as bus stops
http://www.euromodul.co.yu/urbana_oprema/110-velika.gif

Toruń

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/4099/dsc09158ga6.jpg

Kraków

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/9/3056/z3056289G.jpghttp://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c196/grzaniec2/11grudnia/PICT1884.jpg

welcome mitsurughi !
vote here if you want : http://www.skyscrapercity.com/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=44457

* albann voted for romania ! :lol::lol::lol:

:hammer:Isn't he from Albania?!

He's definitely not albanian... just some banned troll trying to make us look bad

in Tirana
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1232/1217224652_6e7d8eda15_o.jpg
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/images/thumb/a/ac/Tirana_1.jpg/300px-Tirana_1.jpg

Here a couple of pix of benches that are set up every year in Poznań in the summer time.

http://www.e-book.com.pl/pliki/cms/4578/lawki1.jpg

http://www.e-book.com.pl/pliki/cms/4578/lawki7.jpg

http://www.e-book.com.pl/pliki/cms/4578/lawki3.jpg

http://www.e-book.com.pl/pliki/cms/4578/lawki4.jpg

http://www.e-book.com.pl/pliki/cms/4578/lawki5.jpg

http://www.e-book.com.pl/pliki/cms/4578/lawki8.jpg

http://www.e-book.com.pl/pliki/cms/4578/lawki9.jpg

http://www.e-book.com.pl/pliki/cms/4578/lawki2.jpg

What about this 'furniture'?? From Cow Parade-Bucharest :lol:

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/859/bucaresticow1hu8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/3038/bucaresticow4vw6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/116/bucharestifrontcp5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)