Splitting consists of found photographs which document the illegal destruction of a building lying on a disputed property line in a residential area south-west of Oslo. Two workers were hired...
On the run from Las Vegas police and a smooth talking blackjack dealer, The Prodigal Sun graces our cover for one last throw of the dice before her inevitable, spectacular...
Pint Angel2021Illustration - Oil Painting & Digital Image Manipulation29 x 42 cm UnframedOpen Edition €28 Unframed (includes 13.5% VAT) About the Artist Squid Fillets is a multi-disciplinary designer and creative based...
The idea for STADSLIV came about after moving house and paying the obligatory visit to IKEA. Their manuals are so recognisable and describe how different parts make up a whole....
Between 1987 and 1994 Tony Kearns photographed many of London's markets including Greenwich Market, South London; Ridley Road, Dalston; Berwick Street, Soho; Columbia Road Flower Market; Brixton Market; and Chapel...
TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK There are nocturnal visitors. The quiet unseen life of the world when the traffic has stopped, and the planes are grounded. There is no more busyness...
As our everyday lives become increasingly entangled with data technologies, the book addresses the utopian fantasy that surrounds the Cloud, as transcending physical presence or resourcing. By bringing the physical...
The 250-page annual publication, States, is a platform for global creators to engage with key contemporary questions. Interviews, analysis, opinions, reviews, short stories, recipes, comics, photographs, and illustrations come together...
This artist’s book is a new strand of Static Range, a multidisciplinary and multilimbed project that uses a real-life spy-story in the Indian Himalayas as a canvas for speculations and...
The STAY CRITICAL Cap supports the production of OVER journal. You can find out more about the publication at overjournal.org.Beechfield Original Headwear Authentic Baseball Cap100% Cotton Twill6 panel designRip-Strip size...
Ansin, Serpentine Pavilion2022Photography32 x 45 cm Framed / 30 x 42 cm UnframedOpen Edition€227 Framed / €114 Unframed (includes 13.5% VAT) From Serpentine Pavilion 2022 in London, designed by Theaster Gates. In...
Please note: we only post unframed prints. For framed purchases, free Click-and-Collect is available from The Library Project and Dublin delivery only. See further shipping information below. Keem Bay2024Photography30 x...
Misty Morning2021Photography32 x 44 cm Framed / 30 x 42 cm UnframedEdition of 25€568 Framed / €397 Unframed (includes 13.5% VAT) About the Artist Stephen Turner is a Dublin based photographer....
Vico Jumper2023Photography32 x 44 cm Framed / 30 x 42 cm UnframedEdition of 25€568 Framed / €397 Unframed (includes 13.5% VAT) About the Artist Stephen Turner is a Dublin based photographer....
Please note: we only post unframed prints. For framed purchases, free Click-and-Collect is available from The Library Project and Dublin delivery only. See further shipping information below. Winter Evening in...
Steven NestorPass, 2009Postcard steven-nestor.com Presented as part of St. Patrick's Festival cultural city trail in 2020, and to mark the first decade of PhotoIreland, The Library Project brings together 100 Views of Contemporary Ireland,...
Walking the streets of Mumbai in the early hours of the morning, photographer Mayur Tekchandaney, a long time resident of the city, discovers an unexpectedly quiet beauty: the happy coincidences...
Disko Bay is thrilled to present the acclaimed Danish artist Absalon Kirkeby’s latest book Still Fantasy, a kaleidoscopic refraction of images. Kirkeby presents us with a range of image types...
The first Apollo moon landing. Jumbo, the elephant. The films of Chris Marker. The belly buttons of Adam and Eve. The story of the Utah teapot. The gaze of thermal...
Still Looking Good is triadic collaboration between siblings Oliver Connew (dancer/choreographer) and Alice Connew (photographer) that brings together dance, sound and a visual aesthetic that are drawn from and reference pervasive...
Stir the Pot is a collaborative photography and mixed-media publication sourced from a community-driven open call. Through a serendipitous unity of differing perspectives on the theme, Stir the Pot assembles...
For centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needle moving in and out of fabric. Stitching Freedom explores the embroidery made in prisons...
Tatreez — elaborate hand-embroidery — is an ancient Palestinian craft characterised by remarkable beauty and complexity. Beginning with an introduction to the regional diversity of historic Palestinian dress, Rachel Dedman...
“Days in Derry are long. There’s not a whole lot to do except hang out, wasting time. Essentially I am imposing my ideas of youth, freedom, beauty and rebellion on...
British artist Mark Neville moved home and studio from London to live in Kyiv, Ukraine, last year. With 100,000 Russian troops amassed on the Ukrainian border and the whole country...
Indians first came to Fiji as indentured labourers in 1879. Since the Rabuka coup d’état in 1987, and three subsequent Fiji coups, Indian-Fijians have been emigrating from the country in...
This extraordinary work, captured between 2005 and 2019, challenges the conventional narrative of East versus West and offers a striking visual exploration of life in post-industrial America and Russia. Through...
Repackaged for 2022 with an additional essay and new design elements! In Strangers, Rebecca Tamás explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be...
In Strangers, Rebecca Tamás explores where the human and nonhuman meet, and why this delicate connection just might be the most important relationship of our times. From ‘On Watermelon’ to...
New York in the 70’s and 80’s was a volatile city, where everything was happening at once. For over two years, Jill Freedman joined two precincts of the NYPD as...
Atelier HOKO’s encounters with public bins reveal how unexpected or “improper” use or interactions, no matter how minor, are rich areas for study and observation, sometimes humorously so. This well...
This second investigation in the Street Report publication series looks at the Sungei Road Thieves Market in Singapore, a place where an informal and fluid network of market vendors come...
Peter Downsbrough's photographs of man-hole covers and vents in different locations in Europe and the United States.
Published by Coracle PressSoftcover72 pages160 x 240 mmISBN 9780906630594
Stryker (2017) - Creating a story from photographs hole punched by the Farm Security Administration’s Roy Stryker. A5 (A4 when opened), printed on 100gsm recycled paper and staple bound. Self...
Citizen Artist 2016-2018 is a publication that reflects on the process of the studio 468 award programme, CITIZEN ARTIST. It demonstrates the richness and diversity of each CITIZEN ARTIST awardees’...
This one-stop handbook for architecture students provides step-by-step techniques for perfecting the vital skills of drawing, model making and surveying. It is a primer on the conventions of architectural representation...
Study for the female body and the idea of diving into the fog. 'It is now a question of concluding a conversation with or without the possibility of a meeting:...
“Sub Sole (in Latin, beneath the sun), an ensemble of photographs made between 2017 and 2020, in the region of the Mediterranean Sea, follows the mythological itinerary of the voyage of...
Originally published in 2016, this second expanded edition coincides with an exhibition at The Royal Photographic Society in late 2019, marking the first UK showing of the project. The recipient...
Two projects I focused on were little league baseball and summer camps. Every year, from spring into summer, one would lead into another and certain things never changed…At summer camp,...
Summer Home is an honest and tender view that challenges The Great American Roadtrip, usually done by white men with a camera. Since 2020, high levels of hate crimes have...
Summer Wagner is the fifteenth in an ongoing bi-monthly series publishing the work of emerging photographers. 'Imagine you’re asleep, time and space don’t hold the weight they normally do, they...
Over the last ten years, Alex Llovet's work has been structured around two main themes: identity and memory. Using the photobook format to conceptualise and present his projects increasingly focused...
Take an intimate glimpse into the sultry mood of a lazy afternoon or a passionate sleepover. The curtains are open and the lights are on. Why not steal away a...
Cyanotypes of essential pandemic medical supplies paired with UK government ministers accused of conflicts of interest with the companies supplying these products.
Self PublishedOpen EditionSoftcover28 pages140 x 210 mm
Support Independent Type is a book about the new culture of type specimens, their impact on design and typographic culture at large. It’s a manifesto for independent type foundries showcasing...
*This book is written in French* On Photography in Lebanon is a book in which 40 contributors share their perspectives on photography in Lebanon, evoking its equally numerous forms of existence....
'We have few things that travel continents with us as familial practises. We have recipes and textiles, crocheted doilies and Majok beads, and we have photo albums. Some faces in...
“I am walking down the street.Everything looks frozen.I walk fast to avoid the boredom of the landscape.A sense of nausea comes up. The kind of nausea from having walked through...
Swallow (Fáinleog), Birr, County Offaly. Swallows winter in southern Africa, and fly up to 10,000 kilometers to spend their Summer in Ireland. They feed almost exclusively on insects caught in...
Swallow (Fáinleog), Birr, County Offaly. Swallows winter in southern Africa, and fly up to 10,000 kilometers to spend their Summer in Ireland. They feed almost exclusively on insects caught in flight....
Swarm Zine is a multidisciplinary zine based in Drogheda, Louth. Swarm is focused on promoting upcoming independent artists, documenting local scenes, and bringing lesser known music history to the surface....
‘I wanted to do something so absolutely different, and physical, and in a certain way, kind of ill-conceived… I took my camera and went underwater in a bunch of pools....
Over the past 4 years artist Vanessa Daws and curator Rosie Hermon have been working on Swimming a Long Way Together a project inspired by the 20th century pioneering swimmer Mercedes...
Eva Vitkute is a Dublin-based multidisciplinary creative whose grungy, textural visuals draw from alternative subcultures and personal memories. Her work has been featured in independent publications, created graphics for bands,...
Symbols play an integral role in almost all branding programmes. This book explores the visual language of symbols according to their most basic element: form. Over 1,300 symbols from all...
A fanzine printed in Risograph in 2 colors (red and black) about a visual research on the work of Libri Finti Clandestini & 5X Lettepress, on the occasione of the...
Tabriz to Shiraz is the major new book project by Melbourne-based photographer Sarah Pannell. The publication draws on a vibrant series of photographs taken during her travels through Iran in 2016 and...
TACTICAL MAGIC publication edited by Kerry Guinan for TULCA 2019. Included in the publication is a specially commissioned essay by Pádraic E. Moore titled: Art and Magick in the 21st...
Titled after Soft Cell's version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense...
TAIPEI; a solo long-form project by Yemeni American artist Ibi Ibrahim. Roaming through foreign streets in the island’s capital, Ibrahim’s extrinsic eye lingers on corners of mundane quietude. The act of archiving...
Finnish artist Maria Lax explores the ideas of home, memory and place. Returning to her hometown after many years abroad, Lax realised that the place she once knew no longer...
Note: This is a publication part of the New Irish Works series. Eanna de Freine’s already published book is available here. Tales from Beneath the Arches project is a visual exploration...
‘Talking about Photobooks’ gives an insight in the history of the photobook medium, its relationship to architecture and artificial intelligence, and the many roles the photobook can play in art...
Tangier Island is home to the Chesapeake Bay’s isolated community of “watermen,” who have lived off crab fishing since the mid-nineteenth century. The island is sinking and shrinking at an...
Taratine is the first US monograph by acclaimed Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota. Highly regarded for his technical and aesthetic kinships with the avant-garde Mono-ha movement of the ‘60s and with...
Tarraingíonn Scéal Scéal Eile (One Story Leads to Another) is a photobook which aims to visually represent stories of Irish folklore and mythology.It does so in a lyrical and engaging...
The expression “speak out” in Chinese is fā shēng, which literally means “to produce sound”. It often has a vital social component, but at the same time emphasises an immediate choice...
Teasing Typography by graphic designer Juliane Nöst is a book that, with its logical structure and rebellious results, opens up new views of the world of boundary-pushing typography. How does...
Abigail O’Brien’s Temperance is a cauldron of brimful of complexities, contradictions and dualities set in the context of an iconic Donegal sweet factory. This photobook was created after the artist...
Lauren Noelle Oliver (b. 1992, Queens) is a New York City-based artist exploring form and the human body. She attended the High School of Fashion Industries in Manhattan and holds...
Ten Exhibits presents a body of work dealing with the relationship between language, image and location using the lingo of forensic photography. The project consists of evidence collected at exhibition...
Juri Velt explores potential scenarios emerging with the disappearance of a segment of society in a mountain town. Three tales unfold in the voids left by its departure, unravelling the...
Terra is a personal exploration of the image culture of 'Ireland's largest motor and classifieds website' DoneDeal.ie. As the author becomes engrossed by found imagery of cars, farm machinery, animals...
The sixth issue of Terrible People presents a special focus on the cacophony that life can be. What would this world be without the sweet sounds of music? More and more...
Culture, Society, Money & ShitThe seventh issue presents a brand new design and takes a deep dive into the chaos of cash and capital. Because we couldn’t help but wonder:...
If you’ve ever wondered why people do stupid things, you’re not alone. Terrible People magazine explores the ‘dark side’ of human nature through essays, illustration and photography. Terrible People's fifth...
Please note: we only post unframed prints. For framed purchases, free Click-and-Collect is available from The Library Project and Dublin delivery only. See further shipping information below.Little Red Mask2023Lino Block Print14...
Please note: we only post unframed prints. For framed purchases, free Click-and-Collect is available from The Library Project and Dublin delivery only. See further shipping information below.Sun King2023Lino Block Print21 x...
Please note: we only post unframed prints. For framed purchases, free Click-and-Collect is available from The Library Project and Dublin delivery only. See further shipping information below.The Forgotten God of Memories2024Lino...
Please note: we only post unframed prints. For framed purchases, free Click-and-Collect is available from The Library Project and Dublin delivery only. See further shipping information below.The Lost God2024Lino Block Print21...
Please note: we only post unframed prints. For framed purchases, free Click-and-Collect is available from The Library Project and Dublin delivery only. See further shipping information below.The Veil of Mephisto2024Lino Block...
Please note: we only post unframed prints. For framed purchases, free Click-and-Collect is available from The Library Project and Dublin delivery only. See further shipping information below.What’s Inside?2024Lino Block Print21 x...
Tessie is a photobook inspired by the personal stories of a woman who was 102 years old. Page by page, portrait by portrait, one is drawn into a biographical collage...
Shaken by her mother’s illness, Charlotte Mano has initiated a photographic series staging their daily life into micro-fictions. A response to transform these moments together and celebrate their complicity when...
Printed in a a premium off-white shade uncoated paper and board with a laid finish.Published by PhotoIrelandIncludes blank white envelopeA6300 gsm paper.
A decade of rapid change caught by two of Ireland's premier photographers, The Lensmen. The 1960s: Ireland in Pictures covers everything from the visits of President Kennedy and The Beatles, to...
The 1Shanthiroad Cookbook brings together a collection of recipes from the community kitchen of 1Shanthiroad Studio/Gallery, compiled and edited by the space's founding director, Suresh Jayaram. Featuring recipes from over...
Published in 2021 on the occasion of LAXART’s 'The Absolute Right to Exclude: Reflections on and Implications of Cheryl Harris’ “Whiteness as Property”', a Cassandra Press exhibition. Cassandra Press was...
An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs – featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. Most of us...
The Air from Other Planets introduces an architecture built and controlled by amplifying and designing the energy within our electromagnetic, thermodynamic, acoustic, and chemical environment. This approach to design exchanges...
The white cubical house, the vernacular architecture in the Aegean Archipelago, knows no author. Its capacity to resist harsh climatic and topographic circumstances has been improved and adjusted through time...
Christodoulos Makris’ second full collection, blends painstaking poetic craft with the accidental hazards of found text and overheard sample. As challenging as it is accessible, these poems comment wittily yet...
The aftermath of the Covid restrictions, mental problems, being confronted with the influx of people with a different background and culture, the alienation of ourselves and of others, not being...
The Arsenic Eaters investigates the widespread historical belief that the consumption of arsenic, generally known to be a deadly poison, is beneficial to one’s health. Accordingly, many ‘poison eaters’ were...
In just half a century of growth, the art fair industry has transformed the art market. Now, for the first time, art market journalist Melanie Gerlis tells the story of...
Francesca Woodman made her first mature photographs at the age of thirteen and went on to create a body of work that has been critically acclaimed for its singularity of...
First published in 1986, Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes...
The second book from Coracle of William Minor’s poems, after 'tree on the outside' from 2010. Here, by conjecture and statement surrounding the artist’s life and work, he presents an interior...
Aggressively rebounding after recessions and the pandemic, sprawling landscapes of tourism in the Mediterranean continue to build upon the iconic spatial typology of sea & sun vacationing: the beach. But...
The Beginning The End is a collection of quotes taken from 212 classic and b-fiction books, and involves writing one book with two parts: The Beginning and The End. The...
-Suitable for ages 10 and up- A colourful and insightful introduction to the lives of the world’s most renowned and inspirational artists. This informative book invites young readers to discover...
To impair the racial ordering of the world, The Black Technical Object introduces the history of statistical analysis and “scientific” racism into research on machine learning. Computer programming designed for...
In 1993 an author buried a golden sculpture— the Chouette d’Or (Golden Owl)—and released a book with eleven allusive clues as to its whereabouts somewhere in France. Nearly 30 years later,...
The Blood and Body is a collection of poetry by multidisciplinary artist Nubia Yasin. Family photos, surreal illustrations, and Yasin’s own unique voice as a self described First Generation Somali-Southern...
Publication accompanying the exhibition The Blue Rooms at the City Assembly House, September 2023.The Blue Rooms is a series of projected images in domestic rooms in houses in Dublin City,...
The Book of Black captures the art and aesthetics of the Gothic in contemporary arts, photography and visual culture. The book celebrates renowned artists such Mat Collishaw, The Chapman Brothers, Tim...
A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetry. Beguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal flights of imagination, The Book...
Over the summer of 2021, writer and artist Nathan O'Donnell spent several weeks on the Tipperary shoreline of Lough Derg, exploring its history, ecology, and topography and gathering stories about...
'Amongst the millions of palm trees in Los Angeles there is one that stands out: The Exposition Park Palm Tree. Having been moved three times within its lifetime, the palm...
18In the work of Erica Van Horn, books collect and transform remnants, remembrances, remainders and reminders. From fragments that might otherwise be forgotten, she makes new inventories and series in...
The Brand Book provides a straightforward and practical guide to the fundamentals of brands and branding, enabling anyone in business to create their own powerful brand. Entertainingly written in jargon-free...
At last the mighty task is done;Resplendent in the western sun These are the first lines of a poem by Joseph B. Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge....
The Bright Plain contains two short stories by Michelle Dooley Mahon; ‘The Deacon’ and ‘The Meadow of Women’, in which ritual devotions are placed in contemporary contexts. She writes of...
Edited from 25 years of work (1979–2005), The British Landscape is a collation of John Davies’ revealing landscapes. Rich in detail and narrative, and contrasting scenes of nature apparently untouched by humans...
The Canadians playfully and informatively re-imagines one of the most revered photobooks of the 20th century, Robert Frank’s The Americans. The source for the imagery is the print archive of...
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a...
Our present is defined by contemporaneity—the interconnection of heterogeneous times, histories, and temporalities. These many and various times do not merely exist in parallel with one another, simultaneously. Rather, they interconnect...
In the Alto Tajo Valley, one of the most depopulated areas in Europe, and dominated by wilderness, one can sense the age-old journey humankind took since the darkness of time....
There is nothing so expressive as the eyes of animals … which seem objectively to mourn that they are not human – Theodor W. Adorno In her afterword, Camilla Flodin...
In this groundbreaking work, Ariella Azoulay thoroughly revises our understanding of the ethical status of photography. It must, she insists, be understood in its inseparability from the many catastrophes of...
Ireland is an island surrounded by ocean, with a high percentage of its population living in the coastal zone and has often been referred to as an “island nation”. The...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
Challenging Institutionalization explores the heterogeneous processes of PhD and postdoc supervision in the arts to formulate shared horizons. The publication is structured around a series of lectures and conversations that took...
What parallels are there between a human pranayama practitioner and a migratory bird in heavily datafied environments? And what can they tell us about the need to reorient our...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
With the demise of Kodachrome film in 2009, the colour palette that in many ways defined an era also disappeared. The 200+ Kodachrome slides selected by Ed Jones and Timothy...
From Brutalist blocks to Modernist towers, this book is a visual celebration of 68 of London’s most iconic council estates, reminding us of the pride, thought and innovation that went...
No one doubts Queen Victoria would have loved Colombia. She was known to suffer from orchid delirium and appointed an official Royal orchid expert whose name was Frederick Sanders. The...
An updated edition of this essential practical handbook for all those involved in, or studying the dynamic field of curating. From pitching your ideas and writing loan requests to working...
In The Curatorial Condition, Beatrice von Bismarck considers the field of activity and knowledge that relates to the exhibiting of art and culture. The curatorial, in her analysis, is a...
Catalina Lozano, born in Bogotá in 1979, is a Colombian curator and independent writer based in Mexico City. Analysing colonial narratives and deconstructing the perceived progress of modernity have forcefully...
In The Curious History of Irish Dogs, David Blake Knox tells the remarkable stories of each of the nine breeds, and reveals how they have become inextricably linked to...
Danielle Mericle’s The Dark Wood explores broad questions of history and our collective ability to document and learn from the past. Through intertwined images of abandoned Greco-Roman casts, an ancient...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern...
In her essay The Dematerialization of Art, Lucy Lippard presented evidence that art might be entering a phase of pure intellectualism, the result of which could be the complete disappearance...
In 1969, shortly after moving to Detroit, Lorraine and Fredy Perlman and a group of kindred spirits purchased a printing press from a defunct militant printer and the Detroit Printing...
The Print Handbook is a friendly guide for all those tricky bits in design. It's packed full of examples, handy tools, charts and information. It helps you produce perfect print projects. Unlike all...
Michael Scott’s Áras Mhic Dhiarmada and Busáras is one of the most important modernist buildings in Ireland. Built between 1947 and 1953, it was intended to be a bus station...