Canberra’s brutalist bus shelters are so beloved they’ve been turned into earrings and tattoos

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In 1975, Australia’s capital city began installing cylindrical concrete bus shelters that look like someone buried a giant culvert pipe halfway into the sidewalk and cut a door in it. They are brutalist as hell. They are also now considered a beloved cultural icon.

At least 477 of the shelters were purchased and in…