Comments on: Helios House: Gas Station of the Future?

By: Mark Dornin

Mark Dornin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:46:57 +0000

does it sun burn?

By: mohsen

mohsen — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:42:23 +0000

i need “helios house site plan”

By: Bill F.

Bill F. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:49:05 +0000

awesome blog

By: L'espresso | Alphabet City » Blog Archive » A parte Santa Monica di Valeria Palermi

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:12:09 +0000

[...] con una pendenza di 45 gradi, e oggi di proprieta’ dell’editore Benedikt Taschen; e la Helios House, perfetto ossimoro losangeleno: una stazione di rifornimento di benzina, che pero’ e’ [...]

By: bdm

bdm — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:21:16 +0000

This is a great gas station and deserves praise for raising consciousness about green energy. It’s not just about the gas, stupid. It’s about human consumption in its totality: Plastic bags, single-use disposable items, driving when you can walk or bike, the lights in your house, buying local and organic instead of packaged and imported, etc. These messages are reinforced at the pump, a message that Americans need to hear more. As far as I’m concerned, this gas station rocks. I only pump from Helios House.

By: nybe

nybe — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:02:58 +0000

BOYCOTT THIS GAS STATION AND BP.

This ugly eyesore does not support the future of energy whatsoever. If they did, they would have green(er) fuels like B99 or E25… but they don’t, so it ain’t green under any stretch of the imagination.

By: Mitch E.

Mitch E. — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:35:05 +0000

I live near this nifty piece of architecture that bills itself as “a little better”. The emphasis really is on the word “little”. I was a frequent customer of the Thrifty gas that used to occupy the same spot. When they closed down the Thrifty gas to construct the new bp I was excited, thinking that the future of alternative fuel stations was finally coming to L.A. the epicenter of the automobile. Being located in the middle of the ultra-chic Westside I thought what a bold statement from one of the worlds largest oil companies. Wrong! As far as I know there are no bp branded stations in the greater Los Angeles area, so this really peaked my interest, the future is hear I thought. Now I will certainly be looking into a Flexfuel, ethanol, biodeisel, car for my next vehicle purchase, maybe even a hydrogen car or car that I could swap in and out a standardized electric battery. Nope, just regular gasoline not even diesel. They wasted an opportunity and gave us the same thing just packaged differently. What a slap in the face as if to say, we recognize the global need for improving energy efficiency but we are not really interested in that, we just want the same antiquated products to look prettier and we want you to “feel” better about using them. I don’t buy my gas from that station in protest, I buy it at the Exxon across the street. A gas station that looks like a Frank Geary inspired H.R. Pufinstuff titanium tree house complete with magic mushroom mood lights, what a waste of talent and money. Save the big bp marketing dollars and build us the next generation of fueling stations with real alternative fuels next time. On a recent trip to Oregon I stumbled upon a real futuristic fueling station with all different grades of ethanol and biodiesel, It also had a real “living roof” on the store part and solar panels on the fuel canopy, organic self serve soda fountain and an array of locally made sustainable foodstuffs and other green products. How hard could it really be to build such a thing? Check out http://www.sqbiofuels.com/ . I call that “a little better” not just a little more colorful.

By: chronicle of wasted time » Office dA–architecture and design

chronicle of wasted time » Office dA–architecture and design — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:54:09 +0000

[...] Office dA’s most outlandish combination of eco-friendly and algorithmic methods is the new Helios House, a LEED-certified BP gas station in Los Angeles. The silvery, multi-faceted form is a notable [...]

By: Stephen Rees

Stephen Rees — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:16:44 +0000

Don’t be fooled by BP’s greenwashing. They have, since getting a new CEO, forgotten about that “Beyond Petroleum” and bought into the Alberta Tar sands with Li Lai Shing’s Husky Oil.

The huge amounts of energy needed to get usable fuel our of the tar sands are one reason why Canada is now a pariah at the greenhouse gas reduction talks

By: Sung

Sung — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:20:04 +0000

nah, all they have is plain ol’ unleaded. interesting marketing strategy by BP, they don’t list the octane ratings. instead they use the terms, “good”, “better”, “best”. BP plans to use this station as a laboratory to roll out alternative fuels in the future. although this could be done anywhere since functionally the station isn’t any different than their others.