There was a moment when the multistorey car park looked like it was going to be the future of architecture. It was everything that traditional, bourgeois buildings were not. It was the symbol of the new city, geared not towards the individual but to the machine. It was the modernist dream, untainted by history or sentiment; it was to be to the modern age what the great railway stations had been to the age of industry.
Parking garages were never thought of that way, until now. The newest building by starchitects Herzon de Meuron is... a parking garage. And I can't tell you how cool I think it is. A former bank building on Miami's chic Lincoln Road (Note: I've never been to Miami, but Lincoln Road is apprently pretty chic), the building houses swank shops on the ground level and cars up above. I can't help thinking how cool this would be as a concert venue...
Read the full article at Financial Times...
Images by Iwan Baan... who seems to be a pretty cool architectural photographer.
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