This is a guest post from Antonina of OpenBuildings - a community-driven and openly editable encyclopaedia of buildings from around the world, and very soon also - www.Clippings.com, a new design-inspiration project by the team behind OpenBuildings.
Parking has been an important issue for cities for as long as the world turns with cars on it. While car parks are a vital public amenity whose lack or insufficiency could make city life as well as city tourism significantly unpleasant, the aesthetic aptitude of these infrastructures in urban context is sometimes questionable. It has become apparent, however, through an exciting line-up of recent thematic projects, that car parks can not only be matched with their urban neighbourhoods, they can in fact become instrumental in reviving them. Thoughtful intervention in their facades, which are the least semantically loaded element in this particular breed of buildings, could yield surprisingly positive effects on cities’ social, environmental and cultural climate.
Aedas: 18 Kowloon East
image: Aedas
image: Aedas
Peter Kunz Architektur: Car Park in Herdern
image: Peter Kunz Architektur
image: Peter Kunz Architektur
Allies and Morrison Architects: Charles Street Car Park
image: Dennis Gilbert / VIEW
image: Dennis Gilbert / VIEW
Mei Architecten en Stedenbouwers: Goblin Parking Garage
image: Jeroen Musch
image: Jeroen Musch
Craig & Karl: 72DP
image: Katherine Lu
image: Katherine Lu
Herzog & De Meuron: 1111 Lincoln Road
image: Nelson Garrido
image: Iwan Baan and MBEACH1
HPP Architects: Parking Garage of the Leipzig Zoo
image: HPP Architects
image: HPP Architects
N+B Architects: Parking Lot in Carros
image: Paul Kozlowski
image: Paul Kozlowski
Arquitectonica: Ballet Valet Parking Garage
image: Dan Forer
image: Dan Forer
Cheungvogl: Shinjuku Gardens Car Park
image: Cheungvogl
image: Cheungvogl
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OpenBuildings is a community-driven and openly editable encyclopaedia of contemporary and conceptual architecture from around the world that exists as a website and application for iPhone, and recently – Android, which enable users to find, learn about and share nearby buildings of architectural merit.
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