When you are driving into a parking space, have you ever turn your attention to the parking structure itself? Is it beautiful or ugly at first sight? Is the design drivers-oriented or undesirable? The parking system obsolete or fashionable, energy-saving, even environmental-friendly? To the simplest, is this resting room for your car really a “park” for cars & a feast for your eyes?
Most of us may have never thought of these before opening this book. It’s a collection of modern parking facilities of cause; while at the same time, the projects in this book will definitely give you a new viewpoint towards the word “parking”: Brooks + Scarpa gives you a parking garage full of art; HOK shows a prototype for sustainable garages; 1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron has become a landmark of Miami Beach; ZAHA HADID encourages people to leave their cars outside the city in specially designed car parks, and then take a tram to the more inner parts of the city Strasbourg…
It’s not merely about parking; it’s about idea and life.
