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4. Collins Park Parking Garage
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
Surrounded by the Bass Museum of Art, the Miami City Ballet,
and the Miami Beach Regional Library, the Collins Park Garage
occupies a prime spot in the city's Art Deco arts and culture district.
Completed in 2021, the 516-car structure reflects its context
with a perforated aluminum panel system that wraps three sides
and supports a crossword-style matrix of names of buildings,
people, events, and places connected to the neighborhood and
the city's history. The names emerged from a community project
that gathered ideas from local residents, artists, historians, institutions,
and other stakeholders.
A new pedestrian concourse, equipped with benches and
shade trees, connects the garage to the museum and adjacent
Collins Park, a green space that plays host to events for Art Basel
Miami and other fairs. The design-build team included KVC Constructors
of Miami Shores, Florida; design architect Shulman +
Associates of Miami; and architect of record Wolfberg Alvarez &
Partners of Coral Gables.
5. Cornerstone
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
The Cornerstone building at the University of Kentucky combines
parking for more than 900 cars with a gaming lounge, an
esports arena that has 100 theater-style seats, and a food hall
with stalls devoted to local businesses. Students and campus
visitors alike can reserve gaming equipment to play when computers
are not in use for classes. Outdoor seating for diners
helps activate the street. A flexible multi-use space between the
food hall and gaming lounge provides unstructured educational
space in a lofty area with garage-style doors that can be rolled
up in good weather.
The designers-the Lexington, Kentucky office of Sherman
Carter Barnhart Architects-added the structure to an existing
parking garage and placed a lightwell between the two to
enhance security as well as to help illuminate the interiors. A
55-foot-high (17 m) digital media wall at the street intersection
announces university events. Completed in 2020, the building
resulted from a public/private partnership between the university
and Signet Real Estate Group of Jacksonville, Florida.
6. IJboulevard Underwater Bike
Parking
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
Given the popularity of cycling in the Netherlands, it comes
as no surprise that bike storage facilities once cluttered the
backside of Amsterdam Central Station. Enter local firm VenhoevenCS
architecture+urbanism, with construction company
Van Hattum en Blankevoort of Vianen, the Netherlands, and
local landscape architecture firm DS. Together, they created an
underwater facility with room for more than 4,000 bicycles.
The parking structure's roof serves as a new walkway and
gathering place, with areas to sit and take in views of the river
IJ.
Completed in 2023, IJboulevard occupies a prefabricated
concrete structure that helps prevent boats from crashing into
the quay. Beneath the water, bio huts, coconut mats, porous
concrete, and wood provide habitat for aquatic plants. Ramps
allow cyclists to glide in from ground level. Stairwells incorporate
extensive glazing to bring natural light to the interior,
which is column free and indicates open stalls by using sensors
and green lights.
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