In 1930s Chicago – the home of the skyscraper – the only way was up. This revolving “Car Parking Machine” had a valet service that boasted it could recognise and return your Model T within 55 seconds. Up until the 1970s, multi-storey carparks – stacking cars off increasingly congested streets – remained desired, even signature, civic landmarks. However their often inelegant hulks, typically prey to graffiti and petty crime, increasingly became symbols of urban decay and dysfunction. Today much inner city parking has been driven underground – but some recent multi-storey carparks, like Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, might just signal an expressive new renaissance for this building type. I (gk)
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