Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us these photographs of the recently-opened car park in Miami by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron.
Called 1111 Lincoln Road, the building incorporates 300 parking spaces.
Eleven shops and three restaurants are located at ground level, with further shopping on the fifth floor and another restaurant on the roof.
All photographs ©Nelson Garrido/1111Lincoln Road Shot Reprinted with permission from MBeach1, LLLP
The information below is from the developers:
Envisioned by Robert Wennett and designed by Herzog & de Meuron, 1111 Lincoln Road represents the collaboration of renowned architects, landscape architects, artists and designers to create a unique shopping, dining, residential and parking experience for Miami’s residents and visitors.
Situated at the gateway to Lincoln Road’s pedestrian promenade, 1111’s mix of exclusive, internationally diverse retailers will once again restore this long-dormant strip to its former position as the city’s premier retail location.
Constructed of concrete and glass, 1111 Lincoln Road is described by architect Jacques Herzog as pure Miami Beach – “all muscle without cloth”.
Each level of the sculptural parking facility is filled with natural light, creating successively striking vistas of the city.
At its base, the retail spaces offer unobstructed access to a newly transformed public space.
1111 encompasses 40,000 square feet for 11 street-level retail concept stores and three restaurants, as well as a uniquely-situated 5th floor retail store.
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April 19th, 2010 at 10:41 am
uuuau
so, they could charge an entrance fee too———-!
i’ve never seen in my whole life a car park with sculptures
makes us wonder a lot
April 19th, 2010 at 11:12 am
bellissimo!!!!!!!!!! assolutamente!
April 19th, 2010 at 11:42 am
like the portugueses “calçada” (=
April 19th, 2010 at 11:42 am
This looks amazing , so unusual !
it ‘ d be great to see more pics ….
April 19th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Star !
April 19th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
manifique!
April 19th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
These guys can do no wrong!
April 19th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
I would park my caravan here and stay for vacation
April 19th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
SO NICE!:)
April 19th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Nice concrete structure.
April 19th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
I see this everyday. It is nothing special. In fact I think it does more harm then good.
April 19th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
I think its nice, but it needs some stucco on the bottom of the slab for daytime … the concrete at the photo before last is not a nice one at all.. at night the lights give a clean effect
April 19th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
And the installation by Monika Sosnowska. Looks perfect
April 19th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
sorry Jimmy, you have no eye. This building has some of the most beuitiful concrete moments I’ve seen in contemporary architecture. This is a great addition to lincoln road.
April 19th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Parking has never been sexier!
April 19th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
@jimmy, I highly doubt you see mixed use parking garages incorporating public programming at grade everyday in Miami. In fact I would guess you would be hard pressed to find a parking garage with public programming at grade anywhere in Miami. You can dislike the aesthetic but at least read the program brief before saying it is, “doing more harm than good.”
April 19th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
It’s amazing, that a car park, can be so celebrated!
Great job!
April 19th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
A car park is not a reason to celebrate. This concrete mass is a source polluter and is a failed attempt at beautifying the ugliness of the automobile. I’m a big fan of Herzog and de Meuron but they failed to impress me on this one. Is this the future? Cities dedicated to the automobile, with neglect to the human element? Corb feared this day would come. Let’s get back in touch with the human, the served element of architecture.
April 19th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
In contrast to what Danillo said, I think it’s a great move to mix other programs into
inhuman car park , and twist it to a new pleasure space.
April 19th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
herzog and demeuron are trying to beat frank gehry for most ridiculous form making and worthless work, and it looks like they may well win…
April 19th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
i will second on what Danillo said. but will look at the brighter side of sometime someday this can be easily converted into a livable space.
i wonder when will architects start resisting to the developers wills?
April 19th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
I never mentioned the program. Im talking aesthetics, and just because its the Herzog and De Meuron boys, most people jump all over it. It stands out in a bad way, and pays no attention to its surrounds. Look at the horrible connection to the neighboring building. Might as well jump from slab to through a window like Jason Bourne.
Miami is sexy, Miami is vibrant and a massive dull concrete structure is getting praise??? It looks like an unfinished studio model. The parking garage down the street that that is covered in a green living wall is much more attractive.
Just wait and see when one of the many drunks in Miami run right through those tension cable barriers.
April 19th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Corb feared cities dedicated to the automobile!? What corb are you referring to? Get back in touch with the human? What do you think are driving the automobiles? Really, this is a lot of silly talk. An impressive work, making magic out of the everyday.
April 19th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
That structure is a thing of beauty, it looks so frail
April 19th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
corb proposed uglier monsters. and he proposed hundreds of them!! this is tame in comparison.
America’s booming car population and the widespread ugliness that this has produced is not the architects fault. give them credit for altering the paradigm of a parking structure.
Atleast the vertical repititiveness of the conventional parking stack is cleverly resolved, visually atleast. I think this is a fine example of minimal and intelligent means acheiving a far reaching solution.
why do some commentators feel compelled to be perpetually cynical? self styled critics.
April 19th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
this is a great concrete structure and a beautifull realisation. Everyone who helped building it has done a great job..
@plots: you’re very right
@ danillo: since automobiles are part of society, these things are needed.. if the automobile dissapears they can put glass in it and have a great automobile-museum ;)
April 19th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
@plots… actually there are a fair number of mixed use parking garages in miami and miami beach. most are uninspired at best … but they are not at all uncommon. arquitectonica has done at least two that i can think of off the top of my head.
@Danillo… this garage replaced an existing parking lot. an UGLY parking lot. also, a street on the south side of the parking garage was re-purposed as a pedestrian-only area, one that was landscaped interestingly. (this was one of the trade offs made when the garage was approved.) miami beach remains fairly pedestrian friendly city because it has a large amount of parking and a lot of street level commerce. people are encouraged to park and then walk. i think the city is doing an okay job of balancing cars vs pedestrians. now if they could ONLY come up with a decent public transportation system!!!
April 19th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
beauty
April 19th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
I fundamentally disagree with dedicating buildings and city blocks to just car parking but if we have to put up with them they might as well be beautiful.. maybe it can be converted to a better use in the future.
April 19th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
I love Hertzog and de Meuron’s work, too, but this project leaves me cold. Maybe it’s because of the horribly bad concrete work. All of those beautiful cantilevered planes that are meant to be viewed from below look like nothing more than an unfinished construction site.
I’m a big fan of exposing the flaws in raw concrete, but in this case it just looks like shoddy craftsmanship. If you want to see raw concrete done right, visit Japan!
April 19th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Danillo, adapt to the times..! Specially in USA, the car is something we use everyday, and the sooner we get to learn to live with it, the better. Finally architects are involved in this type of architecture, I think it is great.
April 19th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
A carparking building. Perhaps better than most, but it’s still just a carparking building…taking up precious space for the car.
April 19th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
“all muscles without cloth”
what a wonderful yet imaginative description! totally impressed!
April 19th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
It would have been nice to see a little contrast somewhere… or to see some of the building it connects to incorporated in the structure. It does have some really nice moments and the concrete is beautiful but the elevation is far too uniform.
April 20th, 2010 at 12:36 am
I don’t have a problem with this building atall, If only more car parks were designed with more love like this one, great idea’s in there.
April 20th, 2010 at 1:57 am
waste of space and electric energy
April 20th, 2010 at 3:25 am
@Danillo and Jimmy, I think for just being a parking lot is great ! look at the simplicity of the structure, it speaks for itself.
April 20th, 2010 at 3:42 am
@Danillo, so you think we should force prople not to drive? If people used to drive, why is automobile not a human element?
April 20th, 2010 at 5:35 am
Corb welcomed it dude
April 20th, 2010 at 9:42 am
@Danillo
It’s very strange to consider the typology taboo. Even when the cities are dedicated to humans, space in between cities isn’t. A car park isn’t any different from a train-station. In the end, there are more people in it than cars. Why this typology does not deserve architecture has alwast puzzled me.
April 20th, 2010 at 11:16 am
Very good design both structure and lighting!
I would like to park a caravan there too for holidays.
Bravo!
April 20th, 2010 at 11:49 am
The pictures don’t do this structure justice.
As far as fitting into the surround of Miami Beach, nothing has since Collins built the first bridge to Miami Beach. This structure though, has adapted perfectly to what Lincoln Road is and has given visiting pedestrians a reason to walk to the west end of road.
April 20th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Why always bring up Corbusier as if he is some untouchable messiah? I think his head was so far up his ass with socially prescriptive ideals that most of buildings are eye sores – I’m sure I’m ‘missing the point’, but at least Herzog and de Meuron try and create architecture that is actually eye pleasing, I hope a micro renaissance is coming and the dark ages of the Corbusier indoctrination is over
April 20th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
a car park is obliviously a great chance to create a sculptural building, because there is few technical demands to the facade. Great work, more car parks at this architectural level! But Tokamashi landscape parking, is still my favorite.
April 20th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
@pop “i wonder when will architects start resisting to the developers wills?”
around the same time that things like having a job become unecessary?
April 20th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
HdM always look great on photos. I have seen most of their projects live, yet even my favorite ones were quite dull in reality (Schaulager). Revisiting the photos however, their projects always look really great – Photo Architecture. I hope this one is different from my previous experiences.
April 20th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
why do we expect HdeM to create a smashing piece each time? they are only human guys, and frankly, considering the rather mundane and potential ugliness of the program, they shot the shit!
April 20th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
Of course a pretty car park is better than an ugly one, or, in some cases, an empty, flat parking lot, it’s just that many people are understandably sick of living at a scale that is more tailored to car dimensions and needs than people. They’re starting to feel less free with their cars and more encumbered by them and their voracious need for land and concrete. But expecting architects to do anything other than produce what society is currently asking from them is asking too much. Architects aren’t meant to be the decision makers for things like whether how we mix cars, pedestrians, and public transport, so their exasperation with that kind of criticism is warranted.
However, I think a train station is very different than a car park. For one thing, you wait in a train station. But I digress. My only reaction to the images themselves is to wonder if giving all that extra headroom on some of the car decks is expensive? They could be two level lofts one day I suppose, for those of us posters who dream of carless society.
April 21st, 2010 at 5:56 am
A new type of church worshiping the car. Let’s hope it can be turned into apartments when the black juice runs out.
April 21st, 2010 at 9:25 am
Conceptually very clever!! Every parking structure that tries to do something different invariably has a solution of covering it up in some fancy patterned cladding.
To take a mental leap and play with the primary elements and make them sculptural, and highly visable is surely a structured parking first. They get my vote!
April 21st, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Recently I run into architectural designs that remind me the method of the COPY-PAST.
I think Herzog & de Meuron’s project is a good example of ” inspiration Awareness”, the Ten Commandments architects should be aware of, while getting inspired….
You are invited to visit my blog ARCHIDIALOG.COM, a place where I trace the inspiration sources of gifted architects. You will find their more than 70 exemplas of build projects, and what I think were their sources of inspiration….
April 21st, 2010 at 4:41 pm
interesting comments all around,
but essentially , this is a ‘ millefeuille” a traditional french cake.
The concept was already used by Chipperfield in Spain.
still, it works.
April 21st, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Love it!! Herzog and de Meuron have done it again……
April 22nd, 2010 at 3:01 am
Looks like they copied MVRDV.
:P
April 22nd, 2010 at 11:49 am
@ plots:
“I highly doubt you see mixed use parking garages incorporating public programming at grade everyday in Miami.”
- What about the 7th Street Parking by Scott Robins Companies?
http://www.robinscompanies.com/parking.html
At least that example tries to hide the ugliness of the automobile behind a floral façade, or “planter filled with cars,” as they put it. It’s a step in the right direction, an attempt at beautifying the needs for a developer-driven vehicular filing cabinet. Furthermore, nothing about Herzog & de Meuron’s piece pays respect to the Art Deco typology of South Beach. It’s far too minimalistic, and can be sited in literally any first world city.
April 22nd, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Looks a little slapdash to me and the steel wire retainers scare me. A car would rip right through those if out of control.
April 22nd, 2010 at 7:19 pm
one big brazilian “favela”…
April 23rd, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Its too bad they didn’t build this parking garage in what should have always been open space in front of the new world symphony building by gehry. (just down the street from this building)
Instead of the nasty noncontributing parking garage that the city dropped down like a wart in front of the gehry building.
April 25th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
I worked on one of the retail spaces on the ground floor and it is so good to see the final project through a proper lens. This really turns around that end of Lincoln road!
April 28th, 2010 at 6:16 am
eh… I’m usually a H & dM fan, but I’m not buying it. The vertical support is really clunky and childish. Maybe its true that the typology turns me off as well, but judged just as a building, I still don’t like it. It looks like a strange brutal pagoda thing.
Plus, just cause they’re H&D doesn’t mean its good. Also, to Bozo, just cause Corb was all about the automobile (like the futurists, etc.) doesn’t make it a good idea. He had some pretty lousy ideas as well. Even old FLW had a car worship thing going on. Still doesn’t make it right.
May 1st, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Easily the most STUNNING parking garage I’ve ever seen in my life.
This shows what great design can bring to even the most mundane of structures.
This is a true inspiration.
May 3rd, 2010 at 12:21 am
Beautiful but flawed. How is “making it beautiful” the answer to the parking garage? We have a more fundamental problem here: architecture was and is never involved in the decision-making process that leads to this solution for the city. Even the highest caliber architects cannot escape the politics of the city. So revel on in the beauty, it’ll never pass as a viable solution and speaks to the impotence of architecture in the broader context of society.
May 5th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
As a synthesis of engineering and aesthetics, i think this parking garage speaks to the nature of the automobile more than any other i can think of. It is stylish, and displays its style behind (or in front of) brilliant engineering. And it displays cars!
May 11th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Best parking lot ever! For a great architect, the building program is not a problem at all !
June 18th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
just amazing. incredible positive and negative space created by the lighting in the elevation shot
June 21st, 2010 at 6:31 pm
I recently completed an extensive photo shoot of the garage and have finally processed the photos. Link to photo gallery for your enjoyment:
http://www.critiquethis.us/2010/06/21/1111-lincoln-road-by-herzog-de-meuron-the-beauty-of-parking/
July 11th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
cross sections please….
July 11th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Everything now can be tranformer in spetacle!