FRPO drapes metal screen over concrete car park and co-working space in Mexico
Estación San José is a concrete car park and co-working space topped by a public park, designed by Spanish architecture studio FRPO for Toluca de Lerdo in Mexico. More
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Billund car park covered with roads from Lego play sets
Danish architecture studio CEBRA has designed the facades of a car park for Lego in Billund, Denmark, which features a road layout based on the toy company's City road plates. More
Brooks + Scarpa drapes wavy metal screen over Seattle transit station
California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has wrapped a Seattle transit facility in an undulated, blue aluminium screen that was influenced by a dance performance. More
London's Welbeck Street car park could be saved with alternative design by JAA
Architecture firm JAA has developed a proposal that would see a celebrated brutalist-era car park in London preserved – rather than demolished to build a new hotel. More
"Stunning" car park will be demolished to make way for Eric Parry-designed hotel
The demolition of a brutalist-era car park behind London's Oxford Street has been approved to make way for a hotel designed by Eric Parry Architects. More
Layered cladding emphasises stacked arrangement of L'eau Design's mixed-use block in Seoul
The stacked volumes that make up this multipurpose building in Seoul's Gangnam district are clad in various materials and diminish in size like the components of a nested Russian doll. More
Elliott + Associates wraps Chesapeake car park in white fins
A+Awards: vertical fins clad this Architizer A+Award-winning car park in Oklahoma City to disguise its function by day but reveal the vehicles inside at night. More
OMA completes trio of buildings for Miami Beach cultural district
The New York office of Dutch firm OMA, headed by Shohei Shigematsu, has completed a further two buildings at a new cultural district in Miami Beach to join the Faena Forum cultural centre. More
Enormous helix-shaped ramps lead into Amsterdam car park
A pair of 30-metre spiralling ramps provide access to this multi-functional car park in Amsterdam by Dutch studio Benthem Crouwel Architects. More
Haptic adds faceted skin of perforated metal to car park in London's Olympic Park
London studio Haptic has re-clad a utilitarian multi-storey car park in the London 2012 Olympic Park, using triangular metal panels that produce ever-changing patterns of light and shadow (+ slideshow). More
Dune-shaped car park by Royal HaskoningDHV doubles as a flood defence
Curving windows peep above the ground to bring light into this underground car park in South Holland, which is covered in grassy hillocks to replicate a dune landscape (+ slideshow). More
Substance Architecture clads Iowa car park in a golden screen
This multi-storey parking garage in Des Moines, Iowa, by local firm Substance Architecture features a yellow-coloured aluminium screen that permits air flow while blocking views of cars (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid's car park project in Miami Beach will not get built
The late Zaha Hadid's designs for a spiralling car park and public plaza in Miami have been rejected by city officials, five years after the architect was hired for the project. More
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London car park of "sublime beauty" at risk of demolition
A monumental car park building close to London's Oxford Street is being sold, meaning it could now be demolished to make way for a new hotel. More
Europe's biggest robotic car park opens below Scandinavia's largest library
Lödige Industries' automated car park has been installed beneath a library in Denmark, which was designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen (+ movie). More
Carl Turner's Peckham plans will provide spaces for "ordinary people" as well as creatives
A London borough came under fire earlier this month for rejecting plans to transform a car park into 800 creative studios, but architect Carl Turner says his alternative proposal will offer a resource for the entire local community, not just artists. More
Plans for 800 new London art and design studios rejected
A proposal by architects SelgasCano to turn a south London car park into 800 creative workspaces has been rejected by the local council. More
Coloured metal slats and textured concrete panels enclose hospital car park in Spain
Rows of brightly lacquered metal slats wrap the upper levels of this multi-storey car park that serves the maternity and oncology wards of a hospital in A Coruña, Spain. More
Geometric perforations pattern facade of Belgian hospital car park by Abscis Architecten
Perforated metal balustrades wrap the round-edged floorplates of this multi-storey car park designed by Abscis Architecten for a hospital in Ghent, Belgium (+ slideshow). More
Bureau A installs pink marble urinal at Zurich car park
Zurich citizens can now relieve themselves at a pink marble public pissoir, installed at an open-air car park by local architecture firm Bureau A (+ slideshow). More