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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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IwamotoScott and Leong Leong wrap a Miami parking garage in perforated screens
This parking garage in the Miami Design District features a textured facade of perforated metal panels, designed by architecture firms IwamotoScott and Leong Leong, with artist John Baldessari (+ slideshow). More
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Brutalist buildings: Trinity Square car park by Owen Luder
Brutalism: the seven-storey Trinity Square car park in Gateshead, England, was designed by Owen Luder and is the first ill-fated building in our Brutalism series (+ slideshow). More
