Meredith O'Shaughnessy has been awarded third place in the Future Luxury Retail Design Competition with a proposal to repurpose multi-storey car parks in urban settings into luxury retail and entertainment spaces. More
The vertical Future Car Park in China by Daniel Statham Studio is the focus of this video, which shows vehicles being lifted and stacked via a fully automated lift system. More
Architecture firm Daniel Statham Studio has designed a vertical car park in central Hangzhou, China, where cars are stacked using a fully automated lift system. More
The French Senate has approved a bill requiring all large parking lots across France to be topped with solar canopies in the next six years, which are predicted to generate as much energy as 10 nuclear reactors. More
Plants and polished-metal staircases will animate the exterior of the MoLo entrance building and multi-storey car park that Chinese studio MAD is designing for a neighbourhood near Milan, Italy. More
The Florida Building by MAPA is a prefabricated multi-storey car park in Montevideo, Uruguay, topped by a courtyard garden and rooftop terrace. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A pair of 30-metre spiralling ramps provide access to this multi-functional car park in Amsterdam by Dutch studio Benthem Crouwel Architects. More
London studio Haptic has re-clad a utilitarian multi-storey car park in the London 2012Â Olympic Park, using triangular metal panels that produce ever-changing patterns of light and shadow (+ slideshow). More
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
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
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
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
