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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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