Parking Garage

May 29, 2011 9:32 AM

The parking garage at 1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog and de Meuron.
posted by puny human (14 comments total)

Nice. I wish there were more places in the middle of the spectrum between inside and outside.
posted by StickyCarpet at 9:50 AM on May 29, 2011 [2 favorites]

You can have a great party here. You can have a great conference here. You can have a ball. You can have a festival. You can have a revolution.

Powerful words.

Concrete that's been exposed to the elements looks pretty awful after a couple of years. I get the aesthetics of raw concrete but I would really like to see some color on some of that building.

Love the post, the building and the ArchRecordTV youtube channel. Thanks.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 9:51 AM on May 29, 2011 [1 favorite]

"I wouldn’t even think of parking anywhere else when I’m downtown,” said Douglas Sharon, a financial adviser, who steers his gray Ferrari into the garage several times a week.

I have never more strongly wanted to tell a building to go fuck itself than I do right now, but perhaps I'm overreacting.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 9:53 AM on May 29, 2011 [3 favorites]

I wonder if it will prove popular with jumpers ?
posted by Lanark at 9:54 AM on May 29, 2011

I got a chance to see this last year, and it really is a cool structure.

I like the way that the address mimics those arrows you see at the side of parking garages. (On the actual building they are big neon lights that overhang the entrance from the road, but I cant find any images of that.)
posted by painquale at 10:12 AM on May 29, 2011

I think making a parking garage this size beautiful is wrong. They are manifestations of problems within the urban transportation system and deserve to be ugly so we are deterred from building more of them. Ironically, in one of the photos you can see it beside a surface parking lot.

Can anyone find it on street view? This is 1100 Lincoln Road but I can't spot it.
posted by a womble is an active kind of sloth at 10:51 AM on May 29, 2011 [2 favorites]

Ah, too hasty. Here it is under construction.
posted by a womble is an active kind of sloth at 10:52 AM on May 29, 2011

I actually punched the fuck out of this building once. Really let it have it.

Very frustrating.
posted by From Bklyn at 12:06 PM on May 29, 2011

retail spaces include a taschen bookstore, Y3/adidas boutique and nespresso outlet.

WTF what.
posted by Salmonberry at 12:37 PM on May 29, 2011

I actually punched the fuck out of this building once. Really let it have it.

Very frustrating.

I guess that's why they call it Brutalism.
posted by Sys Rq at 2:58 PM on May 29, 2011 [1 favorite]

This is more Populuxe, though. The concrete notwithstanding (!)
posted by tigrefacile at 3:32 PM on May 29, 2011

You can have a great party here. You can have a great conference here. You can have a ball. You can have a festival. You can have a revolution.

Sweet. How many downhill runs can you get in on your longboard before security kicks you out?
posted by arto at 4:17 PM on May 29, 2011

My earlier comment is actually a big candidate for the 'delete comment' button that comes up in MeTa every year or so. Thread-shitters regret. My intention was not to poop in the thread, but to highlight the (to me) silliness of hating a building.

I read about this building in (god, I think it was the New Yorker) about a year ago and didn't get it at all. It's a fucking parking garage - WTF?

The video helps convey all that the dancing around misses. There's other cool shit at that link as well.

Thanks.
posted by From Bklyn at 1:17 AM on May 30, 2011

I was expecting this to be a short film portraying the internal monologue of a giant piece of modernist architecture dimly aware of its lack of place in a post-modern world, but no. Wrong Herzog.
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 4:16 AM on May 30, 2011