Parking Stations As An Architectural Statement

摘要

A common view of parking stations is of ugly buildings that interrupt the urban fabric, and alienate the city from people as much as roadways do. Yet ideas of a ring of car parks 'protecting' the pedestrian environment within a city centre go back at least to Louis Kahn in the post-war period of last centuiy. Although this ideal is seldom realised for whole cities, the car park of a suburban shopping mall serves the same putpose for the environment within the mall. Simon Henley, principal of a London architectural firm and previously shortlisted for UK Young Architect of the Year, has taken a fresh look at this building type along with Sue Barr, whose 568 photographs provide the visual impact of this book.