1111 Lincoln Road
Parking garages are often nothing more than essential eyesores. We Americans love our cars, and you can pry them from our cold, dead fingers. But they are heavy, so garages need to be strong enough to hold hundreds, sometimes thousands of them, hence why they’re ugly and thick with opaque, barren facades barricading the shame of what they hold inside. They are the architectural equivalent of beasts of burden. Or as the New York Times more eloquently put it: "The Grim Afterthought of American Design.”
But to its credit, Miami gets them done right! 1111 Lincoln Road is one of the earliest contributions to Miami’s recent surge in cultural relevance. It was built in 2010 and designed by renowned architects at Herzog & De Meuron with landscape architecture provided by Raymond Jungles with the intention to revitalize the western part of Miami Beach’s historic Lincoln Road as a hub for retail and office space.
This striking structure redefines parking garages with its open-air, sculptural design featuring cantilevered concrete slabs and dynamic angles. The design mimics a house of cards, one of the simplest, lightest, and transparent forms we can imagine. But this is no delicate structure. The majority of the construction materials are slabs of reinforced concrete traditionally used for such buildings. They’re constructed around buttresses and cantilevers.
A blend of functionality and urban art, the garage exemplifies modernist and brutalist architectural influences in the heart of Miami Beach, whose efforts at promoting and preserving architecture I deeply admire.
Parking garages are often nothing more than essential eyesores. We Americans love our cars, and you can pry them from our cold, dead fingers. But they are heavy, so garages need to be strong enough to hold hundreds, sometimes thousands of them, hence why they’re ugly and thick with opaque, barren facades barricading the shame of what they hold inside. They are the architectural equivalent of beasts of burden. Or as the New York Times more eloquently put it: "The Grim Afterthought of American Design.”
But to its credit, Miami gets them done right! 1111 Lincoln Road is one of the earliest contributions to Miami’s recent surge in cultural relevance. It was built in 2010 and designed by renowned architects at Herzog & De Meuron with landscape architecture provided by Raymond Jungles with the intention to revitalize the western part of Miami Beach’s historic Lincoln Road as a hub for retail and office space.
This striking structure redefines parking garages with its open-air, sculptural design featuring cantilevered concrete slabs and dynamic angles. The design mimics a house of cards, one of the simplest, lightest, and transparent forms we can imagine. But this is no delicate structure. The majority of the construction materials are slabs of reinforced concrete traditionally used for such buildings. They’re constructed around buttresses and cantilevers.
A blend of functionality and urban art, the garage exemplifies modernist and brutalist architectural influences in the heart of Miami Beach, whose efforts at promoting and preserving architecture I deeply admire.
Parking garages are often nothing more than essential eyesores. We Americans love our cars, and you can pry them from our cold, dead fingers. But they are heavy, so garages need to be strong enough to hold hundreds, sometimes thousands of them, hence why they’re ugly and thick with opaque, barren facades barricading the shame of what they hold inside. They are the architectural equivalent of beasts of burden. Or as the New York Times more eloquently put it: "The Grim Afterthought of American Design.”
But to its credit, Miami gets them done right! 1111 Lincoln Road is one of the earliest contributions to Miami’s recent surge in cultural relevance. It was built in 2010 and designed by renowned architects at Herzog & De Meuron with landscape architecture provided by Raymond Jungles with the intention to revitalize the western part of Miami Beach’s historic Lincoln Road as a hub for retail and office space.
This striking structure redefines parking garages with its open-air, sculptural design featuring cantilevered concrete slabs and dynamic angles. The design mimics a house of cards, one of the simplest, lightest, and transparent forms we can imagine. But this is no delicate structure. The majority of the construction materials are slabs of reinforced concrete traditionally used for such buildings. They’re constructed around buttresses and cantilevers.
A blend of functionality and urban art, the garage exemplifies modernist and brutalist architectural influences in the heart of Miami Beach, whose efforts at promoting and preserving architecture I deeply admire.
