Housing at Transit: Berkeley Moves to Comply with New State Zoning Law
Step one: creating a Memorandum of Understanding between BART and Berkeley so they can work together. The MOU will guide Berkeley’s accelerated rezoning of these two parcels.
Creating Infill Developments True To Their Urban Context
in Miami's Little Havana, developer Andrew Frey sidesteps the temptation to go tall in urban infill, opting instead to create new residential buildings that fit the context of their historic neighborhoods.
SocketSite™ | Plans to Convert Podium Parking into Dwelling Units
There are currently 228 parking spaces in the podium of the 227-unit Bay Towers building at 388 Beale Street, the majority of which are tucked away behind the vented semi-circles on the third and fourth floors of the 20-story building which was developed in 1999. But plans to remove 44 of the Bay Tower’s parking […]
“Future-Proofing” Buildings to Account for Autonomous Vehicles
As self-driving vehicles become more ubiquitous, facility designers and owners will need to develop strategies that cover a wide range of possibilities.
We can build our cities for e-commerce, we just need to repurpose our parking lots
They’re dark, desolate, and frequently dirty—it can be hard to think of underground parking garages as anything other than concrete wastelands. But what if these cramped, neglected spaces were actually untapped jewels of real estate?
What if parking garages could have a second life? Design firms like UltraBarrio and Gensler bet on it
Parking garages run rampant, especially in Los Angeles. According to Gensler's co-CEO Andy Cohen there are 500 million parking spaces in the United States. “Think about all that real estate, all that attention to parking, that could be revitalized and reused for the future of our cities.”...
Work, park, live: Inside Cincinnati’s parking garage turned lifestyle
It doesn’t look like much from the outside. But as they say, you can’t always judge a book by its cover. And more interesting design flashes take over inside The Summit, A Dolce Hotel, featuring a
Living in a parking garage? These unique Wichita lofts are the first of their kind
The Broadway Autopark, a 44-unit residential complex, opened on April 1. The apartments were built into the former Knightley's Parking Garage at 303 S. Broadway in downtown Wichita. The parking garage has been converted into apartments.
These future-proof parking garages can easily morph into offices or housing
Parking takes up an extraordinary amount of space in cities. These projects are making it easier to convert it to something more useful than car storage.