Blog

Another Captivating Parking Structure Glass Facade

 

Apparently I have parking structures on the brain this summer. In May, I wrote about Santa Monica’s Civic Center Parking Structure glass facade by Moore Ruble Yudell and International Parking Design. In July, I found myself revisiting a concept I had developed for a parking garage stairwell the previous winter.

Today, I found myself drawn to Lutz Haufchild’s Cadenza, an elegant glass facade for a parking structure near Vancouver’s Symphony Hall. Haufchild suspended curved, laminated float glass in a stainless steel frame to visually suggest cadenzas in music – those grand, virtuosic solos that happen in concertos, typically near the end of a movement. Haufchild worked with Christian Karl Janssen (Alameda, California) and Merrick Architecture (Vancouver) to realize the project.

 

 

Ever a connoisseur of stripes, I love how Haufchild uses thin bars of color, ever subtly shifting across each panel, to support the work’s sense of musicality and movement.

Since I seem to be on a roll here – can you think of other great parking structure glass facades one might check out for inspiration? I recently joined Pinterest, so considering starting a board devoted to this current fixation!