Check out this post and this post for interesting parking garages.
Now, many will argue parking garages cannot be sustainable because its mere existence creates the opportunity for more cars to be on the road. Others claim that cars will continue to exist even without more parking garages and the fact that the designer took the strategy to make the structure as green as possible is a step forward.
That being said here are some garages that have successfully attained LEED certification:
City of Santa Monica Parking Structure #6 Behnisch Architekten + Studio Jantzen Source
I don’t think its better or worse. If you are the kind of person that enjoys this experience, go for it! I attended a summer program or engineering in Purdue University and it was a great experience, but the parts I remember are not the courses but the friendships and mischief.
Does architecture have a crisis of ideas?
Like everything, architectural history and theory have been radically realigned by the internet and digital culture. Now, ideas are passed through relatively unfiltered media, such as 140-character tweets that have turned writers’ attention from writing to spewing fragments of criticism that float off into the ether. Curation today is often merely a manic production of online content driven by clicks, which come from posting more (and more, and more) content. This makes young writers who are feeding this content beast truly starved for new things to write about. It is a dramatic shift from the days when magazines like Architectural Forum and Progressive Architecture were the curatorial gatekeepers that held the conversation at a high level.
The result is that bad ideas can come to be front and center in the architectural discussion very easily due to metrics and algorithms. What passes for “radical,” “idea,” “theory,” and “concept” today is becoming eroded as quickly as our political discourse.
13 Tragically Demolished Buildings that Depict Our Ever-Changing Attitudes Toward Architecture
Immortalized through photographs, drawings, and stories, buildings that have been demolished or completely renovated exist in the realm known as “lost architecture.” Either for economic or aesthetic reasons, the old gets torn down for the new, often to the disdain of community members and architects. But demolished buildings tell a story about the ever-changing politics of preservation—and often, they tell it far better than buildings that were actually preserved ever could. As the architectural landscape continues to change around us, it is important to recognize our past, even if its traces have been eliminated from the physical world.
Pennsylvania Station (1910 – 1963) Image via Library of Congress
Black Dots by Nicholas White
I wish I could respond but people enjoy so many things for their holidays, from staying home playing video games to climbing the Everest, that is impossible to choose!
Maybe if you gave me some idea of what you are looking for…
Josef Bsharah
A small sampling of the work by CG artist, CINEMA4D User and VRayforC4D User Josef Bsharah shared on his tumblr. If you visit his website you will find, not only more stunning works but, tutorials, products and even frebbies to improve your CG renderings.
Landscape Mirrors by Rigved Sathe
In the words of the artist Rigved Sathe:
In a society dominated by technology, we often forget to stop and admire the beautiful outdoors. As millennials, we are so caught up in trying to accomplish everything, that we fail to take a hard look in the mirror to see what we’ve become. This personal project is an ode to our generation, a tribute to all of you out there who have probably lost yourselves along the way to success. Take a moment, breathe and try to alter your perspective - the results may surprise you!
Time Witness by Stefano Barattini
Stefano Barattini’s project refers to transition spaces, places sometimes left behind, exposed to a possible mutation. These places go back to a vague time, exploring an abandoned condition of which we appreciate the aesthetic dimension.
The search of these places has expanded without interruptions, including a large variety of typologies such as: sanatoriums, villas, farm houses, mental hospitals, factories and prisons in a state of complete dereliction. The main cultural purpose is to keep photographic traces of an artistic and architectural heritage which is going to be lost in demolition, destruction or severe renovation.