Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of: <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2014/11/06/a-look-inside-downtown-disneys-new-parking-structure/" target="_blank"><b>11/6/14: A Look Inside Downtown Disney's New Parking Structure</b></a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Looks nice! Hopefully this will help clear up some of the current traffic problems around DTD They're building a 2nd parking garage there, on the opposite side of the bus loop, right? I guess they'll start that one after this one is open
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Is it just me, or does it bear a strong resemblance to Disney's other big parking garage in Anaheim?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If you've seen one big parking garage, you've seen them all...there's really very little that can be done to make them look different from one another. I like the outer skin that they're doing on this, and the concept art showed some vine-like plants would be incorporated (I guess similar to Mickey & Friends), so it will only get better. As a utilitarian structure, it's tough to find a balance of something that aesthetically pleasing enough, but not so much that people think that you really wanted it to be themed like everything else Disney does
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "If you've seen one big parking garage, you've seen them all...there's really very little that can be done to make them look different from one another." Maybe you haven't seen many garages. Take this one in Miami for instance: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.papermag.com/blogs/1111_lincoln_road_herzog_de_meuron_render1.jpg">http://www.papermag.com/blogs/...der1.jpg</a> The DLR garage has a distinctive feel to it.
Originally Posted By dagobert It's a parking garage, but when the greenery is on the structure it will look fine. I really hope for the guests that Disney installs a traffic system that shows free spaces. Every garage over here uses such a system, but I guess so do the garages in the US too.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>Maybe you haven't seen many garages. Take this one in Miami for instance: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.papermag.com/blogs/...der1.jpg">http://www.papermag.com/blogs/...der1.jpg</a> The DLR garage has a distinctive feel to it.<< The Miami one looks like a parking garage trying to look like something else. It does, it looks like a big ugly sculpture. I like the Disney one better. Parking garages aren't supposed to entertain, they are strictly utility buildings.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Parking garages aren't supposed to entertain, they are strictly utility buildings.> So says you!!!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "The Miami one looks like a parking garage trying to look like something else. It does, it looks like a big ugly sculpture.' <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/us/24garage.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01...tml?_r=0</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I once attended a gala event in the parking structure at the Americana in Glendale. Despite being a fancy parking structure, there was no mistaking it for anything other than a parking structure. It's the building at the back of the photo, with the Eiffel Tower-esque elevator shaft <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/18/b1/25/night-shot-from-top-floor.jpg">http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.c...loor.jpg</a> And I don't think that parking structures need to be strictly utilitarian, but it's tough to make them more appealing. The lower portion of the famous Marina City Towers in Chicago are parking, and fit the architecture quite nicely. I think it would be terrifying to try and park there with the drop-off to the river below (especially since everybody backs into the spaces), but they seem to work nicely <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Images/NearNorthSide/MarinaCity-001.jpg">http://www.chicagoarchitecture...-001.jpg</a> <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Chicago">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi.../Chicago</a>_(ILL)_River_North,_Marina_city,_1964.jpg Also in Chicago, the John Hancock Center has a notable parking structure, which resembles the Guggenheim Museum in New York <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.emporis.com/images/show/772934-Large.jpg">http://www.emporis.com/images/...arge.jpg</a> It's not impossible to make a parking structure aesthetically pleasing, but it seems like it's rarely worth the effort. In most cases the best looking parking structures are the underground ones that are completely out of sight, like the one in front of the LA Colisuem (to the right of the Sports Arena in this photo): <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.trbimg.com/img-4f8740ea/turbine/la-me-coliseum-20120413-photo/600">http://www.trbimg.com/img-4f87...hoto/600</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Thanks for the links Ferret. What drew me to Disney at a young age was architecture and design. Its all subjective of course, but like any other type of building there are good garages and terrible garages.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Finally, a Disney place to park and not have my car get sweltering baked.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Beat me to it, Ferret -- I was going to post a picture of the Marina building in Chicago - great example!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: We don't have parking garages in Morva. ORGOCH: That's 'cause we ain't got cars, neither!! ORWEN: But we do have lots of stables for the horses to stay whenever they're not galloping around all over the place. ORDDU: Which reminds me; we also have plenty of places for the medieval warriors to stay whenever they're not riding around on the horses. I've invited many a Knight to park himself at our cottage...
