Re-dignifying Parking Garages

"Hence the gasps of wonderment from first-time visitors to the subterranean garage at Santiago Calatrava's sublime addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum. With its boomerang arches, clerestory windows and spotless white walls, the light-filled garage feels like an extension of the art galleries above... When I asked him last year why he had lavished such attention on that 100-car structure, which was tricky and expensive to build, Calatrava launched into an impassioned defense, likening the role of parking garages to an earlier generation's railway stations."