Long gone are the grand arched train stations welcoming you to a new city. Today, the universal entrance into our urban cities is a claustrophobic parking garage.
"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."
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FULL STORY: Parking garages need their share of architectural beauty, too
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