2016 International Parking Institute's Awards of Excellence: Fid-Bau Portal

2016 International Parking Institute's Awards of Excellence

The $25 million Miami Design District City View Garage serves the Design District, incorporating 22,660 ft2 of retail and 14,790 ft2 of office space. Timothy Haahs & Associates worked with Dacra and L Real Estate on the design. Multiple facade architects, including the internationally renowned firms of Leong Leong Architects and Iwamoto Scott, were also involved. The Leong Leong facade features titanium-plated, stainless-steel panels with thousands of sections cut and folded to provide a three-dimensional (3-D) effect. The Iwamoto Scott facade features a digitally fabricated, metal-screen, blue-and-silver, gradient color pattern that complements the surrounding buildings. To address a severe parking shortage in Sector E11 of Abu Dhabi Island, the Department of Transport of Abu Dhabi embarked on a two-stage project to construct a multilevel underground parking structure for 726 cars in the Al Danah area of the central business district. While construction was underway, the department built a temporary steel structure with 509 parking bays as a quick solution to compensate for lost parking.