Parking Lots

Some of the coolest parking lots I've ever seen.

Herzog & de Meuron: The decks, columns and ramps at 1111 Lincoln Road are all formed from concrete slabs; photo Christian Richters

Elliott + Associates Architects: Car Park One's mesh skin, reflecting the sun; photo Scott McDonald and Hedrich Blessing

The 1929 Michigan Theater in Detroit now serves as a parking lot, the dissonance between its architecture and current usage symptomatic of the former industrial boom city's inexorable decline; photo Sean Hemmerle