Archinect - News 2024-12-23T22:21:29-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/98901677/enlightenment-about-parking-q-a-with-architect-darius-sollohub Enlightenment About Parking: Q&A with Architect Darius Sollohub Alexander Walter 2014-04-29T14:30:00-04:00 >2014-05-06T22:18:03-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ac/acf874271072cd56a797adee11d97213?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>We might ask ourselves the question, why is it that so many communities want to disguise the utilitarian cell phone tower as a fake tree? They fool no one and actually call more attention to them. Or why are there hundreds of parking structures that have false fa&ccedil;ades that make people initially think they are foreclosed buildings with all the windows broken? There seems to be much cultural confusion about the beauty of the utilitarian.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>