5 Insanely Cool Parking Garages You Have to See to Believe

One is left to wonder if Henry Ford could have envisioned the concrete bunkers of our modern parking structures. Would he be dismayed or impressed by skyscrapers that serve to do nothing more than house cars?

In the United States, the top 4 driving cities average 1.7 million parking spaces with densities per acre around 23 vehicles. 

It is hard to blame civil and city engineers for trying to find low-cost and no-frills solutions to parking situations.

Hard, but not impossible. Why settle for the grey drab bunker look. so last year. Instead, take a look at these exotic and impressive structures.

Next Level Parking Structures

These aren’t your run of the mill units. These are the magnificent edifices, shrines to the dream of the car. The kind of place where you wouldn’t be embarrassed to have an experience that puts you in a list like this. 

1. Robotic Parking Garage

This automatic automotive storage unit resides in the marvel of Dubai. Capable of housing 765 vehicles, it can also retrieve and store 250 per hour.

Why park or use valet when you can exit your vehicle and have it whisked away to an underground parking lot. Then it can return without a human hand risking even a fingerprint on the finish.

2. Car Silo at Autostadt

Perhaps you want to visit this parking garage in Wolfsburg, Germany. Here your car can be safely parked and then lit up like a Christmas light for everyone to see.

The silo is 20 stories tall and houses 360 units. Sadly, you don’t so much park in this garage as select a Volkswagon from it. Still, everyone loves some a la carte car shopping. 

3. Marina City

If height is your requirement for cool, this world’s tallest parking garage will satisfy. Its 22 stories of parking space that can house 8965 vehicles makes you hope they sprung for reliable parking control systems.

While you’re there, take a photo and relive the Steve McQueen classic The Hunter by pretending to launch your Pontiac out of the tower. Just don’t actually, because of rules and that’s a little too much danger for the average day.

4. Santa Monica Civic Center

Live your best life by taking a quick park in the most cyberpunk of parking structures ever built. What it lacks in robotic parking assistance if makes up for in a parking garage design adorned in LED Neon. 

300,000 square-feet of energy efficient space houses 900 vehicles and has solar panels that can recharge up to 14 electrical vehicles. All this while also powering the impressive array of lights.

5. Umihotura

Known as the ‘floating car park’ this multi-level parking lot/rest stop redefines both. Built as a quick stop along Tokyo’s aqua-line underwater tunnel, it became an attraction of its own.

Visit shops and cafes and art galleries while you and your car float on top of a stationary cruise liner. 

Keep it Weird

Next time you encounter a parking structure, maybe it will seem all the duller now that you’ve seen the wild side. Sorry.

While you wait in line to get in (or out) of said garage, check out some weird news to keep you company. 

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