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  • Multi-purpose car park design pushes the sustainability envelope

    2010-08-27 10:45:36 // // The Idealog Blog | 1 comment
    While many car park building designs in Chicago have a tradition of disguising themselves as office buildings with false façades, a U.S-based architectural and engineering design firm has attempted to break from that model and deliver an entirely new aesthetic, by way of an 11-story energy-efficient parking garage in Chicago — the first of its kind for the city — featuring wind turbines, a rain water collection system and electric car plug-in stations.