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High Design For Your Car

By , About.com Guide   November 13, 2009

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ZipCar Dispenser
Frank Lloyd Wright had the right idea when he drew plans for the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective and Planetarium. Gordon Strong Automobile Objective by Frank Lloyd WrightThat tourist destination never got built, but nowadays architects are designing all sorts of structures that put cars in fancy places.
  • Exhibit: House of Cars, Innovation and the Parking Garage at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. through July 11, 2010.
  • Book: The Parking Garage: Design and Evolution of a Modern Urban Form by Shannon Sanders McDonald (compare prices)
  • Photos: Parking Outside the Box in Metropolis Magazine.
Images:
Above: "Pez-dispenser" design for a Zipcar garage, 2004. Image Courtesy Moskow Linn Architects Inc.

Right: Gordon Strong Automobile Objective and Planetarium by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1924-25. FLLW FDN # 2505.039 © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona

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