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Reddit Municipal Parking Garages by Serhii Chrucky The trend towards municipal parking in North American cities began around 1950, and can be regarded as an effect of postwar prosperity and increasing automobile use. Off-street parking, which until this time had been a private enterprise, was likely taken on by cities as an extension of and a supplement to their on-street parking programs. The parking meter was invented in 1935, allowing cities a form of control over the problem of the parked car. The common planning solution called for off-street parking, in which cars parked for longer durations would free up on-street parking for short-term users. It is likely that municipal parking garages would have been built in the early 1930’s, at least in Chicago. However, the Great Depression and World War II postponed the arrival of these structures until after the war. Left: Architectural Record. Right: City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. From the point of view of a city government, the parking problem was one which they had already begun to address, and the multi story garage was simply another method in which to, as an article on Chicago’s garages refers to it, “attack” the problem. There is no clear-cut answer as to whether or not Chicago’s parking program was effective. It could be said that the solution to one problem led to another problem entirely. However, the tangible results of Chicago’s attack on the parking problem were nine garages which, in true Chicago form, raised the architectural typology to a high stylistic level. Contrary to municipal parking garages built in most other North American cities, which are for the most part undistinguished (with notable exceptions), Chicago erected Modernist monuments to the automobile. Rather than hide vehicles behind a classically inspired facade, as was often the case prior, Chicago’s municipal garages put the vehicle on display. FACILITY № 1 Address: 11 W. Wacker Type: Lift Capacity: 717 Architects: Shaw, Metz & Dolio Year Demolished: 1983 City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Architectural Record. Facility № 1 was prominently located on the southwest corner of Wacker and State. Opening in 1955, it could hold 717 automobiles. The second of three lift-type municipal garages in Chicago, it had fourteen levels of parking, and two reception levels serving the lower level of Wacker drive. Functionally, the garage was composed of a five-unit elevator at the center, flanked on two sides by parking decks. The elevator shaft is capped on both ends by two windowless brick masses, which encase staircases to street level and bridges from one side of the garage to the other. Left: City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Right: The Architecture of Parking. One of the more interesting aspects of this garage is that, unlike most garages, both publicly and privately owned, there is no large permanent signage advertising parking. It wasn’t needed; the structure itself is a better advertisement than any sign. The exterior walls are non-existent; rather, cars are prevented from plummeting by hundreds of cables held in tension. This transparency allows motorists on Wacker Drive to see fourteen levels of parked cars in abstract form. This was no mere parking garage, it was a monument to parking. more interesting aspects of this garage is that, unlike most garages, both publicly and privately owned, there is no large permanent signage advertising parking. It wasn’t needed; the structure itself is a better advertisement than any sign. The exterior walls are non-existent; rather, cars are prevented from plummeting by hundreds of cables held in tension. This transparency allows motorists on Wacker Drive to see fourteen levels of parked cars in abstract form. This was no mere parking garage, it was a monument to parking. Ryerson-Burnham Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection. Left: The Floresheim Factory, located on the northwest corner of Canal and Adams, is another Shaw, Metz, & Dolio building which bears resemblance to Facility № 1. One can see that for Facility № 1, the Albert Kahn-influenced ribbon windows were substitued with tensile cables, and the floor slabs tapered and cantilevered. The elements of the garage appear lighter, however, the overall organization of planar elements is nearly identical. This building is still extant today, though barely recognizable as a result of a poorly executed condo conversion. Right: This sculpture, Chicago Rising from the Lake by Milton Horn, was executed for Facility № 1, and can be seen adorning the massing on the Wacker frontage in the above images. Although created for a parking garage, it conspicuously lacks the presence of the automobile. This contrasts with every other aspect of these municipal garages, which otherwise celebrate the automobile. The sculpture was removed from the garage prior to demolition, and was eventually installed on the Columbus Street bridge. It remains to this day on the west side of the north footing. Left: City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Right: Bob Thall. Facility № 1 in 1954 during construction (left), and in 1983 during demolition (right). in 1954 during construction (left), and in 1983 during demolition (right). FACILITY № 2 Address: 20 S. Wacker Type: Ramp Capacity: 1230 Architects: Naess & Murphy Year Demolished: 1980-1982 Image: City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Positioned along the river, the defining feature of Facility № 2 is horizontality. Opening in 1954, it was designed by Naess and Murphy who would, four years later, design another horizontally-oriented building along the river; the Sun-Times building. The pattern of the steel sheathing guarding the top two decks of the garage is nearly identical to the facing of the Sun-Times building. As large buildings would eventually be required to include parking facilities, it is not difficult to imagine this garage incorporated into the design of the Sun-Times building. City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Architectural Record. With 1,230 spaces of cheap self-parking, $22.50 per month in 1960, this garage must have been a facilitator and catalyst spurring the trend of super-tall skyscrapers built along the north-south section of Wacker drive. The first of these was the America Fore building at 250 S. Wacker, which opened in 1957, three years after Facility № 2. Hartford Plaza and the U.S. Gypsum building (seen above) opened on the same block as this garage in the early 60s, and this pattern of building has continued since. Smaller scale buildings like Adler & Sullivan’s Troescher Building, seen at far left of this image, were casualties of this rapid growth. Left: City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Right: Bob Thall. Left: Facility № 2 under construction. Right: The Mercantile Exchange, for which the garage was torn down to make way, under construction in 1982. Although Facility № 2 was by far the highest grossing municipal parking garage, earning nearly $50,000 in 1960, it was the second garage to be sold by the city to private interests. The land value was relatively low when the building was constructed, as evidenced by the large footprint and horizontality. By the time the city began selling garages in 1979; this garage occupied the most valuable real estate of any municipal garage, and was easily sold. FACILITY № 3 Address: 553 S. State Type: Ramp Capacity: 665 Architects: Everett Quinn Year Demolished: 1999 City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Facility № 3 was also horizontally oriented, as is the matter of course with non-spiral ramp garages. Interestingly, the horizontal planes of the entire structure shift, clearly revealing the presence of ramps. This is in contrast to Facility № 2, where the ramps are concealed within the structure. Here, the entire garage expresses the banked upward and downward motion of vehicles on a ramp, just as Facility № 1 expresses the vertical motion of an elevator. Left: City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Right: Christopher Buoscio. Architectural Record. The other prominent feature of this garage is the unusually tall vertical neon sign advertising ‘parking’. Considering the location at the corner of State and Harrison, the need for high visibility becomes obvious. The large sign compensates for the relatively low height of the building as seen from a distance. The sign would have been easily visible to potential shoppers cruising the area south of the State Street shopping area for parking. The fact that this garage served State Street shoppers is laid bare in its revenue patterns during the first five years of operation. Each year, revenues peak beginning late November until late December, and then fall off in January through February. Where Facility № 2 served to encourage construction in the central area, Facility № 3 slightly offset the migration of shoppers away from the central area to outlying suburban centers. FACILITY № 4 Address: 506 N. Rush Type: Ramp Capacity: 1969 Architects: Schmidt, Garden & Erickson Year Demolished:

City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Similarly to Facility № 3, the ramp of Facility № 4 is expressed on the exterior. However, the treatment is quite different. Here, the back third of the structure is offset in an interlocking pattern of positive/negative space. Instead of displaying the smoothness of the ramp, this ramp is contrapuntal, visible and concealed concurrently. The offset levels heighten the illusion of planes floating in space. The guard rail, which is similar in thickness to the deck itself, gives a multi-layered quality, further emphasizing the seemingly impossible. Architectural Record. City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. As with many of the images on this page dating to the 1950s and 1960s, the built environment depcited has changed so dramatically as to be indistinguishable in the present. In the above images, we see the presence of industrial activity in River North, as well as a smaller scale of buildings. This area today is devoid of any industry, and is now almost exclusively home to service-based retail establishments. If this can be read as a microcosm of how Chicago’s economy has changed over the past half-century, the structure which now stands on the land formerly occupied by Facility № 4 demonstrates changes in how parking is accomodated. This structure is a behemoth Nordstrom’s with an interior parking garage nearly twice the capacity of Facility № 4. Aside from the entry portals and diminutive signage, there is no indication, structurally, that the building is a parking garage surrounded by retail space. Contemporary vernacular (as opposed to extraordinary) parking architecture has completed a full circle, with parking often being stashed not behind a classical facade as seen in many early examples, but entirely surrounded by retail space. FACILITY № 5 Address: 875 N. Rush Type: Lift Capacity: 420 Architects: Loebl & Schlossman Year Demolished: ? City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Where Facilities № 1 and № 4 can be seen as paeans to the materiality of concrete and the triumph of the automobile, for Facility № 5, architects Loebl & Schlossman make explicit reference to the parking garage’s then-short history. In covering vehicles rather than revealing them, this garage draws similarity to early parking garages in Paris and Chicago. Stylistically, most of Chicago’s municipal garages can be considered Modernist. However, the curvilinear forms and use of block glass set Facility № 5 apart as an updated version of Art Moderne. This draws comparison to the Autorimezza, a large parking facility in Venice, completed in 1934, and even hints at Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress Fair. Architectural Record. Resembling Facility № 1 with a central lift shaft flanked by two parking decks, the difference is in the beveled corners of Facility № 5. Also, where light, nearly see-through tensile cables are used as the guard on № 1; heavy interlocking bars of concrete cover the view of the parked vehicles in № 5. This is because vehicles are neither the emphasis nor the main subject. Facility № 5 is located along Rush Street in a bustling nightclub district. Lit from inside, this garage would have appeared to motorists as an abstract luminescent jewel box. In order to compete for attention with the multitude of neon signs on Rush, the architects seemingly designed the entire building to serve the attention-grabbing function of a neon sign. The emphasis on light is carried down to street level, where the pedestrian does not see vehicles, but backlit block glass. FACILITY № 6 Address:210 E. Huron Type:Ramp Capacity:1188 Architects:Holabird, Root & Burgee Year Demolished: c.1975 City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Instead of a single ramp structure for Facility № 6, architects Holabird, Root, and Burgee incorporated two separate but identical garages. In the space between the two garages is a surface-level lot. The two walls on either side of the lot are horizontally serpentine, and about twice the height of the average car. Shielding the sight of parked vehicles from pedestrians, this is a more conventional approach to parking design. Concealment is echoed in the garages which are not visually floating planes of concrete as in Facility № 4; rather they are large, solid planes with the supporting beams placed close to the exterior walls. Not to interfere with pedestrian space, or reveal parked cars, the decks are cantilevered over the serpentine wall, ceasing directly above the property line.

Left: City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Right: Architectural Record. Image: City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Those of you keeping score, we didn’t forget. Facility № 7 was a small two-story garage in Uptown. It was one of about five such structures, which we will cover in a later page. FACILITY № 8 Address:120 N. LaSalle Type:Lift Capacity:495 Architects:Friedman, Alschuler, and Sincere Year Demolished: Architectural Record. Opening late 1954, Facility № 8 was Chicago’s first municipal garage. It was also the most centrally located of all the municipal garages. Across LaSalle Street from City Hall, this garage featured an automated system where the attendant parks the car remotely. It was claimed that a car could be parked at this facility in one minute. City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Perhaps due to high land values and more expensive machinery, the fee to park for one hour was 65 cents in 1960, fifteen cents higher than the other eight garages. At 35 dollars per month, it was also more expensive for long term parking. The garage occupied a small plot of land, which combined with high land value, necessitated an elevator garage, as ramps consume considerable amounts of space. Contrasting with Chicago’s two other municipal lift garages; the lift shafts are set parallel to the street, behind the façade. This parallel quality is repeated in the prominent horizontal guard rails which face the street. Three strips each; these rails conceal the cars and structure of the deck. However, they create a strong simplified form which appears to sit on an L-shaped massing of glazed brick. City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Under construction in 1953. A Helumut Jahn-designed skyscraper occupies this land today. Ryerson-Burnham Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection. A rather large sign advertising parking is prominently included under the horizontal rails, above the LaSalle Street entrance. This emphasis on massive signage is similar to another Loop building by Friedman, Alschuler & Sincere during the same era; the Bond building (above). FACILITY № 9 Address: 320 N. LaSalle Type: Ramp Capacity: 650 Architects: Graham, Anderson, Probst & White Year Demolished: 2006 City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Not unlike the other municipal garage abutting the river, Facility № 2, horizontality is paramount in the design of Facility № 9. However, these two garages differ in their relationship to Wacker drive. Facility № 2 was situated on Wacker, and of course, was accessible from it. Facility № 9 was located on the other side of the river, facing Wacker drive. The horizontal orientation reflects not only the movement of the river, but more importantly, the movement of vehicles on Wacker drive. Right: Architectural Record. This garage was prominently visible from Wacker, thanks especially to the large, also horizontal, neon sign. Centered on the top deck, the sign is a good example of neon signage as advertisement and ornament. The garage was easily accessed from Wacker drive by turning north onto LaSalle, another street widened at the beginning of the auto era – the 1920s. An interesting feature is the two setback upper decks which presumably allow a driver to visually inspect for vacant spaces from Wacker or LaSalle. FACILITY № 10 Address: 535 N. St. Clair Type: Ramp Capacity: 262 Architects: Jensen & McClurg Year Demolished: still extant Left: City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Right: Architectural Record The smallest garage in capacity and footprint is Facility № 10. Located in what was an industrial area where parking was at less of a premium, the size of this garage reflects the lesser demand. Positioned halfway between

Michigan Avenue and Lake Shore Drive, on Grand Avenue, this garage is more remotely located in terms of accessibility from major arterials and highways. City of Chicago Bureau of Parking. Google Streetview, 2008 Even for a small garage, it still has monumental aspirations. Resembling the recently demolished La Salle-10th Street garage in Minneapolis (at left), the exterior wall is non-existent, unquestionably revealing the function. All of the support beams are inset, giving the cantilevered slabs the same floating illusion seen most prominently in Facility № 4. Views of Facility № 10 in 2008. Go see it while you can, there are condozing plans in the works. The fact that all of Chicago’s municipal garages were done by local ‘name’ architects is telling. 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