Reinventing the Parking Garage: Calgary, Canada

The garage isn’t just where you park your car. Countless transformational success stories, from rock bands to famous tech companies, have come from such humble roots. This time, it’s the garage that’s the focus of innovation.

Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC), along with operating partners Calgary Parking Authority and Platform Calgary, were in preparations to build what could be central Calgary’s last new parkade in the city’s East Village. However, the neighborhood is evolving towards a future with self-driving cars, expanded public transit, and a growing cycling culture ― all of which could make the parkade redundant.

So, when CMLC asked us to plan a sustainable building to include an immediate use beyond parking, we used our ‘in-between thinking‘ to create a parking design that could adapt to our changing relationship with cars and future-proof the site for many years to come. The result is a 250,000 square foot, mixed-use building, which includes an innovation centre on the first and second levels, and allows for the future conversion to residential or office use.

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