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Article: In the ring: a normally cacotopic building type given grace by thoughtful handling of materials and scale.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Multi-storey car parks are a difficult building type, particularly the circular kind. For a start, round buildings are hard to insert into the urban fabric, then the scale needed by cars tends to be different from those of buildings which serve human beings. And they tend to be full of stinking petrol fumes and grease.
The one built by Ingenhoven, Overdiek & Partner at the Burda media park near Offenburg avoids most of these problems. It was commissioned by a publishing house so that staff could be brought together from several different locations. An almost rural undeveloped area at the edge of the little city was available, and the architects made a five-storey ...