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1111 Lincoln Road is a parking garage in the South Beach section of Miami Beach, Florida, designed by the internationally known Swiss architectural firm of Herzog & de Meuron. It is located at the western end of the Lincoln Road Mall at the intersection with Alton Road, and can house some 300 cars.〔 Since its opening in 2010, it has attracted considerable interest because its unique appearance is different from more traditional parking garage designs. ==Background== In 2005, local developer Robert Wennett bought a SunTrust Bank office structure that was from 1968 and the Brutalist style. This included an adjacent surface parking lot.〔 Intent upon revitalizing the western end of Lincoln Road Mall, Wennett decided not to completely eliminate the existing structure, but instead build something next to it of equal height – a parking garage.〔 As ''Architectural Record'' has noted, "In the Pantheon of Building Types, the parking garage lurks somewhere in the vicinity of prisons and toll plazas." ''The New York Times'' has labeled parking garages "the grim afterthought of American design".〔 But Wennett was determined to do something different, and interviewed ten well-known architects around the globe before choosing Herzog & de Meuron.〔〔 Construction began in 2008 and entailed closing the western end of Lincoln Road Mall. The resulting structure cost $65 million to build. The overall project included renovation of the existing building into one used for storefronts and offices for creative firms, and construction of a new, smaller structure for SunTrust that also contained a few apartments.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1111 Lincoln Road」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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