jmitch94 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 When i heard about this being built I thought the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 ^^^ brilliant illustration hindesky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 I hope they incorporated some type of express ramps to get to the higher floors quicker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackie21love Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 I hope they incorporated some type of express ramps to get to the higher floors quicker The garage at Methodist outpatient center is a good example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asubrt Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 The garage at Methodist outpatient center is a good example Yup, I park there for work. If I get there late I have to park on the 14th (highest) floor, and it doesn't take long at all to get to the top, maybe 2-3 minutes at most including two gates (unless you get stuck behind a patient who stops at literally every spot looking for parking, which can take ages). But I imagine at 5 PM on a workday leaving this garage would be a disaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fkp5 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Maybe we could start getting automated parking garages in downtown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 (edited) The garage at Methodist outpatient center is a good exampleinteresting. I didn't realize they existed already but it makes sense for tall garages. do they have ramps along the long sides that go straight up multiple floors at a time (maybe with little turn offs at each floor) so you don't have to wind around every floor?as for automated garages, i don't see that happening in the office district of downtown. they seem too susceptible to slow downs at 8 and 5 when a lot of people are coming and going. imagine waiting in line for the thing to retrieve your car at the end of the day. maybe if it was for residential, or under a park or something. but for office workers, i don't see an automated garage being the best fit.maybe have a semi-automated garage? have like the lowest floors be for self parking and the upper floors have a separate entrance/exit on a different street with an automated retrieval system up the middle or whatever. sure you would lose parking space in the lower self park area, for the car retriever elevator thing, but you would lose that space anyways if it were a fully automated garage.if there is a long line in the morning for the automated park then just do self park on a lower floor without having to worry about parking on the upper floors of a 16 story parking garage. the split would certainly diversify the garage and regulate the wait for the automated park, as everybody wouldn't be rushing out at 5pm and head straight for the car retriever. half the people could go straight to their car, on a lower more convenient floor, and be on their way home without disturbing the process of the upper floor automated parking process. i think its a pretty neat idea actually. do any semi-automated garages like that exist? Edited April 27, 2015 by cloud713 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timoric Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 (edited) - Edited July 8, 2019 by Timoric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustonIsHome Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 I seem to remember hearing about a 30 floor garage somewhere, not sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Zoom in on the 6th railed tier from the top. I'm not sure about how the yellow Ferrari got up there, but...http://gigapan.com/gigapans/48492/ I tried to find what the tallest parking structure in the world was, and they weren't very tall, this seems taller. http://www.subwayjoyride.com/2012/08/30/not-transit-tallest-parking-garage-in-the-world/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 If that's a private garage for a unit, does it count as the tallest parking structure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmitch94 Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Zoom in on the 6th railed tier from the top. I'm not sure about how the yellow Ferrari got up there, but...http://gigapan.com/gigapans/48492/Of which of the hundreds of buildings lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillip_white Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Sorry, I should have clarified. Zoom in on the tallest parking structure in the world. Of which of the hundreds of buildings lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rechlin Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 (edited) Of which of the hundreds of buildings lol On the Burj Khalifa (tallest building in the world). On one of the tiered balconies near the top, there's something yellow that might be a sports car. I guess it had to go up in the service elevator! Edited April 27, 2015 by rechlin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cspwal Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 On the Burj Khalifa (tallest building in the world). On one of the tiered balconies near the top, there's something yellow that might be a sports car. I guess it had to go up in the service elevator! Either that or someone painted their secret flying car in too bright of colors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 It's a 2015 Ford Mustang on the 112th floor. I can't tell you how I know that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 50 shades of waiting on ramps. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate99 Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 It's a 2015 Ford Mustang on the 112th floor. I can't tell you how I know that... Ford must be getting more mileage out of the promo car they made for the launch of the new body style Mustang. They put it up on the ESB observation deck earlier. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Tower crane is down, they were wrapping things up on Sunday. That leaves downtown with 18 tower cranes. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 ^^^ very nice hindesky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Is that your Mercedes with the much coveted Euro Warning Triangle in the trunk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 It was the police officer providing security Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BigFootsSocks Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 I'm curious how long a "round trip" on this from bottom to top to bottom would take... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monarch Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 ^^^ huge, and quite nice. props for sharing urbannizer.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I'm curious how long a "round trip" on this from bottom to top to bottom would take... the shortest route would be distance x 32ft/sec/sec hopefully no one tests that, unless they use a watermelon or similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbannizer Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 c/o Brent Oldbury on Twitter https://twitter.com/Brent_Oldbury 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 (edited) Well at least we have a tiny percentage of this that doesn't look like a towering monster garage.Edit: next to another monster garage. Edited September 24, 2015 by Montrose1100 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinsanity02 Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 If Downtown garages were covered. What an improvement. Even the Chronicle garage might look good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 I don't think parking garages are ever going to be particularly attractive. I would just like to seem them clustered in the downtown Parking District. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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