Downtown Parkade
Bellingham, WA
I've been to a lot of parking garages in my day. Parking garages are not special places. They are dark, dirty & dingy concrete monstrosities that exist to be the eyesores of urban civilization. To their credit they are the most efficient means of cramming as many vehicles as possible into as little footprint as is available. But rarely is efficiency accomplished in such uninspiring and forgetful ways as parking garages. No one designs and builds a parking garage in the hopes it will become a wonderful memory in the life of it's occupants. Yet unassumingly, a wonderful memory is exactly what the Bellingham Downtown Parkade has become.
