Author Q&A with Kate Stohr: Design Like You Give a Damn [2]
Marsupial Bridge & Media Garden, Milwaukee, designed by La Dallman Architects, 2005-06. Once an unused, unsafe space, the new Urban Plaza under the bridge hosts a Media Garden and is a vibrant neighborhood gathering space. From Design Like You Give a Damn [2]. Photo: La Dallman Architects
The entire Parkroyal on Pickering hotel complex in Singapore is raised on a wide concrete podium shielded from the street by a row of columns. Sculpted in precast concrete layers resembling chiseled bedrock, it is the geological substratum supporting the gardens and buildings above. The columns shoot up through the base of the podium and resurface at its top. They hoist up the tower blocks, creating a large gap of space that separates the 367 hotel residences from the ground structure.
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