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Another growing architectural trend in American cities is what is often called a "Texas Doughnut" or "Dallas Doughnut": a multi-level parking garage wrapped in
by oftenwrong 8y ago
Another growing architectural trend in American cities is what is often called a "Texas Doughnut" or "Dallas Doughnut": a multi-level parking garage wrapped in apartments. Ground-floor commercial space may be included as well.
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- InclinedPlane 8y agoThat is impressively hideous, it looks like living in a mall.
- amyjess 8y agoYou don't see it from street level, though. It's just ugly from an aerial view. At street level, all you see is the outside of the building, which looks like a regular building, and you have a few tunnels here and there that lead to the parking garage. Here: https://goo.gl/maps/CFbDSxyhkXP2 https://goo.gl/maps/CFbDSxyhkXP2 Other than that little tunnel, you wouldn't be able to tell there's a parking garage inside.
- oftenwrong 8y agoIt is a mall, more-or-less. There are shops and restaurants in and around it. To be fair, it looks much better from street view than it does from the satellite view. For most American cities, "impressively hideous" is standard issue. https://goo.gl/maps/sbkieWpfdv62 https://goo.gl/maps/sbkieWpfdv62
- logfromblammo 8y agoNevertheless, topologically superior to having the parking surrounding the building as a surface lot.
- calcifer 8y agoWow, looks horrible. Much better to make that a communal garden and have the garage underground.
- kazen44 8y agoThis reminds me of the plattenbau used in east germany. Where they had huge concrete buildings (although with a communal garden).
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- mkirklions 8y agoThat sounds like a fun idea. Excavation is expensive and toss in an under-utilized garden space- You could probably run for office with those ideas. Pros of this idea: Looks pretty. A few people can grow tomato's for a fun hobby. Cons of this idea: More expensive and unavailable for lower income. To be fair, I'm overtly sympathetic to the lowest income.
- bdamm 8y agoBeing unavailable to the lowest income is a viable platform to run on in some districts.
- amyjess 8y agoUnderground isn't feasible in Texas. Our soil is all clay here, and it's ridiculously expensive to dig through. The only buildings I've seen here with basements are giant skyscrapers in Downtown Dallas and a handful of buildings at the University of Texas at Dallas.
- oftenwrong 8y agoIt's not typical to have underground construction in Dallas. It is partly due to the expansive clay soil composition. Furthermore, there is not much pressure to make efficient use of land because the city is already quite sprawling. The cost of building underground would almost certainly not be justified.
- ahoy 8y agoIn addition to the difficulty of underground construction in Texas that others have pointed out, there's also the issue of parking minimums that most new construction projects require. Legally, that parking has to go somewhere.
- rconti 8y agoNot that cheaper units ever have a nice view, but I can only imagine the misery of living with a parking garage view (with attendant parking garage sounds).
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoCover your windows with 60" 4K monitors.
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