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This article was better than I expected, since I misinterpreted the title as if it meant building over car-parks (i.e. putting buildings over them with the park
by stephen_g 5y ago
This article was better than I expected, since I misinterpreted the title as if it meant building over car-parks (i.e. putting buildings over them with the parking underneath), which is a good idea!
The amount of surface parking in the US does always astound me when I see photos and videos of US cities... The country I live in isn't especially short on space (Australia) but land is expensive in cities so car parks are usually either pretty small, or they're multi-story or under the building (either ground floor parking with the building above, or underground parking under the building). Just seems like such a waste of space to have these massive surface car-parks. Doing it like it's done in Australia has the advantage of things being a bit closer together, which is better for walking between properties or just walking/cycling in general.
But the interesting thing is that surface parking seems like it used to be a lot more common here from what I remember from my childhood, and development and zoning laws seem to have encouraged what were car parks to be re-developed into much more space efficient use. So it is possible - kind of like The Netherlands and cycling - I wish my city and cities in my country were more like that, but they're better now than Amsterdam was in the 1970s, and slowly going in the right direction. The change is possible.
- prawn 5y agoThere's a new Bunnings near me where the entire building footprint (including outdoor, etc) is above the ground-level carpark. Once in the building or garden centre, there's every impression you're at ground level because the experience is like every other Bunnings, but without exposure to the elements. Then there are solar panels on the roof. The total footprint as a result is far, far smaller than other large Bunnings buildings in the state.
- waste_monk 5y agoNormal Bunnings locations have a drive-thru area for people picking up bulk or oversized goods, and there would have to be a cargo dock to actually get stuff into the store - how is this handled at your location?
- prawn 5y agoThey still offer trade services and courtesy trailers at Edwardstown. In fact, they seem to have far more services listed than a large store like Mile End: https://www.bunnings.com.au/stores/sa/edwardstown https://www.bunnings.com.au/stores/sa/edwardstown https://www.bunnings.com.au/stores/sa/mile-end https://www.bunnings.com.au/stores/sa/mile-end There's a large timber 'yard', but I haven't looked to see how it works. Seems like there's a ramp up: https://bit.ly/31XKTBb https://bit.ly/31XKTBb Might be an oversized lift/elevator too. Otherwise, larger trade enquiries could be pushed off to a different store. Another store like Kent Town has a fairly small footprint but external parking, so I assume that sort of thing would be phased out.
- jcun4128 5y agoThey could put solar panels on the parking lots and mine crypto, it pays for itself, would be pretty schmick /s
- eynsham 5y agoThe MTR Corporation builds apartments over railway dépôts; admittedly, this may only be an economy in Hong Kong. There are some quite striking pictures here: https://www.checkerboardhill.com/2015/01/railway-depots-hong-kong-property-development/ https://www.checkerboardhill.com/2015/01/railway-depots-hong....
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoHaving a metro-station in the basement, or next to it seems useful :-) Something similar in Berlin, Germany over the 'Autobahn' https://duckduckgo.com/?q=berlin+schlangenbader+straße https://duckduckgo.com/?q=berlin+schlangenbader+straße