THE ANNE D'HARNONCOURT SCULPTURE GARDEN AND PARKING FACILITY PHILADELPHIA

摘要

The Philadelphia Museum of Art sits in Fairmount Park, one of the city's most highly trafficked green spaces, but it has long been plagued by an all-too-urban problem: parking. Originally conceived as part of Jacques Greber's 1917 plan for the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the site had been encroached upon by unsightly surface parking and was partially overgrown. The team devised a plan to create a 442-spot underground parking lot, topped by a green roof. "The parking is really heroic," juror Bill Valentine said. "To do that, to get it underground so that [Philadelphia-based fellow juror] John Cary doesn't even notice it when he jogs by there, [is a feat]."