COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Temple Street Parking Garage
Alternate Title:
Temple Street Garage
Image View:
Retail space under the garage; the large structure spans George Street like an overpass
Creator:
Paul Rudolph (American architect, 1918-1997)
Location:
site: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Location Note:
1 Temple Street; Temple and George Streets
GPS:
+41.304225-72.928461
Date:
1959-1963 (creation); 2004 (restoration)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Brutalist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
parking garage
Work Type 2:
mixed-use development
Classification:
architecture
Material:
reinforced cast concrete
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Description:
Rudolph took over the helm of the Yale School of Architecture as its dean in 1958, shortly after designing the Yale Art and Architecture Building. His comments on the garage: ""When the New Haven parking garage was being constructed, the remainder of the buildings in the adjacent blocks was not determined. They should have been designed to dominate the parking garage...The parking garage is a peculiar twentieth-century phenomenon. The one in New Haven comes from the design of throughways. Most parking garages are merely skeletal structures which didn't get any walls. They are just office building structures with the glass left out. I wanted to make a building which said it dealt with cars and movement. I wanted there to be no doubt that this is a parking garage."" The garage instead dominates its surroundings. The poured in place concrete structure has a frontage of over 800 feet. The ten story split-level multi-use parking facility was originally created as the core for a transformation of the downtown business district. Spanning George Street the structure incorporates 1280 parking spaces and tens of thousands of square feet of retail space. (Source: Cook, John Wesley; Conversations with Architects : Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph, Bertrand Goldberg, Morris Lapidus, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brow, New York: Praeger, 1973)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Eight
Identifier:
1A1-BM-SJUAL-A09
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Temple Street Parking Garage
