August 13th, 2010

Nicole Kidman and hubby Keith Urban just bought a new apartment in New York for a reported $10 mil (a deal considering the asking price was $12.5). Their neighbors include Dolce & Gabbana who live in the penthouse, reportedly bought for $29.5 mil.

The piece de resistance is the first ever “en-suite sky garage” TM (yup, it’s trademarked). Yes, that’s right, they have a 300 sq ft parking space/private elevator that you can drive into from the street that brings you right into your apartment. Oh, why haven’t they invented this sooner?

The New York Times just printed a story about a new parking garage that “adds glamour to South Beach.”

The story quotes Cathy Leff, director of the Wolfsonian-F.I.U., the design, culture and history museum as saying that “developer Robert Wennett and the architects have demonstrated that a traditionally banal building type — the parking garage — can be elevated to an art form.” The garage is a rather expensive piece of art with a price tag $65 million.

We at DriveLikeAWoman.com believe that parking spaces for too long have been utilitarian and predictable. It’s about time cars and the spaces that house them earn their proper place in the architectural world. We predict that parking spaces will become the new “it” structure of the architecture/design world. You heard it here first!