The Palm Avenue Parking Garage, designed by architect Jonathan Parks, features aluminum skin made by Mullet's Aluminum Products and engineered by Karins Engineering Group. Photo by Harold Bubil.
Jonathan Parks Architect (JPA), designer of the Palm Avenue Parking Garage in Sarasota, has been recognized for the project’s design and photography by the International Parking Institute.
JPA’s photographs received three of the highest honors out of more than 100 international projects submitted for a photo contest held by The Parking Professional, a trade magazine.
JPA won the grand prize, the cover of the January issue, for a photograph titled “The Concrete Bend,” by Elise Swain, of a ballerina inside the structure.
JPA also won for the building’s beauty and planning on the site, as captured by photographer Barry Grossman.
The 280,000-square-foot project was designed for the City of Sarasota and built by Suffolk Construction.
"The challenge for the Palm Avenue Parking Garage was to design a signature, user-friendly, mixed-use building that would become a portrait of the Sarasota community. The resulting design solution needed to welcome civic input and capture the spirit of the local artistic culture," said Parks. "To achieve this, the façade has been designed in a curvaceous, free-form sculptural style that reflects the area’s artistic and modern environment."
Located one block from Sarasota Bay, the exterior surface resembles wind-filled sails.
The project was certified LEED-Gold.
JPA is also the architect for the new, 11,000-square-foot Louie’s Modern restaurant on the ground-level retail space within the garage.
