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• Cave of Wonders: Bangkok’s @Speed Garage [Video]

  In Fast Forward / By Tom Anderson / 26 February 2013

  

  Ever had a project that gradually escalated into something that was much nicer (read: more time, effort and expense invested) than what you had originally planned? That’s what seems to have happened with A-Thummanoon Pornrojanagoon’s garage. The Bangkok resident (who is known to his friends by the exponentially-simpler moniker A) initially just wanted a place to store his collection of vehicles and parts. But as you can see in this video, it became something far greater by the time he was through.

  The shelving for wheels and other parts, the windows and tall ceilings are certainly garage mahal material. And the vehicles that occupy the space – which include a couple of vintage Mercedes-Benz sedans, an Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV, and a gaggle of JDM legends led by a first-gen “Hakosuka” Nissan Skyline GT-R – certainly reinforce the building’s petrolhead Valhalla status. But as A is quick to point out, the thing that (a la the Dude’s rug) really ties the room together is the sense of community he and his car-guy friends have. Whether they’re wrenching or just hanging out, A and his associates use @Speed Garage as a place to celebrate their most significant common bond, and each other. Kinda makes the physical objects inside seem less significant, huh?

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• VIDEO: Singapore High-Rise Offers Garages with a View

  In Offbeat / By Tom Anderson / 30 August 2012

  

  Living in a crowded megalopolis poses all sorts of challenges and pitfalls for owners of fancy cars. Obviously heavy traffic, potholed streets, and belligerent bicycle messengers are major causes for concern, but even these pale in comparison to this one seemingly simple conundrum: Where do you park? In cities filled with older construction like New York and London, street parking is the norm…if you can find it. Newer urban living edifices tend to have parking garages in the basement, but there’s still the specter of door dings and rusty water dripping from overhead pipes looming large. And if you forget something in your car and live on one of the upper floors, it’s a long elevator ride down and back up, and there’s a good chance you’ll run into that loaded widow who lives in the penthouse with that stinkeye-giving Pomeranian she named after her dead husband. Awkward pauses ahoy.

  If only there was a way to put a garage next to each individual apartment. Well, as it turns out, there is a way to do exactly that. And as you can see in the videos below of a new apartment tower in Singapore, it’s just as cool as you think.

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• The Top 25 Coolest Garages on Earth

  In Lists / By Tom Anderson / 7 May 2012

  

  We generally try to avoid using this little rest stop on the Information Autobahn as a bully pulpit, but if you have a sweet car, you really should keep it in a sweet garage. No, we’re not asking you to erect a 10,000 square foot temple of zoom that has diamonds mixed in the floor concrete and mahogany wall paneling with gold leaf detailing, but we are asking you to refrain from parking your Ferrari, Bentley or whatever next to the Great Wall of Pool Toys. You know, something you wouldn’t be ashamed of your fellow gearheads seeing.

  This is not to say, however, that you shouldn’t build a Garage Mahal if you have the resources and desire to do so. Not a day goes by, in fact, that we don’t fantasize about our idea of the ultimate garage that we would build if we were up to our foreheads in f*ck-you money. Of course, there are lots of people who have already made those dreams a reality. Here then, in no particular order, are shots of the 25 most amazing garages on this (and possibly any other) planet. Who knows? Maybe they’ll help lower your productivity, too.

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• Kre House By Takuya Tsuchida Elevates Lamborghini Countach Right Into Living Room

  In Design / By Ari Cox / 28 March 2010

  

  Over the years we’ve seen a fair number of ultimate garages that have quickened our pulses -  everything from a Porsche 911 Turbo hidden beneath a garden to architectural marvels that integrate home and garage for museum-quality automobile displays. Some car domiciles have been like something out of Batman while others are fit to grace covers of high-design publications like Dwell. 

  While we definitely appreciated the clean modern aesthetics of Architecture Digest and Maserati’s Ultimate Garage winner Holger Schubert’s Brentwood home, the masterpiece just completed by well-known Japanese architect Takuya Tsuchida raises the game up no less than two notches.

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• Secret Garage – Ultimate Hidden Hideout for Porsche 911

  In Offbeat / By Ari Cox / 23 January 2010

  

  Every now and then we come across a garage that captures our hearts and imagination. This secret garage is one of the coolest that we’ve seen. Even though the live-in Maserati Ultimate Garage was an architectural marvel, this particular hideaway would make James Bond jealous. Check out the stop-motion images of its hydraulic motor dropping the roof down flush with the ground.

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• Maserati Has Found the Ultimate Architectural Garage in the United States (VIDEO)

  In Auto News / By Ari Cox / 27 July 2009

  

  Maserati of North America, in a partnership with Architecture Digest, has just completed a nationwide search for the finest architectural garages in America. There were two categories for the competition which included EXISTING garages and CONCEPT garages. The concept garages are cool and all, but you almost need to be a building contractor to understand the schematic drawings, so we have chosen to focus on the existing car shacks. The winner of this category is none other than Holger Schubert (Archisis Inc.) in Los Angeles, CA. Below is the press release about his uber-smooth garage:

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