Project Info
PADRES PARKADE
San Diego, CA
The San Diego Padres developed the Padres Parkade to provide parking for their new home at Petco Park. The full-block parking structure, with a 1,000-space capacity, is wrapped with retail lease space and housing to create a lively urban environment and generate revenue during the off-season. Studio E designed the parking structure to architecturally relate to the urban warehouse district and as an extension of the ballpark experience. Escalators and elevators are grouped near the ballpark gates to provide a glimpse of the activity within. A diaphanous screen reveals or conceals circulatory activity within the ballpark-facing façade depending on the time of day or lighting. Thin, single-sided mixed residential and retail buildings, utilizing the same post-tensioned concrete construction as the garage, skin the otherwise-blank parking structure walls.
2000 American Institute of Architects San Diego Citation of Recognition
Photos by James Bradley
Architect of Record: IPD Architects
