The top floor , offer stunning city and ocean views , boniface weddings and yoga classes . Above that is the proprietor ’s private penthouse apartment . The flooring below showcase Rolls Royces , Ferraris and Bentleys . Welcome to Miami ’s Modern $ 65 million public parking service department .
The service department , a joint endeavor by a local developer and world - renowned computer architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron , helps alleviate South Beach ’s chronic parking trouble . But not withouta ( large ) dash of the city ’s somewhat characteristic prodigality .
What they produce , in early 2010 , was all those things : a service department with floor peak of up to 34 foot , three times the norm ; a fall upon interior stairway , with artwork imbed in its base ; precarious looking ( and feel ) ledge that trust on industrial - strength cable to contain back cars and people ; and a methamphetamine hydrochloride regular hexahedron that domiciliate a interior decorator clothing store , perhaps the first in the centre of a parking service department .

In a final flourish , the architects make a soaring top floor that double as an event space , with obliterable parking barriers . It can be rent for about $ 12,000 to $ 15,000 a night .
Parking in the lot unremarkably costs $ 4 an 60 minutes , as match to about a dollar an 60 minutes for municipal lots , but for many , especially the owners of luxury cars , it ’s deserving it . Douglas Sharon , a fiscal adviser , parks his gray-headed Ferrari in the service department several times a workweek . “ I would n’t even believe of parking anywhere else when I ’m downtown , ” he order the New York Times . You know what they say — your car ’s only as nice as the garage you park it in . Oh , they do n’t say that ? Then they should . [ NYT ]
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