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Originally Posted by Tech House
The podium type of design is so odd looking, but I've yet to see one of the projects where there's ground-level retail with parking starting on the next floor up. Maybe that's not so bad, other than the appearance from a distance.
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Instead of a podium, Colorado Tower concealed their parking garage as part of the glass facade of the building - you can only tell that they have parking levels above the ground floor retail from the 2 sides of the building where the parking level ventilation is:
Source: CorvairKeith's post to the Colorado Tower thread. Click to see all the photos:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...&postcount=452