Comments on: Maserati’s Garage Competition Winners

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By: arc

arc — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:58:01 +0000

extremly unuseable. if you consider that this is not a house with garage because people who drive maserati have bigger house than this is, this is probably only the garage for the car. so, when will you have the time to walk from your hose, leave kids and wife, go to garage, sit there and watch TV? and imagine you arrive with muddy car…
and, talking about garage: on pictures, it looks quite good, with nice proportions, colours and lighning, but on the video, you don’t even have enough place to open doors properly, hole place seems badly designed.
by the way, maserati could work more on interiors of cars, i found quattroporte astonishing, but interior of granutismo is disappointing in class of bentleys, mercs etc:)

By: Andrew Geber

Andrew Geber — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:23:18 +0000

OMG I so want this, only with a 911 Turbo in YELLOW

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By: Jedi

Jedi — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:18:11 +0000

Yea but what about driving IN? The engine would still be on, wouldn’t it?

By: Nikola

Nikola — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:22:47 +0000

Relax Lasse. Next year it will be open new competition with title: Maserati, my wife. Design for a bedroom.
:-)

By: Kitchen Gallery

Kitchen Gallery — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:36:02 +0000

Maserati organized a competition to search for the finest architectural garages; this is what they got: http://bit.ly/15OmmB RT @designmilk

By: Lasse Lyhne

Lasse Lyhne — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:25:35 +0000

Why did’nt I see this competition….?

DAMN…..

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:47:18 +0000

So, was the silver Masarati Coupe the winner’s PRIZE of this competition?

By: Ole_Paikkonen

Ole_Paikkonen — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:15:01 +0000

He need a bike :D

By: James UK

James UK — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:23:45 +0000

In answer to your question – no, I’m not the owner of the garage, and I’m not taking things personally, I’m just really interested in this project. I have been replying to posts looking for some other intelligent reviews and discussions about the project.

By: Nikola

Nikola — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:34:48 +0000

Ok, I was wrong about Michael Jackson, this kid reminds me of Bruno’s kid :-) A nice accessory to make an ambient while photographing.
And few more questions:
- Trump has a jet, Foster has helicopter, Zaha will buy zeppelin, where should they watch TV with their kids :-))))
- what if the owner gets back drunk and hits the glass?
- if the owner looses his money and buys old and cheap car?
- is the car the “wife” in this “family”?
- Are you “James UK” the owner of the garage? :-)
Because you get things too much personal and answer to everyone.

By: James UK

James UK — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:28:34 +0000

This comment is very opinionated, without much consideration of the context.

I don’t think that designing a garage in which to best appreciate the car is ‘freaky’, and definitely not relevant to any opinions you have about Michael Jackson. Seriously, where did that come from!?

Your comments make me very confused as to why you bother reading architectural reviews like this, if you harbor opinions like “the car should be a tool, not a fetish”, even more so when you think that creating an interesting space within which to contain the car is a ‘fetish’. This is the very crux of what modern day architecture addresses.

And out of interest, what makes you think that this child will be exposed to any more pollutants than any other child? A child is pictured in this space near a parked car, which will not be started until it is outside; it is pictured here to show how this space can be inhabited and enjoyed, it is hardly an indication that this child will be confined to this space.

By: walther

walther — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:24:59 +0000

Can someone tell me what the name is of the chair standing on the left?

By: Nikola

Nikola — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:01:10 +0000

Kids should live near nature, pets and other kids. But this one will be near CO1.
This reminds me of Michael Jackson and his kids (when they were babies) when he was doing freaky things.
The car should be tool, not a fetish.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:00:32 +0000

yes, i have to agree about this concept winner. i was a contestant in the competition and i thought that my project, or some of the more conceptual and better laid out projects would win, but this “conceptual” project due not even correctly work and is poorly produced. i pity the judges for their lack of judgement and taste. the winning project seems very elementery and not very well developed. too bad for maserati, i thought that they wanted a progressive garage that represented their company and car, what a shame.

By: Maqbul

Maqbul — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:25:33 +0000

Reading: "Maserati’s Garage Competition Winners | ArchDaily" (http://twitthis.com/8itb3x)

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:36:57 +0000

people mentioning the fumes within the building obviously didnt read or understand the project.

By: James UK

James UK — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:16:59 +0000

There is a lot of comments about the existing garage, but few about the concept… What do people think of it?

Personally, I’m very skeptical about the practicality, success, and even the reasoning behind the concept.

From reading the annotations, I think the designer intended the turntable to reverse the direction of the car for departure, which obviously wouldn’t happen – in my opinion, the turntable would very quickly lose it’s novelty (if it ever had any) and become an inconvenience. More importantly however, I don’t see what this costly and clumsy mechanism really achieves in terms of better presenting the car as a piece of art to be admired; of course it physically brings the car inside, but it’s a very superficial gesture. As someone else has commented, we have no idea what the space the car would sit in is like, and I can’t work out how the sketchup image relates to the project.

I am completely baffled as to how this ‘concept’ managed to win this competition; it has absolutely no substance, explained or implied, and even the supposed inspiration that is written about seems retrospectively added in a hopeless attempt to justify the design.

By: Lazar

Lazar — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:55:08 +0000

Drive-in home cinema :)… nice… I didn’t see entering the garage-just leaving(does the street outside has the same lift :). This is also sustainable project – you don’t need sofa -you allready have in the car.