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Parking Garage

Driving a car isn’t the greenest of activities, but the Ballet Valet Parking Garage and Retail Center in Miami Beach, designed by Arquitectonica, puts a sustainable face on it. The building includes street-level shops, a restored Art Deco façade and six parking levels concealed behind a trellised, carbon-dioxide-absorbing planting of Clusia guttifera, Conocarpus erectus, serecius and Scaevola frutescans. Palm trees planted along the sidewalk provide shade. It may be a garage-mahal, but it’s a green one. —Arlene Hirst

Credit: Dan Forer, Courtesy of Arquitectonica

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