Bicycle-loving Amsterdam has created an underground bike parking storage that appears immediately impressed by the design language of the Apple Retailer.
The Apple Retailer’s trendy aesthetic depends on clear traces and many wooden on show, producing a heat and welcoming retail expertise. The everyday public parking storage is often the antithesis of Apple, with soiled concrete, darkish corners, dim lighting, and a decidedly utilitarian really feel.
In Amsterdam, architects appeared to take inspiration from the previous to create a powerful bicycle storage to assist resolve parking points within the metropolis. Amsterdam Central Station opened up a pair of garages in early 2023, able to holding hundreds of bicycles.
One in all two new additions to Amsterdam Central, the Ijboulevard bike storage designed by VenhoevenCS, provides neat rows of bicycle racks, inside a big and lengthy underground building that’s dominated by wooden panelling. As proven in images by Sebastiaan de With, the power makes use of curved items of wooden and sensible lighting decisions.
The designers have seemingly produced a storage that would not look misplaced hooked up to an Apple Retailer. Furthering the closeness to the Apple Retailer, there’s additionally a revolving door that’s considerably paying homage to the round hydraulic elevator of the Fifth Avenue Apple Retailer.
Sebastiaan de With
The theme of the storage is “water” as features of the 2 garages are constructed underwater. The second storage exchanges the wooden in favor of a a lot cleaner white look, however with parts that trace that the power is underneath a river, similar to porthole-like ceiling decorations.
Sebastiaan de With
Regardless of the extraordinarily upmarket nature of the garages, they don’t seem to be costly to make use of. Since they’re supposed as a strategy to scale back the variety of bikes saved on streets and assist tidy up the roads whereas encouraging their use, storing a motorbike on the garages is free for the primary 24 hours.
After the primary day, the associated fee is a really reasonables 1.35 euros ($1.48) per day.