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1111 Lincoln Road located between Alton Road and Lincoln Road functions not only as a parking garage but also as a retail space. The building becomes an outstanding sculpture and a vertical extension of Lincoln Road. The 1111 and the Bank of America building, between Washington Avenue and Lincoln Road, delineates the beginning and the end of the broad pedestrian access of Lincoln Road, and creates a vertical balance on both edges.

The 1111 Lincoln Road becomes a sculpture representing the already existing ones along Lincoln Road. The Lapidus’ sculptures are linear and have angles; the columns, in some of them, as they are in the fountain sculpture, in the middle of Lincoln Road, are in angles as the columns in the parking garage. The columns help remove the image of a parking garage by giving people an illusion of being fragile and light, the opposite of its actual use.

In the second floor, there is a sculpture that represents the unusual structure of the building and enhances the already given illusion of fragility and lightness of the 1111. The ends of each concrete slab are thin, so they produce the false impression that the structure of the building is composed of the same thin flat concrete slabs used in the different pavilions through Lincoln Road. Therefore, it continues the same language vertically.

To maintain the idea of having canopies, the slab in the second floor is the canopy for the storefronts.

The parking garage becomes a vertical extension of Lincoln Road by having retail spaces in different levels. The ground floor integrates the pedestrian access inside the building with the hallway crossing it. The same idea of having a garden in Lincoln Road gets carried away to the end of the hallway, where they have a small garden.

The hallway invites people to go in because the storefront wraps inside the hallway, and the grand stair is at the beginning of the hallway. The stairs encourages people to explore the other floors because starting from the second floor, the staircase was designed in an unusual shape, and it merges each floor. In the fifth floor, there is another retail space, and in the seventh floor, there is a restaurant. The 1111 Lincoln Road is a mix-use building that continues Lincoln Road vertically and portrays its unique characteristic.1111 Lincoln Road located between Alton Road and Lincoln Road functions not only as a parking garage but also as a retail space. The building becomes an outstanding sculpture and a vertical extension of Lincoln Road.