Leicester, Auto Magic Car Park, Lee Circle c.1965
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L144087
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Situated behind the Palais de Dance, off Humberstone Gate, and incorporating an early supermarket and ten pin bowling facility, the six levels of Lee Circle car park were intended to relieve the city of what even in the early 60s was becoming a problem: an excess of the motor car. Multi-storey car parks are, like bungalows, notoriously difficult to design, but the tremendous horizontality of the protective concrete walls produces a dramatic, almost nautical response to a difficult brief.
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