Campus Architecture Database: Southwest Parking Garage Complex

University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

Building Type: Mixed Use

Construction Type: New

Cost: $20-million

Square Footage: 323,000

Architect: PGAL

Contractor: James A. Cummings Inc.

Opened: 2009

This complex includes a six-level, 313,000-square-foot parking garage with 950 spaces and an attached, two-story office building for the university’s transportation and parking services staff. Designed to meet LEED platinum criteria, it was located on a diagonal with the offices facing the street to make the structure seem less intimidating.

(Photos: Top—Mark Surloff; bottom—George Cott)

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