Piteaa Parking House
Piteaa Parking House
Henning Larsen
YEAR
2014
LOCATION
Piteå, Sweden
TYPE
Transport + Infrastructure › Parking
The Swedish city of Piteå, located about 130 km below the Arctic Circle, wanted a new parking garage but also got a sledding hill, an amphitheater and a large lantern.
The project ‘Stadsberget’ (Swedish for ‘city mountain’) was designed by White Arkitekter in cooperation with Henning Larsen and has become a unique meeting place and tourist attraction in the city centre.
The five storey parking garage accommodates 228 new parking spaces but it is its other functions that became the talk of the town. During the summer it serves as a popular meeting place with lush greenery and flowers planted on the hill.
The slope is designed as an amphitheater where people can enjoy the evening sun. It has already been used for music events, for instance.
But as the snow falls, it becomes a slope that delights children and adults with a sledge or a cup of warm chocolate on the staircase.
