If you've got a Porsche Spyder like this one, maybe you'd hate to be parted from it even temporarily.This new weekly feature focuses on a single thing that made our radar at Homes & Gardens of the Northwest this week, because it's either way cool or way crazy. Or both. And since one person's cool is another person's crazy, we'll offer you a chance to vote on which category the thing falls in.
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Porsche Design Tower:
We've seen a design for a
. Now comes a project at what you might call the opposite end of the spectrum, one dedicated to maintaining that deep bond between human and car. The Miami Herald reports:
Pull over into the designated space. Turn off the engine. And enjoy the oceanfront view as you escalate in a glass elevator that takes you, while you are sitting in your car, to the front door of your apartment.
No, this is not the latest Disney ride.
The $560 million Jetsonesque tower will rise in Sunny Isles Beach as part of a collaboration between Germany-based Porsche Design Group and a local developer, Gil Dezer. It likely will be the world's first condominium complex with elevators that will take residents directly to their units while they are sitting in their cars.
"You don't have to leave your car until you are in front of your apartment," said Juergen Gessler, CEO of Porsche Design Group.
Here is how it will work: After the resident pulls over and switches off the engine, a robotic arm that works much like an automatic plank will scoop up the car and put it into the elevator. Once at the desired floor, the same robotic arm will park the car, leaving the resident nearly in front of his front door. Voila, home!
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