Among the "starchitects" who have designed garages are Frank Gehry; Herzog & de Meuron, Arquitectonica, Enrique Norten and Perkins & Will.
Paul Goldberger, in his critique of Herzog and de Meuron's new parking structure in Miami Beach, mentions a few great architects who have struggled with designing garages (The Sky Line, August 9th).
At least three functioning town-house garages remain in New York, including those of Lewis Morris and the banker George F. Baker, who had Delano & Aldrich design a garage wing for his Georgian-style house at Park and 93rd.
From the text and photos, Mr. Romano was able to design new garage doors that matched the originals.
The Pennsylvania Railroad was beginning to groan under the maintenance costs of its station, and in the same year it retained Tichy to design a garage for 923 cars and a seven-story addition over the southeast court of the station.
The consulting engineers from New York City who designed the garage were not involved in the construction inspection.
Delano & Aldrich also designed a garage for the Straights, a complementary building at 162 East 92nd Street, which is still standing.
Stephen V. DeSimone, president of DeSimone Construction Engineers, the New York City-based company that designed the garage, also declined to comment in detail on what might have caused the collapse.
"It was ironic," said Ms. Sapey, who designed the garage of Hotel Silken Puerta América Madrid, a five-star hotel famous as a showcase for some of the world's top architects.
Because the needs of such owners are complex, designing a garage to last the ages is not simple.
