Designing an underground car park that combines Art Deco and the future
Sometimes a project begins with a contradiction. The owner of this Underground car park loves the old – Art Deco, the flowing lines of the 30s, the golden lightness of the Gatsby era. And he loves the futuristic. Clean geometries and spaces that feel like science fiction. Both, at the same time, in the same space – a challenge. The question was not which world wins. The question was: How do you let both win? An exclusive Garage conversion a different kind...
Gatsby @ Enterprise
The Brief Behind This Bespoke Garage Design
Between Gatsby and the Starship Enterprise lie worlds apart — not uncharted ones, but worlds of style. The owner knew this well. He came to us with a vision: his dream garage, realised. His instruction was straightforward — develop several entirely different designs, so he could choose.
We delivered one. Not because we misunderstood the brief — but because we understood it completely. The answer was never one extreme or the other. It was a space that holds both worlds so naturally, so effortlessly, that the question of choosing simply ceases to exist.
This was only possible because UNIQUE Garages was involved from the very beginning — not as an afterthought, but as an integral part of the new build's planning. No retrofitting, no compromise with existing structures. A space conceived, from the first line drawn, exactly as it stands today. Designed by us. Built by us. Because what has been created here simply cannot be bought off the shelf.
A Space That Reinvents Itself. Every Single Day.
Behind each parking space sits a large-format display — seamlessly integrated into the sweeping concrete arches that define the wall. At first, you don't register them as screens. You simply see: a car, and behind it, a world.
Which world that is, the owner decides. Today, a mountain road just after sunrise, the light still soft and golden. Tomorrow, a metropolis at night. The day after, perhaps somewhere beyond this world entirely. And at Christmas? Warmth, stillness, and a little magic. As the image changes, so does the mood of the entire space — and with it, the feeling with which you start your day, or come home.
The imagery can be changed and expanded at any time — through a media server that handles both still images and video. The garage remains the same. And yet it never is.
Between the Enterprise and the Holodeck.
Stand here, look at your cars, and you understand exactly why this space was designed the way it was. The arches, the light, the materials — nothing about this is accidentally futuristic. It is entirely deliberate. You are standing in a room that feels like the grand hall of a starship — and at the same time, like an evening at Gatsby's. Both, simultaneously. No contradiction.
And then there is the window. Floor-to-ceiling, frameless, uncompromising. Beyond it: a landscaped light well. Green, stillness, natural light — the real world. Trekkies will know exactly what this is: the Holodeck. Flanked by two floating onyx luminaires — slender columns, designed exclusively for this space, framing the view like a portal to another world.
Light as Language
Every car has its own stage. Flush-mounted light strips trace the outline of each parking space — driveable, understated, yet impossible to ignore. They give each car a contour, a presence, a place of its own. Above, this same form is echoed in the bespoke ceiling fixture that illuminates each space from above with quiet precision. Floor and ceiling speak the same language.
At the centre of the space, a large-format translucent light ceiling spans the room — not a fixture, but a full-surface field of light that bathes the entire space in an even, warm glow. Bright, inviting, generous. Gatsby would have loved it.
A Lobby, Not a Garage
Bespoke Garage design at this level doesn't begin with fittings. It begins with attitude.
The wall cladding in this space does something no one expects of a private underground garage: it gives the room character. Vertical panels, carefully composed, lend the walls a structure and warmth that speaks more of a hotel lobby or a private boutique than a space beneath the ground. Standing here, you don't think of concrete and exhaust. You think of rooms you want to spend time in.
The concrete columns — structurally necessary, so often a designer's compromise — became sculptures. Finished in automotive lacquer, staged with light. The bespoke wall lights echo the same design language, completing the space as a unified whole.
The result is a dream garage that is neither one extreme nor the other. Not a museum. Not a starship. But both — in a harmony quite unlike anything seen before.
For us, bespoke garage design means more than choosing materials, lighting or decorative details. It is the complete development of a private automotive space — from spatial concept, interior architecture and lighting design to media integration, technical planning and precise execution. Every decision is made around the cars, the architecture and the way the owner wants to experience the space. Nothing more, nothing less. Let's talk.
