Hasta La Ideas

The problem with owning five exotic sportscars is that you can only irritate your neighbors with them one at a time. But a Swiss architecture firm has used design to solve this common problem with this extremely bad-ass concrete garage.

Built into the mountains of Herdern, Switzerland, near the German border, the owner can now ensure the rest of the village can see every last Porsche through enormous panes of glass.

There appears to be only standard lighting within the garage; I’d have taken the more extreme step of installing powerful strobes that could illuminate each bay in a random pattern at nighttime. I’d also ensure the structure wasn’t watertight, in case a neighbor retaliated by trying to fill the space up with a hose.

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